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New sponsor on board with Coulter at DIS:

Mama Lucia Meatballs will adorn Coulter’s red and black #22 Richard Childress Racing truck as the primary sponsor for the NextEra Energy Resources 250 at DIS. Quaker Maid Meats introduced the fully cooked Italian style meatballs to the market shelves in 1979. The frozen meat manufacturer remains a family-operated business.based in Reading, Pa. The #22 Mama Lucia Meatballs Chevrolet team heads into the 2012 season virtually unchanged from 2011. Driver, crew chief Harold Holly, team engineer Matt McCall and many of the race shop and over-the-wall pit crew members have remained the same. One new face on the team is truck chief Mark Setzer who joined the Mama Lucia Meatball gang at the end of the 2011 season. In 2011, Coutler made his career-first start at Daytona, where a blown tire left the team with severe damage resulting in a 34th-place finish after starting eighth.(Richard Childress Racing PR)(2-21-2012)