Bebida Beverage Company (BBDA)

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I know this has nothing to do with selling beverages, but I thought I'd give everyone an update on the Truck Series progress. Feel free to say "who cares?" I care because I'm a race fan regardless of DLR/BW's involvement.

In today's first practice, neither the 01 Koma Unwind truck nor the Potencia 00 truck participated.

In today's final practice leading up to the qualifying @ 9:30am Saturday morning, the 00 Potencia Truck was still MIA, but Carl Long practiced in the 01 Koma Unwind Truck and chalked up a time 3+ seconds and 15+ MPH slower than the fastest time, placing him 37th out of 38 trucks. Of course they do have time to improve the truck(s) prior to tomorrow's qualifying, so this is no absolute indicator.

For tomorrow's qualifying, the 00 Potencia truck, apparently now driven by 'Chase Miller' will be the 25th truck to attempt to qualify. The 01 Koma Unwind Truck will make its attempt 32nd. Both trucks are required to qualify on time, which means they don't get a free pass as a result of their points position after 5 races in 2009 (since the teams didn't exist). The field for a NCWTS race starts with 36 trucks, so they only need to finish ahead of the last three in order to start the race.

Here is a little info about the new driver listed for the 00 Potencia truck:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_Miller

He also has a website, but it's not up to date.

http://www.chasemiller.net/

Here is his record driving in the NASCAR Truck series:

http://www.nascar.com/drivers/dps/cmiller02/truck/index.html

Good luck to both the DLR/BW Trucks this weekend.