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New Hampshire Preview

CORNELIUS, N.C. — No. 00 Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota driver Brett Moffitt hopes to break his string of three consecutive second-place finishes Friday night in the penultimate K&N Pro Series East race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
 
Moffitt is second in the standings trailing leader Max Gresham by 65 points. The 19-year-old Grimes, Iowa native, ran second at the “Magic Mile” in the spring leading 29 laps. While Moffitt has never visited victory lane at NHMS, his MWR team took home two wins at the track in 2010 with driver Ryan Truex. In addition to his victories at Greenville Pickens and Iowa Speedways, Moffitt has finished second in the last three races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Columbus Motor Speedway and Greenville Pickens Speedway. 
 
MOFFITT ON NHMS: “We’re looking to improve on our last run at New Hampshire in the spring. We looked at a few different areas we can improve upon, and I think we can make some gains there. Hopefully that will be enough to get us the win this weekend. We’ve been close there so many times, but we’ve just never been able to make that trip to victory lane.”

MOFFITT ON WINNING: “We’ve had a streak of second-place finishes lately and that’s been good, but second isn’t winning and that’s what we come here to do. We feel like we’ve been the car to beat at most every track we’ve shown up at this year, but some bad luck has taken us out of position to capitalize on the win. We really need things to go our way and run smoothly these final races of the season. We just need to run up front, have some good luck and it will be clean sailing from there on out.”

MOFFITT ON MWR: “We’re starting to close in on the end of the season and looking back our season went really well performance-wise. We hit some bad luck, but we had good runs and solid finishes. We all work well together and have good chemistry which is important. It’s been a great year. We’re looking to finish strong, and hopefully we’ll all get to work together again.”

GRECI ON WORKING WITH MOFFITT: “The driving part of our year has been exceptional. Brett has done a great job. We have been in a bad spot a couple of times, but he’s come around. His strong point is that we see no fatigue in him, even on longer races. His work ethic here has really helped him, and it’s showing on the track.”

NOTES
 
- Moffitt owns six career victories in 31 East Series starts including 2011 wins at Greenville Pickens and Iowa Speedway. 
 
- Moffitt has led 384 laps of the season’s 1,463 so far. He owns two wins and three second-place finishes in 2011.  
 
- Moffitt’s crew chief Mike Greci bids for his fifth East Series title in 2011. Greci won titles with Ryan Truex in 2009 and 2010 and with Mike Stefanik in 1997 and 1998. 
 
- New Hampshire Motor Speedway serves as Granby, Conn. Native, Mike Greci’s home track. 
 
- SPEED-TV will televise the race on Sept. 29 at 7 p.m.