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Exide back with Buescher along with F.O.E.:

The No. 31 Exide Batteries/F.O.E team will bring chassis TMS-011 to the 1.5-mile Kentucky Speedway for Thursday night’s 150-lap event. TMS-011 last saw racing action at Kansas Speedway last month where James Buescher started in the sixth spot en route to a fourth-place result. Buescher and the No.31 Turner Motorsports Chevrolet team will sport the blue and black colors of Exide Batteries again on Thursday night at Kentucky Speedway. This will be the Georgia-based company’s fourth race as the primary partner on the No. 31 machine. In his three starts driving the blue No. 31 Exide Batteries Chevrolet, Buescher has two top-five and three top-10 results with an average finish of 5.66.Buescher and the No. 31 Turner Motorsports team will sport the colors of FOE on the hood for Thursday night’s race. The Fraternal Order of Eagles is an international non-profit organization, which unites fraternally in the spirit of liberty, truth, justice, and equality, to make human life more desirable by lessening its ills, and by promoting peace, prosperity, gladness and hope. Presently F.O.E. membership is almost one million strong, with more than 1,700 local aeries in the U.S. and Canada.(Turner Motorsports PR)(7-4-2011)