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Mooresville, NC (May 13, 2013) – This past weekend’s Sport Clips 200 at Darlington Raceway on Friday night was filled with hard racing and excitement. After a solid 18^th place finish the week before at Talladega Superspeedway. Wise’s weekend began with one 2 hour practice session on Friday, the No. 40 Curtis Key Plumbing Camaro went through a number of long runs to get Wise the feel he needed to race for 200 miles around the egg shaped 1.366 mile track. After working with different set up approaches, the team felt good about the race and didn’t want to over adjust the car for the night time race.

Friday afternoon began with qualifying, where the No.40 Curtis Key Plumbing Camaro would go out in 13^th spot and qualify in 22^nd.

From the drop of the green flag, Wise’s Chevrolet started out tight and able to maintain in the top 25 through the first pit stops and make the changes Josh needed. The driver radioed that the car was getting better and moved inside the top 20 at lap 40. Lap 51 #11 car spins and brings out the caution .Gary Showalter and team began to fine tune the handling getting Wise up to 19^th off pit road.  Josh avoided a spinning car in turn 2 and slapped the wall earning his Darlington stripe mid part of the race.

The No. 40 Curtis Key Plumbing Camaro finished the Sport Clips 200 in 21^st place. Darlington was the last race for Josh Wise in the 40 as Reed Sorenson returns to TMG after filling in for Michael Annett in the Pilot Flying J Ford.  The Motorsports Group has a weekend off before heading to Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 25^th for the History 300.

Here is the first look at the e-Swisher.com Chevrolet Camaro that Reed Sorenson will drive for 14 NASCAR Nationwide Series races starting May 25th at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

E-Swisher coming to a track near you.

May 25th Charlotte Motor Speedway
June 1st Dover International Speedway
June 8th Iowa Speedway
June 15th Michigan International Speedway 
June 22nd Road America
June 28th Kentucky Speedway
July 5th Daytona International Speedway
July 13th New Hampshire Motor Speedway
July 21st Chicagoland Speedway
July 27th Indianapolis Motor Speedway
August 3rd Iowa Speedway
August 10th Watkins Glen International
August 17th Mid-ohio
August 23rd Bristol Motor Speedway

Race: VFW Sport Clips Help a Hero 200
Date: May 10, 2013
Location: Darlington Raceway

The Motorsports Group NASCAR Nationwide Series History at Darlington Raceway ..In 8 NASCAR Nationwide Series starts at Darlington Raceway, The Motorsports Group is winless at the 1.366-mile track and a best finish of 23^rd with Jeff Green in 2009.

2013 So Far .. In the eight races ran this season, TMG has earned four top 20 finishes in the Nationwide Series, with Reed Sorenson and Josh Wise tying for the season high finishes in the 40 car with Reed at Phoenix in 18^th and Josh at Talladega also 18^th.

 Points after 8 races .. Josh Wise is ranked 23rd in the Nationwide Series driver championship point standings, 81 points behind 15^th place Travis Pastrana. The Curtis Key Plumbing No. 40 sits 23^rd in Nationwide owner points with a locked in spot at Darlington.

Social Media .. To keep up-to-date with the latest news, information and to view exclusive content, visit TMG’s Twitter page – @TMG_team40, and TMG’s NNS driver Twitter pages – @Josh_Wise, @jjyeley1, @ReedSorenson7, @ScottRiggsFan and @ChaseMillerRCN

Catch the Action … Flag-to-flag coverage of the VFW Sport Clips Help a Hero 200

Will be televised on ESPN2 beginning at 7 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, May 10.

(Mooresville, NC) May 5, 2013- After starting 39th at Talladega Superspeedway in the AARON’S 312 on Saturday Josh Wise and Jeremy Clements wasted no time hooking up and moving through the field.

After the first caution at lap 15 Josh came in for fuel and tires restarted 25th and from that point Josh stayed in the draft, on lap 94 Wise drove through the turn 3 pile up involving 11 cars, spotter Bob Jeffrey guided Josh through and escaped with no damage and that set up a shootout as NASCAR cut the distance to 107 laps instead of the full 117.

Coming to the checkered flag the #40 Curtis Key Plumbing Chevrolet was 15th and in front of Josh the #11 and #20 started wrecking, Josh had nowhere to go and hit the #99 of Alex Bowman hard and put the #40 with a 18th place finish.

Next race for TMG is May 10th at Darlington Raceway for the VFW Sport Clips Help a Hero 200 on ESPN2 – 7:00pm/et

Follow The Motorsports Group on Twitter for live updates at the track and in the shop: @TMG_team40

(Mooresville, NC) April 30, 2013- Josh Wise and The Motorsports Group head to Talladega Superspeedway for this Saturday’s AARON’S 312. Wise has raced in Nationwide competition two times at Talladega. The Motorsports Group driver enjoys drafting and look for him to use his Sprint Cup experience to race around the 2.66 mile oval. TMG will use the same car from the season opener at Daytona that Reed Sorenson drove into the top 10 with.

Watch Live

AARON’S 312 will be shown on ESPN and broadcasted on MRN Radio, with a scheduled green flag at 3:18pm/et.

Follow TMG on Twitter for live updates: @TMG_team40

About The Motorsports Group

The Motorsports Group (TMG) fields multiple entries in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Owned by Curtis Key, a veteran race team owner for 20 years, TMG’s focus is to develop top racing talent and bring new marketing partnerships into the sport by as a multi-car NASCAR team.

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