Joey Coulter Caps Off Solid Run with Top-10 Finish at Texas Motor Speedway

11/4/2012

Joey Coulter and the No. 22 OneMain Financial Chevrolet team earned a seventh-place finish in the Texas 350 at Texas Motor Speedway. After a top-five qualifying effort, the 22-year-old driver settled into the fourth position for the early stages of the 147-lap event. On a lap-36 restart, the Richard Childress Racing driver ran three-wide before contact with another competitor caused the driver of the No. 22 Chevrolet to drop to ninth place. Wrestling with a tight-handling condition, the Miami Springs, Fla., native climbed to as high as sixth on the leaderboard before bringing the OneMain Financial Chevrolet home in the seventh position to secure his 13th top-10 finish of the 2012 season. Coulter remains fifth in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver championship point standings, 43 markers out of the top spot.

Start - 5 Finish - 7 Laps Led - 0 Points - 5

JOEY COULTER QUOTE:
"Overall, it was a great effort from the No. 22 OneMain Financial Chevrolet team this weekend at Texas (Motor Speedway). We had really good practices and a strong qualifying effort, but could not shake off the tight-handling condition during the race, especially on long green-flag runs. We will work hard to get back into Victory Lane at Phoenix (International Raceway)."