Yeley Perseveres to Score Whitney Motorsports' First Top-20 Sprint Cup finish at Daytona
Daytona Beach, Fla. (July 4, 2010) — After a blown right front tire in the middle stages of Saturday night's Coke Zero 400 left the No. 46 Cash America Dodge with less than optimum aerodynamics, it would have been understandable if J.J. Yeley had lost his focus on the task at hand. However, Yeley kept his head in the game knowing that anything can — and usually does — happen as the laps wind down in a Sprint Cup Series restrictor plate race.
Although he was three laps down due to repairs to the front nose and right front fender, Yeley never quit. Yeley climbed from 39th at the 300-mile mark all the way to 19th at the finish when the multi-car accidents that are a hallmark of racing at Daytona and Talladega thinned the field considerably over the final 100 miles.
"We said all along that our first goal was to make it to the checkered flag and if we could do that we thought we'd have a pretty solid finish," Yeley said after giving Whitney Motorsports its best-ever Sprint Cup Series result. "It's disappointing in one sense because we were three laps down and I think we could have been up towards the top ten if we didn't have that tire problem. But once we were off the lead lap, we kept talking about what was going to happen over the final 100 miles.
"We knew there were going to be some wrecks and we did what we could to stay out of them," Yeley continued. "I was able to weave through that huge wreck in turns three and four, and there were cars and debris everywhere. We're disappointed that we weren't on the lead lap, but then again, if we were, maybe we would have been in the middle of that wreck and been caught up in it. We're really pleased to come out of here basically in one piece and to give Cash America a top-20 finish in their first race with us."
Cash America returns to the Whitney Motorsports team for the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on July 25. Next up for J.J. Yeley and the No. 46 Whitney Motorsports Dodge is the LifeLock.com 400 at Chicagoland Speedway on Saturday July 10. The race will be televised live on TNT with the green flag expected shortly after 7:30 P.M. Eastern. The race will also be broadcast live on affiliates of MRN Radio nationwide and Sirius NASCAR Radio Channel 128.
About Cash America: Cash America International, Inc. provides specialty financial services to individuals in over 1,000 locations in the United States and Mexico and over the Internet in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. Cash America is the largest provider of secured non-recourse loans (commonly referred to as pawn loans) in the United States and currently operates under the brand names Cash America Pawn and SuperPawn in the United States and under the brand name Prenda Fácil in Mexico. The company also offers short-term cash advances in many of its locations in the United States, including close to 250 stores that offer this service under the brand names Cash America Payday Advance and Cashland. The company also offers check cashing services in many of its lending locations and in its company-owned and franchised check cashing facilities operating under the Mr. Payroll trade name. The company also offers short-term consumer loan products over the Internet in the United States at http://www.cashnetusa.com, in the United Kingdom at http://www.quickquid.co.uk, in Australia at http://www.dollarsdirect.com.au, and in Canada at http://www.dollarsdirect.ca. The company also owns a card services business that processes cash advances on behalf of a third-party lender with balances outstanding in all 50 states and four other United States jurisdictions. The company's corporate offices are located in Fort Worth, Texas.