By DDR Motorsports PR 
Watertown, Conn.—March 27, 2013 — It’s another race weekend for David Gravel this week with the World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series and that mean he’ll be visiting yet another track for the first time. That’s become a common theme for the young driver this year, as in each of the last three weeks, he has raced at venues on the West Coast for the first time with the STP World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series as he continues to fill-in for the injured Bill Rose. This week he heads to Merced Speedway in California, which will mark the fourth track he has visited in the state of California in a three-week stretch.
 
Gravel will take to the third-mile Merced Speedway on Friday, March 29 aboard the Firetext Response Maxim for Rose’s Indiana-based team. The World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series made their debut at Merced Speedway in 2011, which at the time was a quarter-mile. The surface was then reconfigured to a third-mile in time for the 2012 series event at the track.
 
“Chico (Silver Dollar Speedway) is pretty small, so going from one small track to another little one should help,” Gravel said. “We’ve had a good baseline set-up the last few weeks, which gives us a good starting point at Merced and then we can work from there. Getting a few good, clean laps in hot laps will be important.” Read more »

By DDR Motorsports PR 
Watertown, Conn.—March 24, 2013 — Sometimes in racing it’s all about being in the right place at the right time. Both races David Gravel competed in this past weekend with the World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series were filled with yellow and red flag periods, with the young driver steering clear of those incidents in one event and being involved in a wild last lap in the other. When all the dust settled, Gravel recorded finishes of sixth and 13th as he continues to fill-in for the injured Bill Rose in the Firetext Response Maxim.
 
In his debut at Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico, Calif., in the Mini Gold Cup on Saturday, March 23, Gravel found himself battling for the second position on the last lap, following a green-white-checker restart on the white flag lap, in a race that was thus extended one lap to a 41-lap contest. He got sideways on the last lap and spun as he was battling Tony Stewart for the runner-up spot, leaving the latter nowhere to go, which set off a chain reaction that led to several cars being involved in the incident. Gravel was able to nurse the car across the finish line in sixth.
 
“We had a chance on the last restart and that’s all you can ask for,” said Gravel. “I drove it hard into (turn) one and got squeezed up there. I was going for it and came up a little short. It was a good effort and I’m glad we were able to finish at the end after everything that happened.” Read more »