When the NASCAR Nationwide race takes the green today at Kansas, most New Jersey race fans know of the name Ryan Truex. He is not only the younger brother of Sprint Cup driver Martin Truex Jr., but he is, currently, the driver of the number 20 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. He is not, however, the only representative of the Garden State we should be cheering for this afternoon.
Bruce Cook is another of those Jersey guy goes South stories that populate the NASCAR garages that we really don't hear much about because they are not drivers, anymore. You see, Cook, at one time was quite a competitor in NJ auto racing. He was always a driver capable of winning each week with his meticously prepared number 84 Street Stock, at Flemington Speedway in it's asphalt days.
Cook took his skills, and attention to detail, to the NASCAR shops, and now is one of the top employees of Kevin Harvick Inc. Depending on the weekend, Cook may find himself as a car chief, a crew chief on a Camping World truck, or like this weekend, the crew chief of a NASCAR Nationwide car.
At Kansas he will be crew chief of the number 4 Hunt's Pizza Chevrolet driven by Kevin Harvick. So he may actually have a better chance of ending up in victory lane than Truex. Something he has already done in 2011, at Daytona, with Tony Stewart at the wheel.
We at Racing Aroud Jersey love it when our Garden State natives represent our state so well. We really love it when they bring home a win. Today we have two legitimate shots. Cook and Truex. Jersey racers rule!
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