No. 19 Menards/Barracuda Pumps Toyota GR Supra News and Notes:
· JONES AT LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY: Brandon Jones will make his 11th NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) career start at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (LVMS) Saturday behind the wheel of the No. 19 Menards/Barracuda Pumps Toyota GR Supra for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR). Jones has earned two top-five and seven top-10 finishes at Vegas, including a third-place finish in the spring race last year.
· AUTO CLUB RECAP: Jones qualified third and searched for rear grip over stage one and in stage two was spun by contact from another competitor. After a pit stop for four fresh tires and fuel, Jones raced his way up to second to finish stage two. Jones led the field to the green for the final stage and settled into a top-10 run until contact on the second overtime attempt to finish sent his car hard into the sand barrels at the end of pit road, ending his race.
· FOLLOW ALONG: Follow along for updates and a behind-the-scenes look at Jones 2022 NXS Season.
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· RACE INFO: Alsco Uniforms 300 at LVMS is scheduled for Saturday, March 5, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. ET. Watch and listen live on FoxSports1, Sirius XM Channel 90 and PRN Radio.
From the Cockpit:
Brandon Jones: “We’ve been really good there and felt like we could win multiple times and then we show up sometimes and we are off just a little on speed. I don’t know what the right combination for Vegas is, the track can either be super cold or super hot depending on what time of the year you go, so weather is always a factor. You move around a lot there, you tend to start on the bottom and sometimes you see it go to the fence, sometimes the middle, so it’s tough to read where that track will be. I know where to start out running but then it is tough to know where it will go in the race and I think that’s probably the biggest challenge of Vegas. Vegas has a super smooth surface, but it wears tires pretty fast, you get a decent amount of fall off over the course of a run, so managing that and I think you see a lot of dirt racers do really good there because you have to chase the rubber a lot. That’s one thing I’m doing this year is dirt racing, trying to get that vision and mind, looking for different areas of the track that are a little bit better. That’s one thing Christopher (Bell) was always so big on when he was in the Xfinity car here was being able to tell where rubber was and being able to move around, so even now just testing those cars I can already start to see where that’s going to translate and help me out some.”
TIL NEXT TIME, I AM STILL WORKING ION MY REDNECK!
