Kobyluck Not Changing A Thing For Championship Bid

Matt Kobyluck has had a successful career in the NASCAR Camping World Series East. Not only has he won the NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown, but he’s finished in the top-10 in series points for the last six years running. He’s a frequent race winner with victories at each type of venue on the schedule, but the 37-year-old driver has yet to secure a championship. The team is banking on that 2008, their tenth anniversary as a full-time team on the series, is different.

Kobyluck will begin his 2008 campaign with the NASCAR Camping World Series West race at Phoenix International Raceway in early April before officially kicking off a championship bid at Greenville Pickens Speedway when the East Series hosts its season opener on April 19th.

“Maybe I can duplicate what Mike Olsen did in his tenth year – win a championship,” said Kobyluck. “Every year we’ve been capable of being a champion. We’re not going to do anything different with our program this year. We’re keeping up with the changing evolution of our sport, but we give it 110 percent every season. The guys work hard in the shop and I will continue on my disciplined ways of staying physically and mentally fit.”

The Mohegan Sun Casino race team will return to the NASCAR Camping World Series East in 2008 unchanged. The crew

remains a core group of guys that have been with Kobyluck for many of his ten years of competition. The car, however, may look a little different.

“We have a little bit of a different color scheme this year,” Kobyluck added. “There will be more orange on the car. It will be on display at the SpeedwayEXPO show the first weekend in March for everyone to see, and I think everyone will like it.”

The Mohegan Sun Casino Chevrolet will be featured in the New Hampshire Motor Speedway booth at SpeedwayEXPO February 29th-March 2nd. The show is held at the Big E exposition center in West Springfield, MA.

“It’s the first time we’ve been in the display for NHMS so maybe this can change things around for us at that track,” said Kobyluck, who has historically encountered much of his bad luck within a season at that track.