News: No. 20 Auto-Owners Insurance Toyota Camry Preview (NCS) – Daytona International Speedway
No. 20 Auto-Owners Insurance Toyota Camry News and Notes:
- JONES AT DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY: Heading in to the final regular season race, Erik Jones will make his eighth-career start at Daytona International Speedway. Home of his first-career NASCAR Cup Series win in 2018, Jones added an additional win at the track earlier this season when he won the Busch Clash. In addition to his Cup Series starts at the track, Jones has six Xfinity Series starts at the track with a best finish of eighth in the July 2015 event. In his lone Truck Series start at the track, Jones finished second
- JGR AT DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY: Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) has 143 total starts at Daytona International Speedway in Cup Series competition. In those starts, the team has earned eight wins, 33 top-five finishes, 45 top-10 finishes and four pole starting positions. The team has led 1,767 laps, completed 22,854 of 25,446 attempted laps (89.8%) and earned an average start of 15.6 and an average finish of 19.9. Denny Hamlin leads the team with three Daytona 500 victories followed by Tony Stewart with two wins at the track and Dale Jarrett, Kyle Busch and Jones with one win each at the historic track.
- STARTING LINE UP: Erik Jones and the No. 20 Toyota Camry team will start Saturday night’s race at Daytona International Speedway from the 20th position.
- THIS WEEK ON THE NO. 20 CAMRY: For this weekend’s race at Daytona International Speedway, the No. 20 Toyota Camry will carry Auto-Owners Insurance. Established in 1916, Auto-Owners Insurance Group is headquartered in Lansing, Michigan. Recognized for exceptional financial strength and stability, it is among the nation’s largest insurers and writes more than five million policies annually. The company is represented by 48,000 licensed agents in 26 states and offers multiple lines of insurance including life, home, auto and business. The special Simple Human Sense scheme will appear on the No. 20 Toyota Camry for this weekend’s race at Daytona International Speedway and again at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday, September 19, 2020.
- POINTS UPDATE: Jones and the No. 20 Toyota Camry team remain 18th on the Playoff grid following the races at Dover International Speedway.
- DOVER DOUBLEHEADER RECAP: For the final Cup Series doubleheader weekend of the season, teams unloaded at Dover International Speedway for two 311-mile races. For the race on Saturday, Jones started the race from the 13th position and had a solid day with a 12th-place finish. With the top-20 finishers in Saturday’s race inverted for Sunday’s race, the No. 20 Toyota team started Sunday’s race from the ninth position. Struggling with the handling of the No. 20 Camry, Jones slipped to outside the top 20 and fell off the lead lap. Unable to get back on the lead lap and make his way back in to the top 10, Jones earned a 22nd-place finish.
- RACE INFO: The Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway is scheduled for Saturday, August 29, 2020. Coverage of the race will begin at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBC, Sirius XM Channel 90 and MRN Radio.
Jones Career NASCAR Cup Series Stats at Daytona International Speedway:
| Starts | Wins | Top 5 | Top 10 | Poles | Laps Led | Avg. Start | Avg. Finish |
| 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 21.0 | 18.4 |
Jones 2020 Season NASCAR Cup Series Stats:
| Starts | Wins | Top 5 | Top 10 | Poles | Laps Led | Avg. Start | Avg. Finish |
| 25 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 34 | 17.4 | 16.9 |
Jones Career NASCAR Cup Series Stats:
| Starts | Wins | Top 5 | Top 10 | Poles | Laps Led | Avg. Start | Avg. Finish |
| 136 | 2 | 29 | 57 | 2 | 616 | 14..0 | 16.1 |
From the Driver’s Seat:
Erik Jones: “Being 50 points out, we’re going to have to race all day and hope to not get caught up in anything. We can technically race our way in on points, but that will take a lot of problems for other guys. Our mentality is we have to win to advance to the Playoffs. Sometimes you can’t prevent getting caught up in a wreck, but I hope we are there at the end to challenge for it. We’ve won this race before and I think I know how to win on superspeedways. We had a good shot to win at Talladega early this year. Hopefully we get to the end of the race and have ourselves a shot to win it.”
About Auto-Owners Insurance
Established in 1916 and headquartered in Lansing, Michigan, Auto-Owners Insurance Group is the 15th-largest property/casualty insurance group in the nation, based on written premium of over $7.4 billion. The company also ranks 375th on the Fortune 500 list. Auto-Owners is one of nine insurance carrier groups in the U.S. to receive the highest rating possible, A++ Superior, by A.M. Best, which is a nationally recognized rating agency for insurance companies. Auto-Owners offers auto, home, business and life insurance through more than 44,000 licensed independent agents in its 26 operating states. Auto-Owners owns Atlantic Casualty Insurance Company which sells excess and surplus lines polices in 49 states and is affiliated with Concord General Mutual which sells property & casualty products in four states. Auto-Owners employs over 5,000 associates nationwide. Find your agent at auto-owners.com, and connect with Auto-Owners Insurance on Facebook and Twitter (@AutoOwnersIns).
Erik Jones Finishes 22nd in Second Race of Doubleheader Weekend at Dover International Speedway
August 23, 2020Daytona Qualifying Report – Erik Jones Starting 20th
August 26, 2020No. 20 STANLEY Toyota Camry News and Notes:
- JONES AT BRISTOL MOTOR SPEEDWAY: Erik Jones will make his seventh NASCAR Cup Series start at Bristol Motor Speedway on Sunday, May 31, 2020 for the ninth race of the 2020 season. In his previous six starts at the track, his best finish was in 2017 during his rookie season when he won his first Cup Series pole and led 260 laps before finishing second to Kyle Busch. In the Xfinity Series, Jones has six starts with two wins in 2016 and 2017. With one start at the Tennessee short track in the Truck Series, Jones has a sixth-place finish.
- JGR AT BRISTOL MOTOR SPEEDWAY: Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) has 138 total starts at Bristol Motor Speedway in Cup Series competition. In those starts, the team has earned 13 wins, 34 top-five finishes, 52 top-10 finishes and 11 pole starting positions. The team has led 5,833 laps, completed 64,391 of 68,934 attempted laps (93.4%) and earned an average start of 14.8 and an average finish of 17.3. Kyle Busch leads the team with seven wins, followed by Denny Hamlin and Matt Kenseth with two wins each and Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards with one win each.
- STARTING LINEUP: With the starting lineup set by random draw, Jones will start Sunday’s race from the 15th position.
- THIS WEEK ON THE NO. 20 CAMRY: This weekend, the No. 20 Toyota Camry will carry the STANLEY colors for the second time of the 2020 season.
- POINTS UPDATE: With his 26th-place finish at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Jones remains in the 13th position in the Cup Series point standings.
- ALSCO UNIFORMS 500 RECAP: By virtue of their finish in the Coca-Cola 600, Jones and the No. 20 Toyota team started the Alsco Uniforms 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway from the 10th position. Jones ran as high as sixth before a late-race pit road mishap forced the team to pit road for a one-lap penalty. Once the penalty was served, Jones returned to the track in the 35th position and was able to advance to 26th before the race ended.
- RACE INFO: The Food City Presents Supermarket Heroes 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway is scheduled for Sunday, May 31, 2020. Coverage will begin at 3:30 p.m. ET on Fox Sports 1, Sirius XM Channel 90 and PRN Radio.
Jones Career NASCAR Cup Series Stats at Bristol Motor Speedway:
| Starts | Wins | Top 5 | Top 10 | Poles | Laps Led | Avg. Start | Avg. Finish |
| 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 293 | 9.2 | 16.0 |
Jones 2020 Season NASCAR Cup Series Stats:
| Starts | Wins | Top 5 | Top 10 | Poles | Laps Led | Avg. Start | Avg. Finish |
| 8 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 27 | 15.9 | 16.1 |
Jones Career NASCAR Cup Series Stats:
| Starts | Wins | Top 5 | Top 10 | Poles | Laps Led | Avg. Start | Avg. Finish |
| 119 | 2 | 25 | 52 | 2 | 609 | 13.4 | 16.0 |
From the Driver’s Seat: Erik Jones
Erik Jones: “I’m always excited to go to Bristol. It’s been a great track to me for a lot of years and I’ve been really close to a Cup win there the last few years. Hopefully this is the one where we can put it all together and end up in Victory Lane. We’ve always got really good speed and been fast and always feel like we are in contention for a win, so hopefully we can keep it clean all day and get ourselves in position to have a shot at the win late in the race. Excited to get there, definitely our first short track in a while and I think we’ll have a good shot to go out there and grab a win.”
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