Jack Sprague and the NetZero HiSpeed
Racing team head to Chicagoland Speedway for their first NASCAR Winston Cup start
on the 1.5 -mile speedway this weekend. Crew Chief Tony Furr talks about what
it takes to be successful in Chicago.
FURR ON CHICAGOLAND SPEEDWAY…"You have to have horsepower and you
have to handle well in order to be successful in Chicago. Handling well is
probably the biggest issue. You have to really handle good and have a good
aero package. The track has a couple of years on it now and a couple of hard
winters up there are pretty tough. It will probably widen out, as far as groove
wise. It's probably lost a little bit of grip from what it used to have. It
will be a little warm when we go up there therefore that takes away some of
the grip too.”
FURR ON PREPARATION FOR THE LONG STRETCH AHEAD…"We've built some
new cars and the cars that we have built here in the last few months have really
turned out to be pretty good cars, especially for tracks like Chicago. It takes
a lot of aero and we have a lot of aero on our cars now. We've worked real
hard the last couple of months to prepare ourselves and right now we have 16
cars ready to go. We're in pretty good shape. You've just got to have all your
cars ready, everything prepared and not just halfway.
"We spent quite a bit of time in the wind tunnel lately. Pontiac has
been very good to us. The new wind tunnel up here in Mooresville, Aerodyne,
has been very convenient for us and we have been in there quite a bit over
the last month-and-a-half."
JACK SPRAGUE WINSTON CUP CAREER STATS…
TOTAL STARTS: 23
FIRST CAREER START: 1996 Dura Lube 500, Phoenix International Raceway,
No. 52 Pedigree Chevrolet,
Started 34th, Finished 23rd - Running
BEST QUALIFYING: 5th - 2003 Coca-Cola 600, Lowe’s Motor Speedway
BEST FINISH: 14th - 2003 Daytona 500, Daytona International Speedway,
No. 0 NetZero Pontiac,
Started 24th, Finished 14th – Running
MOST RECENT START: 2003 Pepsi 400 – Daytona International Speedway,
Started 35th, Finished 31st – Running
CAREER EARNINGS: $1,265,731
ABOUT NETZERO…
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value-priced Internet access services through its NetZero, Juno and BlueLight
Internet consumer
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prices of its major competitors and are available in more than 6,000 cities across
the United States and Canada. The company is headquartered in Westlake Village,
Calif., with offices in New York City, San Francisco and Hyderabad, India. United
Online’s common stock is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the
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