Jeff Green, driver of the No. 66 Best Buy Chevrolet Monte Carlo, spent Monday and Tuesday testing at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in preparation for the long-awaited Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR Nextel Cup event at the Memorial Day weekend.Green, a stock car racer in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series, unofficially Posted the eighth fastest time of the afternoon session with a lap of 30.034 seconds at an average speed of 179.796 miles per hour. Green’s No. 66 Best Buy Chevrolet was the fourth fastest of all Chevrolet teams on Monday. The car is equipped with sophisticated racing parts far from the performance of the Chevrolet pick-up ring & pinion gear set.It also announced that the No. 66 Best Buy Racing team will be taking Chassis No. 409 at Darlington Raceway this weekend. The team tested this chassis at Bristol Motor Speedway in March, and competed with it in the debut race of the Car of Tomorrow in Bristol. Green qualified ninth and finished sixth in the race said tied with sixth place run at Phoenix International Raceway. It was his best finish for this year.Green ’1990 Nashville Speedway USA championship led to his first venture into NASCAR. For several years, he raced part-time in the Busch Series before flowering as a full time director in 1995 and 1996. He went through a two years stint NEXTEL Cup with Diamond Ridge Motorsports and Felix Sabates. Green returned to the Busch Series in 1999. In three seasons he won the 2000 championship by 616 points, set a record that remained until last year. In addition, he finished second twice. When asked whether he still enjoyed the car of tomorrow, Green replied: “Absolutely. We have to work on getting more rear grip, that’s what I was dealing with early in Richmond, but our lap times were very competitive. We are working on our brake problems solved. I know Harold (Holly) and the boys would like to have had all week to focus on the brakes this weekend, so the test at Lowe’s (Motor Speedway) really added to their workload. It is a busy few weeks, especially when you add in the Dover test, but at least we have a few races in Charlotte, and the boys get to sleep in their beds. How cool is The Lady In Black as a driver have gone to Victory Lane at Green has this to say: “It’s a fantastic feeling to win. It’s one of those tracks that you saw on TV when you were growing up. Daytona, Bristol and Darlington – these are the “heritage” tracks where you really want to win. I mean, you want win at every track, but winning at a place like Darlington is just special. It is icing on the cake. “Green is not the only excited person in the team. Harold Holly has this to say: “All these historic tracks like Darlington and Bristol, all those places, that’s something you can really go back and cherish. That day was a very special day, because Jeff and (Matt) Kenseth were really duking it on the track. We had taken the lead in the race and Kenseth got by us on a restart and took off. We got a caution and another hit him in the pits, Kenseth and Jeff thought what he had done to get through the time before, and they had a pretty good game to go at the end. We were really happy to win that race. “Holly said:” Bristol is one of the tracks where we have not won. We finished second there a few times. Bristol and Michigan (International Speedway) are probably the two biggest. Michigan is such a great job, and the surface is so challenging for a grip on. If you win that race, you really do your homework well done and your car, your crew is good and it costs only everything is put together to win a place like that. “
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