Driver scheduled to run six of the next seven races, picks up both Iowa events
HScott Motorsports with Chip Ganassi announced Monday an expanded schedule for Brennan Poole in 2015, adding both NASCAR XFINITY Series races at Iowa Speedway to his driving duties.
The news comes just four days before Poole -- a native of Houston-area suburb The Woodlands, Texas -- competes at his home track of Texas Motor Speedway, site of Friday night's O'Reilly Auto Parts 300 (8:30 p.m. ET, FOX Sports 1). He'll celebrate his 24th birthday Saturday.
Adding the May 17 and Aug. 1 events in Iowa brings Poole's schedule to 17 races in the No. 42 Chevrolet, sponsored this weekend by DC Solar.
Poole has split time with Sprint Cup regular Kyle Larson in the No. 42 this season. Larson has notched three top-10 finishes in his three efforts. Poole finished ninth in his XFINITY debut last month at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He led the first laps of his career the following weekend at Phoenix International Raceway, but a fuel miscalculation in the late stages cost him another likely top-10.
For his third start this weekend, Poole will make his first appearance on the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway, even though he's intimately familiar with the facility. He's competed on the TMS dirt track, fifth-mile layout, road course and the quarter-mile oval on the speedway's frontstretch.
Including the Texas event, Poole is scheduled to drive the No. 42 in six of the series' next seven races.
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