Clint Bowyer Event Preview Fact Sheet

No. 07 Jack Daniel’s Chevrolet Impala SS - Event/Date: Toyota/Save Mart 350 – June 22, 2008 - Venue: Infineon Raceway – Sonoma, Calif.

* This Week’s Jack Daniel’s Chevrolet at Infineon Raceway … Clint Bowyer will pilot Chassis No. 250 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stable. This is a brand new Jack Daniel’s Chevrolet Impala SS that has yet to see any laps on a race track. 

* Sonoma Summary … Bowyer has two Sprint Cup Series starts at Infineon Raceway. He has a 19th-place average starting position and a 10th-place average finish. The Emporia, Kan., native completed all 220 laps over those two starts and notched a career-best fourth-place finish last year at the 10-turn Northern California road course. 

* Back and Forth, the Final Cut … Bowyer will travel back and forth between Infineon and The Milwaukee Mile this weekend as he pursues the NASCAR Nationwide Series championship. On Saturday, immediately following Sprint Cup final practice at Infineon, the six-time NNS winner will helicopter from Sonoma to Napa County Airport where he will board team owner Richard Childress’ Hawker 800 business jet, which can travel up to 440 knots (500 mph), bound for Waukesha (Wis.) County Airport/Crites Field. Upon arrival at Crites Field, Bowyer will board another helicopter and fly to “America’s Legendary Oval” just in time for driver’s introductions. The 1,566-mile one-way trip should take just about four hours. If all goes according to plan, Bowyer should be on the ground at The Milwaukee Mile by 7 p.m. local time. By rule, Bowyer will start the race from the rear of the field because he won’t arrive in time to qualify or attend the mandatory driver’s meeting. 

* It’s Gotta Turn Around … Last weekend at Michigan, Bowyer started 11th but struggled with a temperamental-handling Jack Daniel’s Chevy all afternoon and ultimately finished 26th, one lap down to the leaders. It was the 29-year-old driver’s fourth-straight finish of 25th or worse, dropping him from 11th to 12th in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points. On the flip side, the two-time Sprint Cup Series winner started out 2008 by finishing no better than 19th in the season’s first three races. Mr. Jack’s Crew bounced back from the rocky start by rattling off seven-straight top 10s, including one win and three top fives. 

* DIRECTV, Ice Road Truckers, RCR’s No. 07 Team … To capitalize on DIRECTV’s partnership with the History Channel’s hit reality television program Ice Road Truckers, several members of RCR’s No. 07 team will be featured in mini-documentary interstitials during this season’s run of Ice Road Truckers. The interstitials will feature comparisons between RCR’s No. 07 DIRECTV Chevrolet and the equipment the team uses each week to compete in the Sprint Cup Series and the big rigs on the show. The June 15 episode featured tire specialist Charles Moles while engine tuner Cameron Brown will be part of this Sunday night’s show. Bowyer, crew chief Gil Martin, a handful of other members of the No. 07 team and additional RCR employees will be highlighted throughout the season. Season two of Ice Road Truckers airs on the History Channel Sunday nights at 9 p.m. Eastern Time and 8 p.m. Central. 

* Testing One, Two, Three, Testing … On Tuesday, June 16, Bowyer and his Gil Martin-led crew tested at Kentucky Speedway, a mile-and-a-half, D-shaped race track located in Sparta, Ky., approximately 35 miles southwest of Cincinnati. * RCR at Infineon … Richard Childress is tied for third on the Infineon Raceway all-time car owner win list. Dale Earnhardt won the 1995 Save Mart Supermarkets 300 and Robby Gordon won the Dodge/Save Mart 350 in 2003. Additionally, in 37 starts at the 10-turn stadium course, RCR owns one pole, 10 top-five and 17 top-10 finishes. Kevin Harvick, Jeff Burton and Bowyer finished second, third and fourth, respectively, in last year’s Toyota/Save Mart 350. 

* Keep on Rolling … Bowyer has been running at the end of every race dating back to Phoenix in November 2006, a streak of 52 races. The only other driver running at the end of more consecutive races is Harvick who broke his own modern-era streak by finishing his 59th consecutive race last weekend at Michigan International Speedway without recording a DNF (did not finish). * Happy Birthday Geato … Mike Geato, mechanic and former tire specialist on Mr. Jack’s Crew will celebrate his 38th birthday on Friday, June 20. Geato is a native of Portland, Conn., and has been with RCR since January 2005. 

* Coming Home … Mr. Jack’s gas man, Mike Morrison, is a native of the Golden State. Morrison, 29, is from Redding, approximately 190 miles north of Sonoma. 

* Meet the Press … Bowyer will be available behind the Jack Daniel’s transporter inside the Sprint Cup Series garage area Friday, June 20th at 11:40 a.m. to field questions from the gathered media. 

* Nationwide News … Following final Sprint Cup Series practice at Infineon, Bowyer heads for The Milwaukee Mile for the Camping World RV Rental 250. The 17th of 35 races on the 2008 Nationwide Series schedule will be televised live on ESPN2 Saturday, June 21st beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The race will also be broadcast from coast to coast on the Motor Racing Network and Sirius Satellite Radio. Qualifying will be televised live on ESPN2 the same day at 5:30 p.m. EDT. MRN and Sirius Satellite Radio will carry qualifying updates live. 

* Up to Speed … The Toyota/Save Mart 350 from Infineon Raceway will take the green flag Sunday, June 22nd at 5 p.m. EDT. The race will be televised live on TNT beginning at 3:30 p.m. EDT and broadcast from coast-to-coast on the Performance Racing Network and Sirius Satellite Radio. Qualifying will be televised live on SPEED Friday, June 20th at 7 p.m. EDT. PRN and Sirius Satellite Radio will also broadcast qualifying updates live.

• CLINT BOWYER QUOTES

It’s one thing to go back and forth between Pocono and Nashville or Michigan and Kentucky but Sonoma to Milwaukee has to be a nightmare.

“This weekend is the killer. You’re tired and miserable all weekend but it is only one weekend. You just have to get plenty of rest going into the weekend to be prepared. We’ve run well at Sonoma so I’m excited about going out there. Infineon is the one road course that I enjoy running. I’ve struggled at Watkins Glen but I really enjoy Sonoma. I like Milwaukee as well so it helps that both races are good tracks for us and tracks I enjoy racing on.”

What time do you usually pull into Sonoma after you run Milwaukee?

“Man. It’s late. I know in 2006 I only had a couple hours of sleep at the hotel and then we went straight to the track. Of course, you’re sleeping on the airplane as much as you can but everybody knows that sleeping on an airplane can be difficult.”

You finished fourth at Sonoma last year and, obviously, there was some strategy that played out but were you pleasantly surprised with that result?

“We finished 10th the first time we were out there so I had been moderately successful at Infineon once before. There was some strategy at the end but that’s built into that whole package. Fuel mileage is so important at road course races. You pull a jet out of the carburetor, basically everything you can do to the carburetor to get good fuel mileage which makes your car slower. It doesn’t race as well but on a road course you don’t have to race as well. You have to race the race track, get on pit road first, do those things and you’ll get a good finish. We just stuck to our guns. We had more speed in practice but we stuck to our game plan and it paid off.”

What are the elevation changes at Sonoma like?

“I think it’s neat. It’s something I never had a chance to do and was never around early in my career. I think it’s really cool. Infineon has so many different characteristics. It has the speed on the straightaways and through the esses. It has up hills and down hills. It has tight corners. It’s a lot more technical than a lot of tracks I’ve ever raced on. Watkins Glen, for example, is wide-open and go for broke. You’re balls to the wall the whole time. Those two are definitely two different animals but I prefer Sonoma.”