FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Boogertown, North Carolina)
The Nascar Cup Series’ newest race team has found its driver for the 2021 season, signing Todd Bradford Dee to a longterm contract to drive the number 52 race car starting at the prestigious Daytona 500.
“It’s really an honor to know I’ll be racing in the Cup Series, and I want to help build this team into a contending operation”, Dee said in a Zoom press conference. “And when I say building the team, I’m being literal—I’m starting Monday on the construction crew to get the race shop built by January.”
Dee, 25, has a long racing career for such a young driver, having competed in such developmental series as the Southern United Challenger Kings Series and the Birmingham-Leeds Outlaw World Series.
“I’m glad that I’ve been able to prove that I can win races in the SUCKS and BLOWS regional organizations, but its time to take my career to the next level”, Dee said. “There’s really no better way to gain experience than by bypassing Xfinity, Trucks and ARCA completely and mixing it up with the ‘big boys’ in Cup. Hey, it worked for Quin Houff, right?”
“We see Todd Bradford Dee as the future of this sport”, team majority owner Gunther Hoffberger said from the future site of the team’s race shop in Boogertown. “And now, more than ever, the future is now. Well, ‘now’ as in 2021, but you get the point. And I speak for all 52 team owners of 52 Pickup Racing when I say that we expect to contend for not finishing last right out of the gate.”
While sponsorship, car manufacturers, crew members, and any possible technical alliances have yet to be announced, Dee did have one calcification to make.
“Todd Bradford Dee is just too formal”, Dee said as the press conference wrapped up. “So you can just call me T.B. Dee—or TBD for short. And 52 Pickup Racing’s driver is definitely going to be TBD in 2021.”
QUOTES: “I’m very thankful to all the owners at 52 Pickup Racing for letting me live out my dream. Why just last night I was holding off Kevin Harvick from passing me. Granted I was five laps down at the time and Harvick was leading, but you get the idea.” —T.B. Dee, driver for 52 Pickup Racing
“No comment” —Edgar Barnhart, one of the fifty-two owners of 52 Pickup Racing.
ABOUT 52 PICKUP RACING: 52 Pickup Racing is NASCAR Cup’s newest race team. Based out of Boogertown North Carolina, the team employs up-and-coming driver T.B. Dee and is actively seeking sponsorship partners, prospective marketing opportunities, and spare change.
Coming soon: The 52 Pickup Racing website