17-YEAR-OLD
COLEMAN SIGNS NASCAR BUSCH
DEVELOPMENT DEAL WITH BREWCO
MOTORSPORTS
CENTRAL CITY,
KY (December 12, 2005) –
Brewco Motorsports announced
the signing of Brad Coleman to
a NASCAR driver development
contract for the 2006 season.
Coleman, the record setting
young driver with stock car,
sports car, and open-wheel
experience, will pilot a
Brewco Motorsports entry in
selected NASCAR Busch Series
and ARCA RE/MAX Series races.
Brewco is a
perennial Top 5 Busch team
that fielded the No. 27
Kleenex/Scott Ford for former
champion David Green and the
No. 66 Duraflame Ford for
former champion and Nextel Cup
contender Greg Biffle.
“Brewco
recognizes Brad as an
extremely talented young
driver with the ability to be
successful in our sport,” said
team owner Clarence Brewer.
“We look forward to a bright
future ahead as we work
together to develop him into a
series champion.”
Coleman, who
will turn 18 a few days after
the 2006 season-opening ARCA
200 at Daytona, will drive a
Brewco Ford in at least 10
ARCA races, beginning with the
April 15 PFG Lester 150 at
Nashville Superspeedway. The
young Texan, who has lived in
Martinsville, VA the last few
years with his driving coach,
will run a
yet-to-be-determined number of
Busch Series races beginning
this summer.
“I’m very
grateful for this chance to
step up and pursue my dream of
a career in motorsports with
Brewco,” Coleman said. “NASCAR
is a great organization for
which I have a lot of respect
and I am looking forward to
competing in it at the top
levels.”
Committed to
racing as a career, Coleman
has already built an
impressive resume and
established himself as a
respected professional driver.
The teenager has pursued an
aggressive cross-training
development program and has
successfully competed in
karts, open-wheel cars, sports
cars, and stock cars.
“Discovered” by
Price Cobb at an indoor
karting center in Houston,
then 12-year-old Coleman
didn’t know he was about to go
on the ride of his life. Cobb,
a former LeMans Champion and
professional driving coach,
helped train and guide the
youngster through karting,
Formula Fran-Am, Formula Pro
Mazda, Rolex Grand American
Sports cars, and ultimately,
late model stock cars.
“I have never
seen a driver with this much
natural talent, and I have
been around a lot of drivers,”
stated Cobb. “Brad has an
incredible gift of vision and
a sixth sense behind the wheel
unlike any I’ve ever
witnessed, and backs it up
with patience and maturity.”
2005 was a
remarkable year for Coleman,
starting out by successfully
running the Rolex 24 of
Daytona in a Porsche 911 GT3
with his Team16 teammates. The
youngsters set a world record
as the youngest team to start
and finish the famed endurance
race when Coleman brought the
car over the finish line in 7th
position. He and teammate
Colin Braun went on to race
Porsche 911 GT3s and Daytona
Prototypes in the Rolex Grand
American Series.
Coleman also
raced a full season of late
model stock cars in 2005 for
Sellers Racing at ACE Speedway
in Altamahaw, North Carolina.
After a year of testing at
both ACE and South Boston
Speedway in Virginia, he
proceeded to finish in the Top
10 in 20 of his 21 events and
ended the year with Top 5
showings in 10 of the final 11
events. This effort earned
Coleman third in the NASCAR
Dodge Weekly Series Budweiser
Challenge, fourth in the
overall championship, and
Rookie of the Year honors.
H.C. Sellers,
brother and crew chief for
NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series
National Champion, Peyton
Sellers, also crew chiefed for
Coleman and said, “Brad is a
natural in the race car. He
adapted to stock cars quickly
and never made the same
mistake twice. Brad is a
dedicated professional and
will go a long way in NASCAR.”
For further
information or to arrange
interviews, please contact
Michael Thompson of
BottleRocket Sports at
901.289.3757 or
michaeljr@bottlerocketsports.com
