Ron Hornaday and the No. 2 ACDelco Chevrolet come into Nashville Superspeedway with a lot of momentum on their side.  The team scored their first top-five of the season at Talladega Superspeedway last weekend and jumped up to third in NASCAR Busch Series points.  Hornaday is now only 69 markers out of first.

 Hornaday will make his third appearance at

Nashville Superspeedway this weekend.  Last year, while driving for Hendrick Motorsports, Hornaday scored a 22^nd place finish in the spring race.  In the fall, Hornaday ran as high as third in the Carroll Racing Chevy before being taken out in turn three by a rookie driver.  The team was unable to fix the car and Hornaday finished 31^st.

The ACDelco transporter will unload chassis No. 010.  It is the same car that finished 14^th at Texas just two weeks ago and a car that Hornaday just did not like.  The ACDelco team went back over the car and made several changes to the chassis that should make the car handle better.

This weekend’s Nashville 300 marks Hornaday’s 90^th start in the NASCAR Busch Series.  He made his first NBS start at Nazareth Speedway on May 17, 1998, driving the No. 59 Chevrolet for ST Motorsports.  He finished 23^rd in that event after starting 43^rd.   Hornaday is scheduled to make his 100^th start July 4^th, 2003, at Daytona International Speedway.

Love is in the air and wedding bells are ringing at the Hornaday household.  Ron and Lindy Hornaday’s son Ronnie Hornaday III will be exchanging vows on Saturday April 19, 2003, with Cammie Williams.  The wedding will take place at the Hornaday home in Lake Norman, N.C.

What are your thoughts on Nashville Superspeedway?

“I am excited about our chances this weekend.  This ACDelco team has been working their guts out in preparing for this race.  We are bringing our Texas car here and the guys have changed everything on the car to help us.  They promise me it will feel like a completely different car than it was at Texas, which is big because that car was not much fun to drive.

“Nashville is a cool track, but one in which you need to hit the setup.  It is not one of those tracks where you can ride around and hope things get better.  The groove is pretty narrow and right on the bottom.  It reminds me a little of Chicagoland Speedway as far as the groove goes.  Hopefully we can keep the ACDelco Chevrolet up front all day long”

You are now third in NASCAR Busch Series points.  Is the season evolving like you thought it would?

“I am real proud of the fact that even though we haven’t run up to our ability, we have managed to score points with good finishes.  I think that is a sign of how good everyone is at Richard Childress Racing.  I can’t thank Richard and Judy Childress enough for allowing me to drive for them.

“This has been a strange year in a way.  I thought at the beginning of the season that by this race we would have either won a race or challenged for the win, and we really hadn’t challenged until last week at Talladega.  But I think that we have really improved from a team standpoint every race and I feel like we are getting closer to our goal, which is running in the top-five and winning races.”