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About Terry Cook, driver, No. 10 International Truck and Engines Ford . . .
- Currently 15th in the driver points standings entering Bristol Motor Speedway
- Last short track win came at Indianapolis Raceway Park, .686 miles in length
- Best 2004 finish is a third at Mansfield Motorsports Speedway, .44 miles in length
- Won first-career race and pole at Flemington (N.J.) Speedway in 1998 and ’97, respectively, a .625-mile short track
- Has earned five top-10 finishes in 2004; last came at home track at Michigan International Speedway finishing seventh
- Last pole position was at Daytona International Speedway in first 2004 event with ppc Racing; led 12 laps and finished fifth
- Five-career wins and eight career pole positions with 21 top-five and 68 top-10 finishes
- Past performances at Bristol Motor Speedway:
Year Start Finish Laps Completed Reason Out Money Earned
- 2003 4 27 57 / 200 Accident $ 6,815
- 1999 21 15 199 / 200 Running $ 6,815
- 1998 20 14 205 / 206 Running $ 5,575
- 1997 32 27 161 / 200 Accident $ 4,700
- 1996 Did not compete
- 1995 Did not compete
- Average start / finish at Bristol Motor Speedway: 19.3 / 20.8
Terry Cook on racing at Bristol Motor Speedway . . .
“I like going to Bristol Motor Speedway because it’s so much different than the norm. Last year was the first year back since 1999 in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. It was something we all missed on the schedule. We were glad to see it come back on the schedule. Bristol is a race everyone looks forward to because it is different. It’s kind of like Darlington Raceway; it’s anything different than the norm.”
Terry Cook on predicting an outcome at Bristol. . .
“You really can’t. Track position is huge at Bristol. It’s very tough to pass at Bristol but you can do it if you have a really good truck. You have to have good pit stops all night but you also have to qualify well. Even if you put yourself in a position where you qualify well like we did last year in fourth, it doesn’t assure you’ll finish well. It’s a track where you can sit on the pole and be in lapped traffic and then suddenly be caught up in a wreck. There’s a lot of luck that plays into itself and I usually don’t talk about luck because I believe you make your own as a race team. There is racing luck, the kind that gets you caught up in other people’s wrecks. It’s what I call ‘bad luck.’”
Terry Cook on pooling data from other short track races in 2004 . . .
“We can pull some of what we did at the other short tracks but there is nothing we race on that is similar to Bristol. Bristol is such a unique track by itself. Whether it’s Mansfield, Memphis, IRP or Martinsville, absolutely ‘zero’ will help us at Bristol. There is nothing we’ve done at the other short tracks this year that can help us at Bristol. It’s a 36-degree banked track. You’re going to see shock travels three times what you normally see at most tracks. It takes a completely different setup to get around Bristol competitively.”
Terry Cook on last year’s performance . . .
“We had a good qualifying effort in the Ford Power Stroke Diesel by International race truck but it was one of those races we really didn’t have a good race setup underneath the truck. We got taken out early in the race by a spin and worked our way back to the front, trying to be patient and not doing anything silly. Bristol is a racetrack where you can get caught up in somebody else’s mess very quickly and unfortunately that’s what happened to us. We were trying to lap a guy that was on his way to the back and he got sideways and took us out at the same time. It was just very short night for us at Bristol.”
Terry Cook 2004 NCTS Performances . . .
Race Track Start Finish Laps Completed Status Money Earned
Daytona 1 5 100 / 100 Running $23,600
Atlanta 20 18 131 / 133 Running $7,715
Martinsville 31 22 254 / 254 Running $7,140
Mansfield 34 3 252 / 252 Running $17,940
Charlotte 33 14 134 / 134 Running $11,740
Dover 14 20 198 / 200 Running $11,765
Texas 14 24 143 / 167 Running $9,965
Memphis 22 27 197 / 200 Running $8,165
Milwaukee 19 7 205 / 205 Running $13,275
Kansas 13 10 167 / 167 Running $13,625
Kentucky 13 30 137 / 153 Accident $11,190
Gateway 18 26 160 / 174 Accident $ 8,315
Michigan 16 7 100 / 100 Running $13,400
IRP 20 14 199 / 200 Running $10.665
Nashville 21 16 150 / 150 Running $ 8,790
Averages 19.3 16.2 2527/ 2589 $177,290
97.6 %
International Truck and Engines Crew . . .
Keith Barnwell, Spotter
John Bruns, Rear Tire Carrier
Ben Chase, Jack Man
Gary “Turtle” Clem, Transport Driver
Melissa Cotrone, Scorer
Brian “Tailgate” Dancy, Gas Man and Tire Specialist
Ron Denton, Engineer
Brandon Edwards, Front Tire Changer
Cliff Graves, Truck Chief
Jamie Jones, Crew Chief
Mike Lore, Pit Setup
Ken Majors, Engine Tuner
Dustin Neicase, Rear Tire Changer
Shaun Washburn, Pit Setup
Pete White, Front Tire Carrier
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