It’s 65 miles from Michigan Global Speedway in Brooklyn to the Ford Motor Company’s worldwide headquarters in Dearborn. Clint Bowyer would stroll every mile if he might perhaps well hand lift the speedway’s Heritage Trophy to Ford executives after sweeping Saturday’s and Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Sequence races at the 2-mile oval.
“I understand how main a success of their absorb backyard is to Ford as a consequence of we’ve performed it earlier than at Michigan,” Bowyer said. “I’d buy handy that trophy to Ticket Rushbrook (Ford Performance Motorsports’ global director) again this weekend, in particular since it’s Michigan’s first doubleheader weekend.”
The Michigan Heritage Trophy, created in August 2013, is awarded to the a success producer of every Michigan Cup bustle. Every producer and the be conscious donates $10,000 to a early life-connected, STEM-connected charity in Michigan. Since its inception, Ford and Chevrolet absorb six Michigan victories every whereas Toyota has one. The trophy will most likely be awarded on a parts system if varied manufacturers put off Saturday and Sunday.
The trophy, impressed by the NHL’s Stanley Cup trophy, is 3 feet mammoth, weighs about 30 pounds and capabilities an customary sculpture such as the Greek goddess of victory, Nike. The distinctive bronze artwork sits atop a wooden nefarious, esteem the structure of Detroit landmarks such because the Fisher Constructing and Guardian Constructing.
“I’ve been succesful of force for every producer in the Cup Sequence and know how grand each one of them methodology to our sport,” said Bowyer, whose 10 profession victories contain two in Fords, three in Toyotas and 5 in Chevrolets. “We don’t bustle with out our manufacturers and I understand how grand every takes pride of their results on the be conscious, in particular at Michigan.”
Bowyer fondly remembers a success the Heritage Trophy for Ford on June 10, 2018.
His No. 14 Haas Automation Ford Fusion had pretty taken the lead at some level of the ruin earlier than the final stage of the bustle. Rain clouds out of the northeast drew nearer, spitting a sparkling mist with many of the 39-car area suspecting the bustle wouldn’t final grand longer.
Bowyer held the lead but easiest as a consequence of his then-crew chief Mike Bugarewicz elected to put off two tires whereas many of the realm took four. It was once up to Bowyer to support the realm pretty earlier than his Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) teammate Kevin Harvick, who had led 49 laps, more than every other driver.
“I looked in the mirror – all people gradual me is on four tires,” Bowyer said. “(I’m thinking that) I don’t know what you’re trying at, but there’s an military of folks on pit freeway who seen the same forecast, same radar, they took four.”
The inexperienced flag waved and Bowyer drove as exhausting as he might perhaps well for three-and-a-half laps. He edged pretty earlier than Harvick earlier than the rain fell exhausting enough for NASCAR to pause the bustle with 67 laps final, giving Bowyer his 10th profession victory and 2nd of the 2018 season. Then-teammate Kurt Busch’s was once third to present SHR its first 1-2-3 attain.
Ford has swept all three races since Bowyer’s victory at Michigan.
He hopes for a repeat this weekend as he pilots the No. 14 DEKALB Ford in Michigan. DEKALB has been helping farmers be obvious that a future of performance with alternate-leading corn seed products for more than 100 years.
“I grew up in farm country and seen firsthand the exhausting work that goes into rising flora and caring for cattle,” said Bowyer. “Farming takes time, energy and improbable attention to detail. DEKALB understands all of that, and they know what farmers must handle their flora. It really is an honor to suggest DEKALB.”
Bowyer operates a 650-acre farm in North Carolina and parts out the similarities between farming and racing.
“A hit is more than a goal, it’s a manner of thinking,” he said. “Correct query any farmer or NASCAR driver pushing themselves. You might perhaps well also very successfully be repeatedly trying to purple meat up performance every and each season. Once you catch a taste of success and a success, that mindset takes assist, it drives everything you develop, shaping households and defining who you may perhaps well also very successfully be. A hit has roots.”
Bowyer might perhaps well exhaust a victory Saturday or Sunday at Michigan. He arrives 12th in the season’s level standing after an 18th-area attain Sunday at Contemporary Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon. He earned nine bonus parts by finishing seventh and sixth in the essential two phases earlier than facing complications plagued his final stage.
Bowyer is 14th in the playoff standings with a 43-level cushion over the final transfer space into the 16-driver playoff area. A put off in either Michigan races secures a local in NASCAR’s postseason, but a factual bustle helps in padding his parts cushion.
This might perhaps well be a busy weekend with unhurried-afternoon races every Saturday and Sunday in Michigan. And for Bowyer, if he wins every, a prolonged hike to Dearborn on Monday.
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