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HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (April 16, 2013)\u00a0–\u00a0<\/strong>David Reutimann and the No. 83 Dr. Pepper Toyota team finished 24th at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday night.\u00a0 Running one of the best cars they have had all season, the team had a competitive race logging laps inside the top 20 before being caught off the lead lap to finish the event in the 24th position.<\/p>\n The 500-mile race at Texas Motor Speedway marked the first Saturday night race of the season, challenging the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series competitors with changing track conditions and cooling temperatures as the sun set over the 1.5-mile speedway near Fort Worth, Texas.\u00a0 Like many teams, the No. 83 Dr. Pepper Toyota team worked closely with their driver, identifying how their car was handling and continually fine-tuning their set up throughout the evening.\u00a0 For Reutimann, his No. 83 Camry fluctuated between being a bit too tight and a bit too free.\u00a0 With several rounds of pit stops, the Dr. Pepper team utilized each opportunity to help the balance of their car with slight air pressure adjustments.<\/p>\n Race strategy also played a role in the 500-mile race as many competitors found themselves trapped a lap down to the leader.\u00a0 After being caught a lap down, the No. 83 Dr. Pepper team took a gamble on their pit strategy during a round of green-flag pit stops.\u00a0 When the caution flag waved just a few laps later, Reutimann and the team were left in a two lap deficit to the leaders.\u00a0 At the conclusion of the event, Reutimann was scored in the 24th position.<\/p>\n “Our No. 83 Dr. Pepper Toyota Camry was a really good car this weekend,” commented Reutimann.\u00a0 “We turned competitive lap times and raced hard for positions.\u00a0 Our spotter did a great job keeping us out of trouble so we could run the entire race, and the crew did a great job keeping up with adjustments to keep the balance of our car.\u00a0 We had a lot of guests from Dr. Pepper with us at the track this weekend, and I feel like we were able to put on a good show for them.\u00a0 I’m really proud of everyone for all their hard work that went into getting ready for the race this weekend.\u00a0 I’m looking forward to getting to Kansas next week.”\u00a0<\/p>\n The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will race at Kansas Speedway next Sunday, April 21.\u00a0 Fans can tune in to SPEED on Friday, April 19 (1 p.m. EDT) and Saturday, April 20 (10 a.m. EDT and 12:30 p.m. EDT) to see live coverage of practice, as well as qualifying on Friday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. EDT.\u00a0 Race coverage of the STP 400 will begin at 1 p.m. EDT on FOX, MRN and Sirius XM NASCAR Radio on Sunday, April 21.\u00a0 As always, fans can visit\u00a0BKRacing.com<\/a>,\u00a0twitter.com\/bkracing8393<\/a>\u00a0orfacebook.com\/bkracing8393<\/a>\u00a0for the latest news and updates about David Reutimann and the No. 83 Dr. Pepper Toyota Camry team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (April 16, 2013)\u00a0–\u00a0David Reutimann and the No. 83 Dr. Pepper Toyota team finished 24th at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday night.\u00a0 Running one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-front-page-news","category-racing-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17584,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17581\/revisions\/17584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}