| Location: Memphis Motorsports Park, Memphis, Tenn. This weeks race truck for Memphis Motorsports Park is Chassis No. 22-52. Bill Lester drove this truck to a 15th place finish at The Milwaukee Mile earlier in the 2006 campaign. Welcome home Memphis Motorsports Park is the home track of team owners Bill and Gail Davis, who grew up across the river in Arkansas. The Davis first business venture, Bill Davis Trucking, started over 30 years ago and is located in Batesville, Ark. Bill Davis Trucking employs more than 60 people. Autographs anyone? Lester and his Bill Davis Racing teammates will participate in the Craftsman Tools autograph session on the pit lane of Memphis Motorsports Park Friday, July 14, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The autograph session is free to all season ticket holders to MMP. Out and about Lester and his teammates will meet local fans Saturday, July 15, from 4 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. The meet and greet will be located in the Memphis Motorsports Park hospitality tent behind turn four. Listen and Watch The OReilly 200 is scheduled to start at 9:15 p.m. ET Saturday, July 15. It will broadcast live on Speed (TV), MRN (radio) and XM Radio channel 144. Bill Lesters NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results at Memphis Motorsports Park Memphis Motorsports Park Date Start Finish LC/TL Status $Won 7/23/2005 12 35 63/202 Accident $8,115 6/19/2004 23 23 200/200 Running $8,290 6/21/2003 14 26 128/200 Running $8,990 6/22/2002 31 17 200/200 Running $12,065 Starts Poles Wins Top-fives Top-10s LC/TL $Won 4 0 0 0 0 591/802 (73.6%) $37,460 Bill Davis Racing Quotes: Bill Lester on racing at Memphis Motorsports Park: Memphis is all about coming off the corners hard. Easy in and hard off, just your typical short track. I am glad they are going to not have a one-day show, because it give the teams and fans some relief from the heat. Memphis is a place you have to have a solid shock package underneath your truck. There is a bump at the crossover that tends to bottom the truck out, so you need a good shock package to control the truck and keep you in contention. I hope we have luck on our side and get a good finish out of Memphis. I definitely think [crew chief] Doug Wolcott and I are clicking again like we did in 2005. This season has been filled with bad luck and things this race team has no control over. We have had great trucks and have been running toward the front when something bad happens to us. Take last week for example: we were running in the seventh spot when the battery went dead. We knew we had a great piece, but the bad luck bug struck again. We really dont need any good luck; we just dont need any bad luck. More- Bill Lester NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Career Totals Races Wins Poles Top 5s Top 10s DNFs Money Totals 115 0 3 2 6 24 $1,239,651 Bill Lester 2006 Season Totals Starts Wins Poles Top 5s Top Tens DNF Money 12 0 0 0 0 2 $122,810 2006 Bill Lester Craftsman Truck Series Results Date Start Finish LC TL Status Money 2/17/2006 Daytona International Speedway 2 35 43 100 Accident $12,615 2/24/2006 California Speedway 16 15 106 106 Running $13,990 3/17/2006 Atlanta Motor Speedway 18 29 132 135 Running $8,565 4/1/2006 Martinsville Speedway 27 24 250 250 Running $9,940 4/29/2006 Gateway International Raceway 27 30 105 160 Accident $8,795 5/19/2006 Lowes Motor Speedway DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ DNQ 5/27/2006 Mansfield Motorsports Speedway 35 24 250 250 Running $7,340 6/2/2006 Dover International Speedway 8 30 195 200 Running $10,290 6/9/2006 Texas Motor Speedway 26 22 266 268 Running $10,815 6/17/2006 Michigan Speedway 26 32 98 102 Running $9,940 6/23/2006 The Milwaukee Mile 15 15 200 200 Running $8,865 7/1/2006 Kansas Speedway 15 23 167 167 Running $10,265 7/8/2006 Kentucky Speedway 8 28 146 150 Running $11,390 Totals 18.6 25.58 1958 2088 93.8% $122,810 Backstretch Motorsports
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