tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52460525764628948942011-07-08T06:22:40.469-04:00Brian "Bubba" Carrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08771925572969219496noreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5246052576462894894.post-5589809135171095672010-06-22T13:56:00.002-04:002010-06-22T13:58:52.202-04:00

Hello all- my name is Rick Viers and I am the new crew chief for the No. 16 Con-way Freight Ford at Roush Fenway Racing. I am very excited at the opportunity I have to work with this team. While I’ve only been on the job for a little over a week, I can see that there are a lot of good people here. Our engineering staff is very strong and we have the opportunity to win races, which we hope to

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Hello to all the Con-way Freight racing fans! My name is Joey Cohen and I am the head engineer on the No. 16 Con-way Freight Ford Fusion driven by Colin Braun in the Nationwide series. I am excited to visit and tell you a little about myself and the activities I perform weekly for the race team as an Engineer.I am 25 years old and have been at Roush Fenway Racing for four years now and am proud

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Hello everyone. My name is Eddie Pardue and I’m the crew chief for the No. 16 Con-way Freight Ford. I just wanted to check in and give you a little bit of insight about how I got to where I am today. I have been at Roush Fenway Racing for eight years and worked as shock technician and spotter on the No. 6 car with Mark Martin prior to becoming a crew chief. When Roush Fenway expanded its

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Hey everyone. I hope you’ve had a good couple of weeks. The trip back from Las Vegas was pretty good. We ran into some weather though around Flagstaff, Ariz., which was a little unexpected. It was snowing, but fortunately, the roads were just wet. We did loose a hubcap somewhere between here and there too, so let us know if anyone sees it! The hardest part about coming back from a trip like

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Well, we got home from Daytona early Sunday morning. It wasn’t exactly the finish we were hoping for, but man those guys worked their butts off to get the car back in order to get some more points. So, I get a night at home and then we head west on Monday. The trip from Charlotte Motor Speedway to California Speedway is 2,445 miles. My co-driver Greg and I will take the southern route (route

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Hey ya'll...Bubba here. Let’s catch up on the last two weeks, which were Texas and Phoenix. First Texas ― we went to Texas this time with higher expectations, thanks to the fact that Colin has been there a few times. I also thought it would be really nice to win in his home state. It was an unusually uneventful race and we managed to drive chassis No. 43 from a 19th starting position to a

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Hey ya'll... Bubba here trying to keep you updated from the past week. We were in Talladega for last week's race and we had very high hopes for a promising weekend. After sitting on the pole in Daytona, we knew that we hoped we would have the truck to beat in Talladega also. The weekend started just as we had expected with Colin capturing his fourth pole of the year. And then the rains came...

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Hey ya'll, Bubba here... buckling down for our last push of the season. First things first... for everyone who missed it, Con-way Freight did announce they will be going to Nationwide racing with Roush Fenway and Colin next season for 18 races. The company was part of the unveiling ceremony with the new Ford Mustang. This definitely put a little extra pep in everyone's step. I am very grateful

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Hey ya'll, Bubba here...trying to catch everyone up on some much needed blogging. I guess first we need to start with the Loudon, NH race. Honestly, there wasn't much too exciting about Loudon. We qualified in the top 10, and finished in the top 10, but we were never really in contention for the win. For some reason this track has always been tough for us. Who knows...it could have been a

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Hey ya'll...Bubba here back from St. Louis and getting ready to head to Loudon, New Hampshire. First let’s wrap up St. Louis. Gateway has never been a favorite, but I was sure things would turn around when Colin put the No. 6 truck on the pole. Things were looking promising for another top-three finish until a late race spin by Colin and then a wreck with Todd Bodine and Matt Crafton that we were

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Hey ya'll... Bubba here, back from the vast cornfields of Iowa. Well, we went to another new track, and scored another third-place finish. The Iowa Speedway is a nicely built race track I look forward to racing at in the future. The fans there were very gracious to have NASCAR visiting their town. Plus, it always helps when you run well in the race. Chassis No. 55 ran so well we decided to do a

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Hey ya'll, Bubba here... We were in Chicago last week, a new track for us in the truck series, and it turned out to be a pretty good run for our team. Colin did a really good job adapting to this track and brought the Con-way Freight True LTLSM Ford F-150 home to a third-place finish. Our trusty chassis no. 43 was definitely the right truck for this track. I can't wait to take this chassis to Las

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Hey ya'll... Bubba here. We need to catch up on the Bristol race, but first I need to give a big congratulations to Dale Duncan for winning the National Truck Driving Championship, and also to Brandon Souder for winning the Rookie of the Year! Well done gentlemen! I know you deserve these accolades. Hopefully we will get to see you at a race sometime soon! Now, on to Bristol... Our Bristol race

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Hey ya'll... Bubba here with another exciting addition to my race blogs. First, let’s catch up on the Nashville race. Chassis No. 43 turned out to be pretty quick in Nashville. Colin Braun sat on the pole for a long time during qualifying before being bumped towards the end by the No. 17 truck. Still, starting outside front row was definitely good for Colin and the team. Our race wasn't a pretty

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Hey ya'll... Bubba here, catching up after a couple weeks of racing. It was tough to get back into the swing of things after a couple weeks off. First we went to Kentucky and Colin showed us our previous momentum had not completely left us. We took chassis No. 60, which had only been run at Texas this year. The race was pretty uneventful for us until 16 laps to go. Somehow we were wrecked under

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Hey ya'll! Bubba here checking in after a long couple of weeks off. First let me wrap up Memphis... The temperatures soared upwards of 100 degrees so it was mostly miserable. I wish I would have kept track of how much water we went through for the weekend. I'm sure it would have been an impressive number, not to mention the amount of money I spent on ice. Colin brought home another top-10 finish

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Hey ya'll... Bubba here with another exciting blog... This week we were in Milwaukee and once again the rains came and they came big. As most of you already know, our race was rained out Friday night due to a torrential storm that came through about an hour before the race. At one point there was about a foot of water right outside the back of my trailer. To say things were flooded is an

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Hey ya'll... Bubba here with a BIG smile on my face! First things first... welcome back to victory lane Con-way Freight! The stars finally aligned and the No. 6 truck got its first victory with Colin behind the wheel. We ran chassis No. 43, which is the same truck that was wrecked by Kyle Busch in Charlotte. Chassis No. 43 was also the same truck that took Travis Kvapil to victory lane in

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Hey ya'll, Bubba here with another exciting addition to my blog. First let me catch you up on the last few weeks... Two weeks ago we were in Dover scheduled to race Friday evening. Once again the skies opened and we were postponed until Saturday evening. While this is pretty normal for the race team, I'm sure it made it difficult for most of our Con-way guests to return on Saturday. Luckily a few

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Hey ya'll... Bubba here checking in after a busy couple of weeks. I guess the first thing we should talk about is the Charlotte race. Everything was finally cookin’ with the truck, the driver, and the pit crew... special thanks to Kyle Busch for bringing all that to an end. I honestly believe we were going to win our first race. But as fate would have it, things didn't quite work out our way.

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Hey there everyone... Bubba here just trying to catch you up from the last couple weeks. My life has had a significant change in the last week. My second son, Tyson Riley Carr, was born Thursday evening. He was a whopping 10.2 pounds! Luckily his delivery went a whole lot better than his brother Zachary's... we had no complications this time. I had forgotten how much work taking care of a newborn

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Hello... Bubba here... just touching base with everyone again before we head to Kansas! First, let's talk about what I have done the past couple of weeks. We had a two-day Rockingham test, which was very successful. We shook down a brand-new truck, chassis #60, and mostly tested chassis #43, which is my favorite truck. This truck knows its way to victory lane. It's been there with Mark Martin

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Hello... Bubba here. First I guess we should wrap up Martinsville. The one word that comes to mind when I think of the Martinsville race is WET. It rained while we were unloading on Thursday... rained a little on Friday... and completely rained us out on Saturday. The only positive thing was how well our team and I were prepared for the weather. Luckily everything stayed dry for the most part

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Hello! Bubba here... Well, Atlanta came and went and we have a destroyed truck to show for it. The race went pretty well until about 12 laps to go. While running in third, we got bumped out of line which shot Colin straight into the backstretch wall. For those of you who watched the race, you know that it was a pretty amazing hit, but also there was nothing Colin could do. Luckily he was okay,

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Hello everyone. Back from our coast-to-coast trip, we now look forward to Atlanta this week... but first let’s wrap up California. I thought we would have a promising finish, but a mechanical failure kept us from reaching our full potential. We decided to try to stretch our fuel mileage, but it turns out that it was a little too far to go. The trip to California and home went off without a hitch

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Howdy... Bubba here! Race number one is finally behind us. After qualifying on the pole, Colin ran to a ninth-place finish. Daytona week for me is always one of the hardest. Getting used to new people in new roles for the trucks always seems to throw a wrench in your plans. Overall the week went very good. Some of the things you would have seen me doing at Daytona would be keeping the cooler full

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Hello everybody... Bubba here with my pre-Daytona blog. The 2009 season starts next week and we've been spending the last two months just getting ready for this year. You'd be really surprised how much time and work go into a truck that you only race twice a year. The Daytona/Talladega truck is different from any other truck that we run. It is specially built for superspeedway tracks. We will be

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Hello... My name is Brian Carr. Most of you know me as Bubba, driver of the No. 6 Con-way Freight transporter in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. How ’bout a little about me? My racing career started in 1996 at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds in Oklahoma City, OK. I owned a factory stock dirt car and we raced there every Friday night. I worked at a printing company in Oklahoma City while I

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