United Way 300 presented by Yellow Transportation and Sprint

October 8, 2005
Kansas City, KS

Derrike told us, "I am getting ready to head to the Kansas Speedway for this weekend's Busch Series race. I will be driving the number 71 Chevrolet for Randy MacDonald and MacDonald Motorsports. I will be a teammate to Kevin Lepage who has been driving their primary car for most of the season. I have known the MacDonalds for along time and look forward to driving for them. They are wonderful people and work very hard at their business. I look forward to the opportunity and will do my best to get the car in the show. We obviously are not a lock in car and will have stiff competition to get in the race. I am confident of having a good weekend for them. I will provide an update after practice on Friday. Wish us luck!"

The sponsor is Denver Mattress Company.

In the first practice, Derrike was 49th fastest with a time of 32.311 and speed of 167.126. In Happy Hour, he was 50th fastest with a time of 31.606 and speed of 170.854.

In Qualifying, Derrike was 51st fastest with a time of 31.543 and speed of 171.195. Unfortunately this was not fast enough to make the race.

Derrike gave us these comments. "As I'm sure you know we missed the race. Both Kevin and I ran about the same. We were just unable to keep the car off the race track. Be had to stiffen the front springs up to try and stop it, but in qualifying it rode on the front cross member all the way through the corner sending a steam of sparks behind it. The crew really did a good job with the situations that we had to deal with, but the outcome is the same."