Title: Erin to make debut in Busch car at MIS
Jen - August 16, 2005 03:37 PM (GMT)
From NASCAR.com.... but they lied... she's not starting on Saturday lol
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WATKINS GLEN, N.Y -- NASCAR team owner Ray Evernham says he's gotten few surprises in dealing with his newest protégé, former Sprint Car driver Erin Crocker.
Crocker has excelled in a five ARCA RE/MAX Series starts this season -- qualifying and racing at the front and posting four top-10 finishes.
Evernham hopes to have the 24-year-old Wilbraham, Mass., native in a full-time Busch Series program as early as next season, and he confirmed Friday at Watkins Glen International her Busch debut will come this fall.
"We hope to take her full-time Busch Grand National, and we'll know here in the next couple weeks," Evernham said of 2006. "If it's not that program she'll run some Busch, some ARCA and possibly some trucks.
"We're just trying to keep getting her more and more experience."
Crocker's only pavement experience has come in her five ARCA starts -- in which she has a worst result of 12th, in her March debut at Nashville Superspeedway, where she started on the pole.
"I don't know that she's 100 percent ready for a full-time Busch schedule," Evernham said. "But if that opportunity comes up, we're going to capitalize on it and try to do the best that we can."
Evernham said that he hoped to announce within a couple weeks what Crocker's 2005 Busch schedule will be.
"We would have announced what her Busch races are going to be already," Evernham said. "But we're working on a couple programs and when you bring in partners, you want to make sure everything lines up so they can take advantage of it."
Evernham said his biggest delight with Crocker has come out of the driver's seat.
"Other than her personality, I haven't really had any surprises in anything Erin has achieved," Evernham said. "She's got just a great personality to be around, and that's been the most pleasant surprise.
"The thing anymore is that by the time you hire someone to come into your organization, you have an idea of what you want them to be or what you need them to be -- so you're really happy as long as there are no disappointments -- which there usually are some.
"Erin has been everything we knew before we hired her, but she's got just a great personality and a great sense of humor on top of that." |
:clap :clap :clap Can't wait to see her drive it this weekend!
JanvierFireChick43-2 - August 16, 2005 03:49 PM (GMT)
Cheryl - August 16, 2005 04:51 PM (GMT)
Krissy - August 16, 2005 04:54 PM (GMT)
That is so cool! She has got some talent and I bet she will do awesome! :na
Abbey - August 16, 2005 05:21 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (chadwickpreston @ Aug 16 2005, 11:51 AM) |
| Awesome...I agree :clap |
i agree too!
kaseynicole - August 16, 2005 05:29 PM (GMT)
I'm confused....she's not on the entry list for the Busch Race this weekend.
Busch Entry List Peter - August 16, 2005 05:56 PM (GMT)
How does that article indicate Erin's making her Busch debut at MIS? Bill's in the Evernham Busch car this weekend.
colleen313 - August 16, 2005 05:58 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Peter @ Aug 16 2005, 12:56 PM) |
| How does that article indicate Erin's making her Busch debut at MIS? Bill's in the Evernham Busch car this weekend. |
Yeah....I'm completely lost. lol I read the article twice and it only mentions that she will debut in the fall.
Jen - August 16, 2005 06:16 PM (GMT)
It wasn't me, I swear! LOL On NASCAR.com, on the front, it said she'd be starting at MIS. Now they've changed it! Imagine that.. they goofed..
Court - August 16, 2005 06:24 PM (GMT)
I do know for sure that she's racing in the ARCA race at MIS on Friday
kelly - August 16, 2005 08:02 PM (GMT)
SuGaRkAhNe962 - August 17, 2005 12:35 AM (GMT)
aw well either way I love Erin!!!! yay for her running at least the ARCA race!!!!
Lauren - August 17, 2005 01:39 AM (GMT)
go erin, go erin, go go go erin : )
AmeriKahneGirl924 - August 17, 2005 01:53 AM (GMT)
Good luck to Erin this weekend!! :clap
Melissa - August 17, 2005 09:48 AM (GMT)
Scrapbookgirl9 - August 17, 2005 01:48 PM (GMT)
I've been hearing Richmond will be a her Busch debut for awhile now.......don't know if that is true or not though
go Erin!
Peter - August 17, 2005 02:01 PM (GMT)
Erin's name has been removed from the entry list for the ARCA race. Hopefully it was a mistake.
Scrapbookgirl9 - August 17, 2005 02:44 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Peter @ Aug 17 2005, 10:01 AM) |
| Erin's name has been removed from the entry list for the ARCA race. Hopefully it was a mistake. |
I hope so!
I want her to race the ARCA race and get some more experience
StarFire - August 17, 2005 04:49 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (hurrikahned38_9 @ Aug 17 2005, 08:48 AM) |
I've been hearing Richmond will be a her Busch debut for awhile now.......don't know if that is true or not though
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I think your right. Assuming I have the right schedule, her Busch schedule should be:
Richmond
Dover
Kansas
Phoenix
Homestead
Court - August 19, 2005 03:30 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (hurrikahned38_9 @ Aug 17 2005, 10:44 AM) |
| QUOTE (Peter @ Aug 17 2005, 10:01 AM) | | Erin's name has been removed from the entry list for the ARCA race. Hopefully it was a mistake. |
I hope so!
I want her to race the ARCA race and get some more experience
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I just checked and her name wasn't on the list for the practice times.
Peter - August 19, 2005 03:57 AM (GMT)
I wonder why they withdrew? They were definitely on the entry list earlier in the week. It would have been great to see Erin compete against guys like Kraig Kinser and Steve Wallace who are making their ARCA debuts. Plus, there's a handful of decent ARCA regulars and Ken Schrader, too. It would have been a cool race.
I've heard talk that there may be some issues between Betty Crocker (Erin's new sponsor) and Unilever Foods (the sponsor of the EMS 6 Busch car.) There's probably no truth to the the talk, though, and we'll be seeing Erin in the 6 of the 79 later this year in the Busch series. Erin will probably only run one more ARCA race, the final one at Talladega. Last year, Bill ran the 98 with Ray Cook as the driver. So, hopefully Erin races it this year.
fan389 - August 19, 2005 05:19 AM (GMT)
Well darn me for not being able to go to the Richmond Busch race but being able to go to the cup race....I'll still so be watching.
"Go Erin!" :clap
Scrapbookgirl9 - August 19, 2005 11:35 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Peter @ Aug 18 2005, 11:57 PM) |
I wonder why they withdrew? They were definitely on the entry list earlier in the week. It would have been great to see Erin compete against guys like Kraig Kinser and Steve Wallace who are making their ARCA debuts. Plus, there's a handful of decent ARCA regulars and Ken Schrader, too. It would have been a cool race.
I've heard talk that there may be some issues between Betty Crocker (Erin's new sponsor) and Unilever Foods (the sponsor of the EMS 6 Busch car.) There's probably no truth to the the talk, though, and we'll be seeing Erin in the 6 of the 79 later this year in the Busch series. Erin will probably only run one more ARCA race, the final one at Talladega. Last year, Bill ran the 98 with Ray Cook as the driver. So, hopefully Erin races it this year. |
blah, I'd hate it to be a sponsor conflict.......that would suck.
9kaseygirl9 - August 19, 2005 09:34 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (hurrikahned38_9 @ Aug 19 2005, 06:35 AM) |
| QUOTE (Peter @ Aug 18 2005, 11:57 PM) | I wonder why they withdrew? They were definitely on the entry list earlier in the week. It would have been great to see Erin compete against guys like Kraig Kinser and Steve Wallace who are making their ARCA debuts. Plus, there's a handful of decent ARCA regulars and Ken Schrader, too. It would have been a cool race.
I've heard talk that there may be some issues between Betty Crocker (Erin's new sponsor) and Unilever Foods (the sponsor of the EMS 6 Busch car.) There's probably no truth to the the talk, though, and we'll be seeing Erin in the 6 of the 79 later this year in the Busch series. Erin will probably only run one more ARCA race, the final one at Talladega. Last year, Bill ran the 98 with Ray Cook as the driver. So, hopefully Erin races it this year. |
blah, I'd hate it to be a sponsor conflict.......that would suck.
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That would not be cool at all.
Still working on the busch race at Richmond. Hopefully I can go.
Krissy - August 20, 2005 12:20 AM (GMT)
:( That wouldn't be good. Dog nap it.
ReedsPiratePrincess - August 21, 2005 12:07 AM (GMT)
I was so excited when I read that. Then theres the interview with her on Nascar.com. that was pretty cool. she calls ray "uncle ray" lol.
Cant wait to see her racing Busch!