MALSAM FINALLY GETTING TO RACE AT TEXAS IN NASCAR TRUCK SERIES

FORT WORTH, Texas (Nov. 3, 2010) — Pacific Northwest native Tayler Malsam will get to race in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series at Texas Motor Speedway after all.


Malsam will drive the No. 25 Coinstar/H-E-B Grocery Toyota Tundra for Randy Moss Motorsports in Friday’s WinStar World Casino 350K. The race will be televised on SPEED beginning with the NCWTS Setup Show at 5 p.m. (PT).

“Any mile-and-a-half track, those are my favorites,” said Malsam. “I didn’t get to race at Texas earlier in the season, so I’m looking forward to bringing a fast truck there to see what we can do. It didn’t take long at Las Vegas for (crew chief) Doug Wolcott and I to get back on the same page, and we did pretty well at Texas last year.”

This past June the 21-year-old from Sammamish, Wash., was preparing to take part in the first of two visits of the series to the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway tri-oval when the decision was made to move him up to the NASCAR Nationwide Series. After making 11 Nationwide starts, Malsam returned to the Camping World Truck Series on Sept. 25 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, finishing 13th for RMM in the No. 25.

Malsam raced in the NASCAR truck series for RMM last season, and in his second stint with the team he has been reunited with crew chief Wolcott, who guided him to 10 top-10 finishes in 2009. After Texas, Malsam is slated to drive the No. 25 for RMM in the final two races of the season, on Nov. 12 at Phoenix and Nov. 19 at Homestead-Miami.

To support new sponsors Coinstar and H-E-B Grocery, earlier this week Malsam travelled to Texas to meet fans and sign autographs at various sites.

“I'm very thankful for Coinstar and H-E-B for coming on board as sponsors,” said Malsam. “Texas is one of my favorite tracks, so hopefully we can put everything together and put on a good show for them."

Malsam recorded his second career NASCAR top-10 at Texas last year, finishing ninth in the Spring race won by current series point leader Todd Bodine. Like Malsam, Bodine enjoys racing at fast, high-banked tracks with multiple grooves and the New York native has won 11 of 53 starts on 1.5-mile ovals.

One of those wins was in this season’s June race at Texas, the one Malsam missed. In that race Bodine added to his resume as the winningest truck series driver at TMS by driving away from four-time and reigning series champion Ron Hornaday and Timothy Peters on a green-white-checkered restart. Johnny Sauter, who edged Malsam as the 2008 truck series rookie of the year, finished second with rookie Austin Dillon, winner of the Las Vegas race, in third.

Malsam made seven trucks series starts with Kyle Busch Motorsports this season before moving up in to drive in the Nationwide Series for Braun Racing.

On the Web
For more information about Tayler Malsam visit www.taylermalsam.com, or follow @TaylerMalsam on Twitter and “NASCAR Driver Tayler Malsam” on Facebook.

To learn more about Coinstar and the H-E-B Grocery chain, please visit www.coinstar.com and www.heb.com, respectively.

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