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Irmo, SC — The mobile app EMS Speak and Danny Efland will be featured at the Darlington Speedway, Mother’s Day Weekend. The #4 Nationwide car, a new Chevy Impala that Danny  completed in his Irmo, SC, shop, will team with EMS Speak for the race. Danny will be at the wheel of the Chevy Impala for the Darlington race as he continues his partnership with Johnny Davis Motorsports in an effort to keep the #4 car in the owner’s points standings.   EMS Speak, the app that becomes your voice in an emergency. EMS Speak audibly translates standard protocol questions of emergency responders, police,fire,ems and hospital personnel from English to Spanish but also allows the individual data storage for when medical information is life threatening. Don’t let an emergency leave you speechless. EMS Speak and Danny Efland are looking forward to a great race … see ya at the finish line!!

Irmo, SC — After receiving my Engineering degree from the University of South Carolina in December it was time to get started on our Nationwide car for Daytona. My Dad and I built the car and Johnny Davis lent us an older generation used motor.  Jeremy Clements father re-built the motor for us and with the help of many friends we were ready.

With fifty cars vieing for forty three spots, I was blessed to have a locked in position.  We did not need to worry about qualifying trim and could concentrate on race set up.

The weather was great in Daytona and pre-race Technical Inspection came off without a hitch.  This is something I always worry about because we are by far NASCAR’s smallest team and we do not have a lot of at track capability to re-work the car.

During practice, I knew that I would have to have drafting help to keep up.  Our strategy was to lay back and run with a few cars so we would not be in the pack when  the ‘big one’ happened and then to go for it at the end.  My father is my spotter and he and I actually crew chief the car during the race.  We use a Mooresville based crew school as an over the wall pit crew.

The initial strategy was wrong from the beginning.  I could not keep up as soon as I was out of the lead pack and quickly got lapped.  Fortunately 2 quick cautions gave us the lap back.  The lesson was learned! I had to stay in the lead pack the rest of the race.

At times we would pass 6-8 cars in one lap and move up to around 15th and the next lap be back to 24th.   To avoid one wreck I was forced down pit road wide open.

The race ended with the ‘big one’.  Dad and I had seen it coming and elected to hold back.  We avoided the carnage and came home a personal best – 13th.  The winner had been 11th and I was 18th on the last re-start, so I guess you could say our conservative stance might have cost us but we did not tear up our race car which could have easily happened if we had forced the issue.  Unlike the well funded teams we would be out of business if we lost the car.

I am very proud of our guys and all the people who helped us and look forward to competing again.

See you at the races!
Danny Efland

Irmo, SC — The DRIVE4COPD 300 NASCAR Nationwide race February 25^th at Daytona will be Danny Efland’s first race as a newly minted Engineer. Danny has run an average of ten races a year during the last four years as a full time college student, including three at Daytona. Now he hopes to make racing an occupation.

Danny’s family team, Danny Efland Racing, will partner with Johnny Davis and his new team at Daytona running a Chevy Impala #4. The car will be locked into the field so Danny will concentrate on the race setup. Danny said, “I am very excited to be working with Johnny Davis again. He has years of experience in this series.”

Sponsorship for the race should be announced soon.

Irmo, SC — NASCAR Nationwide driver Danny Efland earned his engineering degree on Monday from the University of South Carolina. Now Ryan Newman is not the only engineer/driver in NASCAR! “It has been a real challenge,” said Danny, “I have raced an average of 10 times a year and still attended school full time. At times I have had to fly home between races such as happened between California and Las Vegas last year, to attend 3 days of class while the team stayed out west. I hope now that racing will become full time.

Danny wishes to thank his professors and the staff at USC for cooperating on missed assignments and exam makeups due to racing conflicts.

Danny continued, “As racing becomes more sophisticated I have seen advantages engineering has given me in understanding and communicating with crew chiefs and race engineers. I hope to use this degree to further my ambitions towards a life long racing career.”

See you at the races!
Danny Efland Racing

Irmo, SC — C3i Sports and Americans Honoring Americans will sponsor the Go Green #39 Ford Mustang for Danny Efland at Nashville Super Speedway on Saurday July 23rd.

Danny has had his best two Nationwide finishes in the Go Green car – both top twenties. Danny said, ” I have really come to respect the Go Green crew. They are great people to work with. ”

C3i Sports is a South Carolina company specializing in computer tracking of physical data for professional athletes.Company president Kevin Yates said “Working with Danny has been pure pleasure and I will make an announcement soon for continued support of his efforts to break into the front lines of NASCAR.”

See you at the races!
Danny Efland

Irmo, SC — Danny Efland will be in his own #07 C3i Sports Chevy Impala for the Nationwide race at Daytona on Friday, July 1st.  This will be the second race for the car this year.  Danny drove it under the Jimmy Means team #52 livery at Talladega.

Danny has competed in 4 races for the Go Green Racing team this season with a career best 16th place finish at Darlington.  His best finish at Daytona was during Speedweeks 2010 when he drove Cory Stott’s Chevy to a 21st place.

C3i Sports, is a Columbia, South Carolina company that creates computerized systems for tracking athlete’s development, will team with Americans Honoring Americans to sponsor the effort.  Both have been long time supporters of Danny’s racing.

See you at the races!
Danny Efland

Irmo, SC — Danny Efland ran Michigan this past weekend for Go Green Racing in their #39 Ford Mustang. Archie St. Hillaire, owner of Go Green, called at the last minute and offered Danny the ride. Obviously Danny was thrilled that a team the caliber of Go Green had him in their sights.

All went well in practice and qualifying. Danny put the car solidly in the field in 26th position starting side by side with Dale Jr.’s #7 car.

Everything went according to plan with Danny running as high as 14th until about half way when on a re-start something gave up in the rear end. After several green flag pit stops costing a number of laps, the team realized they would just have to ride the race out. Danny came home 33rd with no physical damage to the car.

Danny’s next race will be the mid season night race at Daytona on Friday July 1st. He will be back behind the wheel of his family’s #07 Chevy Impala sponsored by C3i Sports.

See you at the races!
Danny Efland

Irmo, SC — The racetrack at Dover, Deleware is an intersting place, to say the least. They combine a huge gambling casino with a horse track inside the NASCAR Track. The place is spic and span and shiny! The track is one mile long, concrete and very high banked.

Dover was my second effort in the C3i Sports Ford Mustang for Go Green Racing. It was the end of practice before we began to get a handle on the car but we were looking forward to qualifying.

Saturday dawned rainy and cool. Qualifying was washed out and most of us did not think we would even race. But after a great NASCAR track drying effort we were going at it only an hour or so behind schedule. We settled in and just ran our own race while staying out of other peoples wrecks.

On a caution after a rain delay with about 60 laps to go we gambled. The Go Green Mustang was in 20th place and one lap down. More importantly we were in the Lucky Dog position to get that lap back if there was another caution. We thought we had fuel to go to lap 185.

Somtimes the gamble does not pay off. There were no more cautions until the very end of the race and we ran out of gas on lap 183.

After losing a number of laps trying to get fuel we came home a respectable 23rd with a race car in one piece. If the race was re-run tomorrow I would be for making the same decision again but in this game you never know what the result will be.

It is really great to drive a car the caliber Archie St. Hillaire and his Go Green team put on the track and I look forward to driving for them in Charlotte in two week!

On a side note, I was invited to a NASCAR themed family night at the Dover Air Force Base. We ate pizza, signed autographs and had a wonderful time with a great bunch of people that are dedicated to the protection of our Country.

See you at the races!
Danny Efland