Ron Young Memphis Advance

Memphis Motorsports Park has been the site of some of the highest points of Ron Young’s NASCAR Busch Series career. He’s looking to add another rung of success this weekend when the Busch Series invades West Tennessee for the Sam’s Town 250 in the Memphis suburb of Millington.

 

It’ll be the third race of the season for Young, who raced at Martinsville and Gateway in July. Saturday’s race, which will be broadcast on NBC and MRN Radio, will start just past 2 p.m.

 

“It’s think that it’s gonna be a real good deal, I feel real good about it,” Young said.

 

In four races at Memphis, Young has qualified 17th or better twice. He’s finished outside the top 25 just once with 14th place finish in 2004 being the best result for Young and his RB1 Motorsports team despite having a very limited budget to work with.

 

“You’ve just got to stay out of trouble. You have to have a good day in the pits. You can be running good and come in and go out of the pits in the back,” Young said. “Normally all the bad stuff happens in the back.”

 

Young will be taking the same No. 71 Chevrolet back to Memphis that qualified a career-best 13th last year before having his day ended prematurely when he was caught up in an accident. Unlike the car that was taken to Memphis last year, this one as a 2006 body on it.

 

In fact, this car is the same one that Young took to Gateway in July where internal problems crippled the No. 71 Chevrolet to a finish of 32nd after starting 38th.

 

However, the problem with the car has been diagnosed since Gateway, giving Young and his team of mostly volunteers plenty of optimism for the upcoming weekend.

 

“Everybody’s real fired up about it, they really are,” Young said.