Ron Hornaday, who drives for Kevin and DeLana Harvick, has found a late-career rejuvenation after signing with the team-owning couple in 2005. It propelled him to a Truck series championship last year, but he’ll be at Texas Motor Speedway this week to race in the Nationwide Series O’Reilly 300. Yet another benefit of driving for Harvick. Hornaday is scheduled to start five Nationwide races this year, and the O’Reilly 300 marks the first of the season. He is also scheduled to race in Mexico on April 20. While the Truck series remains his main focus, getting in a Nationwide car is something he calls the “perks” of driving for KHI. And Hornaday shares his boss’ philosophy about the Saturday races. “He has nothing to do on Saturday and that’s why he does it and I said, ‘Hey boss, remember me? I am kind of bored too,'” Hornaday said.(Fort Worth Star Telegram)(3-30-2008)
UPDATE: According to a KHI representative, Ron Hornaday’s first Nationwide series start will be in the #33-KHI Chevy on Sunday, April 20th in the Corona 200 at Autodromo Hernanos Rodriguez in Mexico City. Hornaday is scheduled to run the #77-KHI Chevy in the Nationwide Series at Texas Motor Speedway in November.(KHI PR)(3-31-2008)
