Colin Braun E-Newsletter: NASCAR Nationwide Series Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250 Gateway International Raceway
Madison, Illinois • Saturday, July 17, 2010

NOT THE BEST INDICATOR... While the 17th-place finish did not reflect it, Colin Braun and the No. 16 team put together another solid run last weekend at Chicagoland Speedway. Braun ran in the top-12 for the majority of the event and had a shot at a top-10 finish before an accident on the final lap of a green-white-checkered finish relegated him to a 17th-place finish. Braun has registered four top-12 finishes in his last five starts.
BRAUN AT GATEWAY - While it is his first Nationwide Series start at the 1.25-mile Gateway International Raceway, Braun has made two previous Camping World Truck Series starts at the track. In his first start, Braun captured a top-10 finish and in his second, he claimed the pole and finished 19th after a late race incident

BRAUN TO HELP KICK OFF ANTI-TEXTING CAMPAIGN - This Friday, Braun will join officials from Con-way Freight and the Missouri State Highway Patrol as the MSHP kicks off a state-wide anti-texting campaign in downtown St. Louis. As a spokesperson for the Ford Driving Skills for Life program, Braun is an advocate for safe driving habits, especially in teen drivers.

ROUSH FENWAY RACING AT GATEWAY - In 17 Nationwide Series starts, Roush Fenway Racing has captured three wins, seven top-fives, 12 top-10s, two pole awards with 237 laps led. The wins were tallied by Greg Biffle and Carl Edwards (2).

GATEWAY CHASSIS SELECTION - Crew chief Rick Viers has selected RK-346 for this weekend's Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers 250 at Gateway International Raceway. This car was last on track at Nashville Superspeedway with Brian Ickler behind the wheel. Ickler finished 29th after getting caught up in an accident early in the race.

QUOTES
Braun, on consistency in the No. 16 and heading to Gateway:
"I'm excited to have a little bit of consistency over these next few weeks in the No. 16 and getting to further build my relationship with Rick (Viers). We've had some good runs together and I think the best is yet to come for us and this team. Gateway is another place where I've had some success in the Truck Series with a top-10 finish and a pole and I think we have positioned ourselves for another good finish. We've done pretty well at some of these standalone events so far and we're looking for nothing less going into this weekend."

Crew chief Rick Viers, on last weekend's finish and looking to Gateway:
"We had a good car at Chicagoland last weekend and if not caught up in the last-lap crash, we feel like we would have secured another top-10 finish. We feel with Colin's experience at Gateway and what we have learned at Phoenix and Richmond earlier this year that we can expect to have another great weekend."

SCHEDULE: (All time in CDT, unless otherwise noted)

Saturday, July 17, 2010
Practice: 9 - 11:15 a.m. (10 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. EST)

Final Practice: 10:45 a.m. - Noon (11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m. EST)

Qualifying: 3:45 p.m. (4:45 p.m. EST)
TV: 3:30 p.m. (4:30 p.m. EST) ESPN2

Race Start: 7 p.m. (8 p.m. EST)
TV: 6 p.m. (7:30 p.m. EST) ESPN
RADIO: 6:30 p.m. (7:30 p.m. EST) MRN
Live Twitter Updates: Follow @ColinBraun for live updates during the race by Jeff Braun, Colin's dad (Colin will resume the Twitter updates before and after the race).

About Colin Braun

Colin Braun, driver of the NASCAR Nationwide Series No. 16 Con-way Freight Roush Fenway Racing Ford, started his driving career at the age of 6 and found quick sucess. He became the youngest driver to race in a Daytona Prototype, won his first career Grand Am race at the Brumos Porsche 250 at Daytona, and became the youngest driver in North America to win a major auto race at 17 years, 9 mos. and 7 days. At the end of the 2006 season, he was named Rookie-of-the-Year for all of motorsports by SPEED and Racer magazine.

In 2007, Braun also became the youngest driver to stand on the podium at the 24 Hours of LeMans when he finished second in his class. In 2008 and 2009, the rising star competed full-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series in the No. 6 Con-way Freight Ford F-150 for Roush Fenway Racing. He earned Raybestos Rookie-of-the-Year honors in 2008, and captured his first win and five pole positions in 2009. He also made six NASCAR Nationwide Series starts for Roush over the course of two seasons, earning two pole positions and a top-5 finish.

Braun, now 21 years old, embarks on his first full-time NASCAR Nationwide Series season, as he looks to win the 2010 Raybestos Rookie of the Year award.

For more information, please visit www.colinbraun.com.