Fuel & Tires: Travis Kvapil keeps on truckin' - Gazettextra
Back in March, his NASCAR Sprint Cup car and the trailer that contained it were stolen from a hotel parking lot near the Atlanta Motor Speedway the night before the team was due to qualify. Since then, Kvapil has been running for a few different teams in the Cup Series while running full-time in the Camping World Truck Series. On Saturday, Kvapil will attempt to qualify for Sprint Cup's Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in the No. 30 Chevrolet for the Motorsports Group owned by Curtis Key. Ron Hornaday and Jeff Green both drove the car earlier in the season, and Josh Wise is scheduled to run some races along with Kvapil in the coming weeks and months. Kvapil said the team bought some cars from Stewart-Haas Racing and the team's crew chief is Dave Fuge, who was Kvapil's crew chief when Kvapil made his championship-winning run in the truck series in 2003. Kvapil believes having Fuge in that... “The crew chief has to believe what I say, and the crew chief and the driver need to believe in one another, and we have that. Kvapil attempted to qualify the car at Bristol a couple of weekends ago but ended up a few 10ths of a second short and didn't make the race. He believes the team has a pretty good shot at making Darlington as well as a few more races down the road, but he doesn't think the average race fan appreciates the level of competition in the Sprint Cup Series. Source: www.gazettextra.com
