Statesville, N.C. – When David
Ragan was at Texas Motor Speedway one year ago, the rest of the NASCAR
Sprint Cup field was lining up behind him. The big, fast oval in Forth
Worth was the scene of the first of Ragan’s two poles on the 2011
season.
Ragan returns to the 1.5-mile track for Saturday night’s Samsung
Mobile 500 in the No. 34 Ford of Front Row Motorsports. Scorpion Truck
Bed Liners returns to Ragan’s Ford Fusion for the race weekend in a
newly added race to its sponsorship schedule after making its NASCAR
debut in the season-opening Daytona 500. The Cloverdale, Ind.-based
company will also be on the No. 34 car for the Brickyard 400 at
Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Scorpion is the official bed liner, window
film and protective coatings line of Ragan and Front Row Motorsports
“Scorpion is very excited to be working with Front Row Motorsports
and the No. 34 car of David Ragan again in Texas,” said Clayton
Tomasino, CEO of Scorpion. “It’s been great to see the fans embrace our
brand and show their support through social media and elsewhere and we
look forward to that support growing even more.”
Ragan has a history of speed at Texas Motor Speedway. In addition to
claiming the pole in the 2011 spring race, he has earned two top-10 and
seven top-15 finishes in his 10 Cup career starts at the track.
Comments from Scorpion Truck Bed Liners team driver David Ragan heading to Texas:
“It’s great to have Scorpion Truck Bed Liners back on our No. 34 Ford
Fusion. We had them with us down in Daytona for their very first
NASCAR race and we’re excited to have them back. It’s always good to
bring a new sponsor to the sport, and it’s even better when they come
back and say they want to do more. They’ve got some pretty cool
products in their bed liners, window films and other protective
coatings, so we hope to send some new customers their way.
“That orange-and-black paint scheme will look great under the lights
at Texas, too. Night racing is always fun and Texas is such a great
track. It’s such a fast track and it’s one of my favorite tracks to go
to. It’s a tricky racetrack, though. You’ve got to get your car coming
out of the turns really well so you can just put the hammer down and
let your Roush-Yates horsepower take over on the straight-aways. Texas
isn’t necessarily a finesse track but you’ve kind of got to finesse
coming off those turns. It’s not hard to wind up in the wall if you
overdrive it. We’ve all seen that.
“It’s great to go back racing again after the week off. It was great
to have some downtime and spend time with family. I got to go out to
the Masters in Augusta (Ga.) one day last week and that was a great time
and a great experience that I don’t normally get to do every year, even
though I’m from Georgia. Some friends of ours always get tickets every
year, but typically we’re always racing, coming off a race weekend and
getting ready for another race the following weekend. But we had the
off-weekend this year, so this was the first time I had some downtime to
be able to do some of the things that normal people get to do.”
Scorpion Truck Bed Liners to sponsor Ragan at Texas
