Posts Tagged ‘Kyle Busch’

Relentless Drive 2011

Pizza Ranch is excited to be back for its third season as an official sponsor of Joe Gibbs Racing in 2011.  We are proud to be a part of one the top-tier teams in NASCAR. The season will be highlighted with Kyle Busch back behind the wheel for Pizza Ranch in Michigan. Michael McDowell will join Team Pizza Ranch with 2 efforts at Pizza Ranch’s home track of Iowa Speedway.  Pizza Ranch is also excited to be represented on Kyle’s fire suit for all of his NASCAR Nationwide Series.

The Pizza Ranch family is pulling for Joe Gibbs Racing this weekend as the 2010 NASCAR season comes to a close this weekend in Miami.  Denny Hamlin is gunning for JGR’s fourth Sprint Cup Title and to dethrone the JJ dynasty.  Also Kyle and the #18 crew are going for back-to-back Owner’s Championships in the Nationwide Series.

We will be announcing some exciting updates to Pizza Ranch Racing’s 2011 Racing program right here in the next couple weeks – so stay tuned.

Congratulations to Kyle Busch & Joe Gibbs Racing on the Bristol sweep this weekend.  Kyle made NASCAR history by becoming the 1st driver to ever win all 3 of NASCAR’s major touring series in the same weekend.

A lot of things seemed to suit Matt DiBenedetto well about Pizza Ranch’s home track, Iowa Speedway.  Those good vibes culminated with a Nationwide series career best, top-ten finish.  Despite racing at Iowa Speedway for the first time, Matt took right to it and posted the fastest time in Saturday morning’s delayed practice.  Although none of the double-duty drivers practiced, it was a good sign that Matt was ready to rebound after back-to-back frustrating outings.

Matt started ninth in front of a sold out crowd of over 50,000, including 400+ Pizza Ranch friends.  Matt battled hard all night with cup and nationwide series regulars to keep the Pizza Ranch No. 20 Toyota solidly in the top ten and as high as 7th.  With 47 laps to go, and in 8th place, a caution came out that shook up the top ten.  Matt dropped back to 14th, after a handful of cars made a position grab going with just 2 tires.  Matt steadily worked back into the top-ten and went door-to-door with Justin Allgaier for the last 20 laps of the race and settled out in ninth place.  Matt’s next race will be Gateway’s curtain closer on October 23.

Congratulations to JGR’s Kyle Busch and the No. 18 crew with their ninth win of the year.  Pizza Ranch victory lane was excited to have Kyle back since his victory last year in the K&N East-West All Star Race.

Pizza Ranch Racing got its season off to an exciting start at Iowa Speedway this past weekend.  Kyle Busch won the NASCAR Camping World Series East/West Challenge at Iowa Speedway the day after a great race in NASCAR’s Sprint All-Star Race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.  There was lots of other great racing in Newton this past weekend for racing fans to enjoy.  And of course there was also some great pizza being served along with that racing.  I enjoyed meeting so many people in Newton this weekend who love racing and who LOVE Pizza Ranch.