Despite posting the 10th fastest time, of 29 competitors at Daytona Speedway Sunday, Grant was not happy with the performance of the BeasleyAllen.com ARCA speedway car. “We had a decent car Saturday, but we lost rpms on Sunday and the car was difficult to drive in the draft. ” The only car which Grant seemed to draft well with was the 88 car driven by IRL star Danica Patrick. The 3 day test session, dubbed “Danica Fest” due to the tremendous media and fan coverage of Patrick, featured more than 60 ARCA drivers, including racers from Canada, Venezuela, India and China. A total of 10 female drivers took part in the only open test session at the 2.5 mile track prior to the February 6th Lucas Oil 200.

Grant and crew member Tom Bear left Daytona late Sunday afternoon, driving back to the Charlotte, North Carolina shop. Grant had planned to unload the car and do some minor work on the car and then head to Alabama for Christmas. That trip will be delayed as he will take the car to the Roush Yates chassis dyno today to evaluate the driveline performance. “Our engines have the best part of our ARCA program and part of the engine package is evaluating the engine and drive components by dyno testing before and after testing and racing. We are fortunate to be able to go to the dyno and even luckier that Nick Ramey handles the Roush Yates ARCA program. Nick has been instrumental in keeping us at the top of the field in every ARCA race.”

“I really appreciate Tom Bear, Jeremy Lundy, Thomas Praytor and Ben Hill traveling long distances and working hard throughout the long weekend. Danica Patrick had 2 former Cup crew chiefs and 10 crew members doing what our few folks did. She finished 5 places ahead of us in Sunday’s test, and probably spent 20 times what we did for the test. We don’t mind that, as running against good and big teams only makes us work harder and elevate our performance..”