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Press Releases by Deborah Renshaw
July 11, 2005
Deborah Renshaw Collects Top-20 Finish Despite Illness
Sparta, KN – It seems as if there is nothing
worse than not feeling your best when you know you have a
job to do. Deborah Renshaw found that out all to well as she
suffered from a stomach virus this week as the NASCAR Craftsman
Truck Series visited the popular Kentucky Speedway. Regardless,
Deborah steered her No. 8 CallSource DODGE to a solid 19th
place finish in the running of the Built Ford Tough 225 in
her home state.
“I am not sure if I have ever felt worse in my life,”
stated Deborah. “I may have spent as much time this weekend
in the infield care center as I did in my truck. They pumped
three big bags of fluid into me and that really seemed to
help by the time race time rolled around. Our truck was tight
all night like I think just about everyone else but we kept
adjusting on it and made it much better for the second half
of the race. Everyone really rallied behind me this week knowing
that I was not feeling my best and that kept my spirits up.”
After posting the ninth fastest time in the practice session
earlier on race day, Deborah would go on to qualify 19th for
the 225-mile event under the lights. The drop of the green
flag would see the Bowling Green, Kentucky native drop back
through the field as she radioed to her crew that her No.
8 DODGE was extremely “tight”. She would hang tough
but would eventually loose a lap to the leaders before a caution
came out and allowed her to come down pit road for service
on lap 47.
The middle portion of the 150-lap event would see Renshaw
slowly gain on the handling of her truck and earn the precious
lucky dog honor on lap 65 which would get her back onto the
lead lap. Another trip down pit road would allow for further
adjustments on her truck and as a result Deborah would find
herself in the 17th position at the 100-lap mark.
After the teams last pit stop under caution on lap 105, Deborah
radioed to her crew that the truck was the best it had been
all night and her lap times showed that to be true. She would
battle for precious positions on the track during the last
portion of the event before receiving the checkered flag in
the 19th spot.
“Considering the events of the whole weekend and how
I felt – I will gladly leave here with another top-20
finish,” said Deborah. “This was a solid team effort
tonight and a run that we needed after struggling the last
few weeks. We had a lot of sponsor people from CallSource
up in the stands and with it being my home state I had a few
friends and family in attendance as well – so getting
a decent finish feels good. I continue to make positive improvements
and really look forward to the second half of the season coming
up. I will enjoy the week off we got and then look to keep
some momentum going when we head to Memphis in a few weeks.”
Renshaw and her BHR2 team will enjoy a week off before heading
to the Memphis Motorsports Park for the running of the O’Reilly
200 under the lights on July 23rd.
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