Brian Brown Q&A – Tucson Marks Start of 2013 Season!

admin | February 18, 2013

(Bill W) February 18, 2013 – A busy 2013 campaign begins this weekend for the Brian Brown Racing Casey’s General Stores/FVP #21 sprint car team. Friday and Saturday the Lucas Oil ASCS National Series will compete at the Tucson International Raceway in Tucson, Arizona. This will mark the beginning of a month and a half away from home for the Grain Valley, Missouri driver.

It looks like you’ll be spending some time on the West Coast to start out the season won’t you?

Last year, we did this too. I really think it helped our program once we got back around home. We have fourteen or fifteen nights planned out there…four with ASCS and eleven or twelve with the Outlaws. We’ll definitely have some tough competition, and we’ll see where we stack up.

That’s a good market for some of your partners, isn’t it?

It’s a great market for FVP, and we have some events lined up for them. We look forward to having their customers and employees out to the racetrack. That’s always fun!

Talk about Tucson a little bit. You’ve had some mixed results there over the years.

It’s a head scratcher when we don’t do well there. It really fits my driving style. It’s a nice big track with sweeping corners. We’ve never been as good as we should have there. We haven’t been there for a year or so. We’ve got a brand new Charlie Garrett engine that I think is going to be a secret to a lot of our success in 2013. We’ll definitely be able to air it out this weekend and see what kind of horsepower we have. I think we’ll get off on the right foot. You can’t win them all if you don’t win the first one.

There is a lot of preparation when you go out on a trip like this away from home for a long time isn’t there?

Yes, there really is. The guys have been working hard this winter. Chad Morgan, my long time crew chief, is back. We’ve brought on Travis Marsch this winter to be our other team member. They’ve been working really hard. Going for six or seven weeks is a pretty big task. You have to make sure you have spares for your spares. I feel Travis may be the missing piece of the puzzle to having a great 2013, instead of just a good one. He has a lot of good experience, and we’re excited that he’s a part of it.

You’ve brought most of your partners back from 2012, correct?

We’re excited that we’ve brought our partners from 2012 on into 2013. We’ve also picked up Zips Energy Seeds, Wolfe Eye Clinic, Kenny’s Components and some other great partners. Brian Brown Racing is growing, and we’re very thankful that those partners have chosen to be with us. We want to make sure they get the exposure that they deserve.

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