NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Driver Kyle Busch will be back behind the wheel of the No. 51 Miccosukee Resorts Toyota Tundra for Billy Ballew Motorsports at the Talladega Superspeedway Saturday, October 4th for the running of the Mountain Dew 250 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race.

Busch heads into the 19th race of the 25 race Series season as the favorite on the2.66-mile tri-oval course after picking up his first win there in the Sprint Cup Series this spring. Busch also showed his strength on the superspeedways in the Craftsman Truck Series picking up the second place position at the famed Daytona International Speedway during the series season opener.

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Ergon Racing Talladega Motor Speedway Fast Facts

• The Mountain Dew 250 at Talladega Super Speedway will mark John Andretti’s first Craftsman Truck Series start at the track
• Andretti has 21 Sprint Cup Series starts and one Nationwide Series start at Talladega
• Andretti has one pole (1997, Sprint Cup Series), two top-five and four top-10 finishes in competition at Talladega
• Andretti has one win in Super Speedway competition (1997, Daytona, Sprint Cup Series)
• Ergon Racing Truck Chief J.R. Norris is from Hueytown, Alabama
• As a driver, Norris was track champion at Birmingham International Raceway in the Super Late Model division and was Rookie of the Year in the Southern All-Star Series
• Ergon, Inc. supplied the asphalt used to repave Talladega Super Speedway in 2006

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Shane Sieg took to the track for the running of the Quikliner Las Vegas 350 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race in the 11th place position for the 146 lap event at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway and looked to post a top-10 finish. Unfortunately, Sieg had the air taken off his nose of the No. 51 Miccosukee Resort Tundra causing him to get into the wall. Sieg recovered posting a 19th place finish on the 1.5-mile speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Sieg reported being free in the corners from the start of the event leading to crew chief, Richie Wauters bringing the Tundra down pit lane for service on lap 24 lowering the track bar to help the grip of the truck. Sieg took no tires on the stop putting him in the third place position for the restart on lap 28.

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In his first race driving the Ergon Tundra, John Andretti yielded the No. 15 team’s best finish of the season.  Andretti scored a major comeback in the Qwik Liner 350, overcoming a loose handling truck to take the checkers in fourth-place at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.    The effort marked the team’s first top-five of the season.

In the beginning stages of the race, few would have given Andretti a chance at reaching the top-15.  His truck was “loose, loose, loose” all the way through the turns and preventing him from improving his 23rd place starting position.

Crew chief Doug George called for several adjustments during the preliminary caution periods of the event.  George ordered adjustments to the truck’s track bar, wedge, air pressure and spring rubbers throughout the first half of the race.  “We just couldn’t get it tightened up,” said Andretti.  “We made some whole sale swaps to the Ergon Tundra, and it was still too loose to drive.  I couldn’t touch the gas without it wanting to spin out. We adjusted nearly everything on the truck.  At first it didn’t seem like we were going to fix it, but all of the sudden, it started clicking.”  The team made a major track bar adjustment during the caution period on lap 76 and Andretti’s lap times improved substantially. After the tweak, the Ergon Tundra began running lap times consistent with the leaders.

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