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Chicagoland Speedway – July 10, 2009

- Joey Logano earned his third NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) victory of the season in Friday night’s race at
Chicagoland Speedway.

- Toyota drivers Kyle Busch (second), Brian Vickers (third) and Jason Leffler (fourth) also posted top-five finishes.

- Camry drivers David Reutimann (eighth) and Trevor Bayne (12th) recorded top-15 results.

- Other Camry drivers in the field were Michael Annett (17th), Scott Lagasse, Jr. (20th) and Kelly Bires (40th).

- Toyota drivers led 176 of 200 laps at Chicagoland. Logano (96 laps), Busch (78 laps) and Vickers (two laps) all took
turns at the front of the field.

- Busch maintained his lead in the unofficial NNS standings by 192 points over second-place Carl Edwards. Other
Camry drivers in the top-20 in the point standings include Leffler (fourth), Logano (fifth), Lagasse, Jr. (12th), Annett
(15th) and Vickers (20th).

No. 20 Gamestop TOYOTA Camry

Finishing Position: 1st

Were you worried about the final restart?

“The last restart I got beat and the other restarts, too — I don’t know why. The final one (restart) — the 38 (Jason Leffler)
was there hanging with me and I just drove it into (turn) one as hard as I can and hope for the best. Once we got a big
enough gap — Kyle (Busch) got in that dirty air and we were able to pull away. I was really surprised. Dave (Rogers, crew
chief) thought I was done. I was like; ‘We’re not done yet. We’re not done yet.’ But, deep down inside I thought I was.
This is really awesome. We’ve come up second three times, so it’s cool to get a win.”

What does it mean to beat Kyle Busch?

“It’s awesome, man. If you looked at every one of my victories — it’s been a one-two finish between me and Kyle (Busch).
That’s pretty neat. New Hampshire — we finished one and two. So, that’s awesome.”

What does this win mean to you?

“What an awesome win, I’ll tell you. The fastest car won the race. I didn’t think the fastest car was going to win the race
there at the end. Clean air was huge. It’s cool to get the GameStop Toyota back in victory lane. We finished second in
New Hampshire and I think we finished fourth last week (Daytona), so it’s cool to keep this thing up front with these guys.
It’s so much fun coming over here.”

Joey Logano

“I didn’t think I had him (Kyle Busch). Especially on the restart where the 38 (Jason Leffler) was able to stick with me and
Kyle (Busch) was right behind me. I cleared the 38 (Jason Leffler) and Kyle (Busch) was about a half-a-car back. I went;
‘Oh boy, here we go. This is the end of this one.’ And I just kept driving my brains out hoping for the best and he (Kyle
Busch) got in the dirty air and I got in the clean air and just kept pulling away.”

Did you think the decision to not pit on the final caution was the wrong choice?

“This guy (Dave Rogers, crew chief) is a heck of a motivator. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard him on the radio, that guy
will make you drive harder than anyone out there. You can have a ninth-place car and he’ll make you think you have a
first-place car. Always being confident on the radio helps me a lot as a driver. I was going off what he said. At first I
thought this was going to be bad and then he made me think 50-50 of what it was going to be. Either way, I just drove my
brains out.”

DAVE ROGERS, crew chief, No. 20 GameStop Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing

What was your view of the final restart?

“For the entire night, the GameStop Toyota looked really good. Joey (Logano) did a great job. It’s just fun to watch
from my perspective how he negotiated lapped traffic — how he drove into turn one. Just a masterful job of driving, I
thought. The pit call there at the end was about three-years-old right now. I just thought that if the caution was long
enough and we had a chance to cool our tires and three or four cars stayed out with us, that clean air would prevail.
Everyone scans the entire field,

I was scanning everyone and they were saying; ‘Follow the leader.’ I thought we had
enough people to stay out to make it work, but we had such a big lead that I think a lot of the cars took the 18 (Kyle
Busch) as the leader and they followed him onto pit road and really hung us out there. I’m not going to take credit for
the call, the guys at Joe Gibbs Racing built an excellent race car and Joey Logano is a heck of a wheelman and made it
happen at the end.”

No. 18 Z-Line Design TOYOTA Camry

Finishing Position: 2nd

Did you have anything for Joey Logano at the end?

“It was unfortunate there we had to settle for second. Congratulations to Joey (Logano) and those guys. It’s another Joe
Gibbs one-two and it seems like it’s always this way anyways. Second best is just that. We weren’t the best car out
there tonight and Joey (Logano) was better than us.”

Kyle Busch

“It was just clean air. We just saw it tonight — it was a product of clean air. Even us on newer tires, if I could have
gotten to Joey’s (Logano) outside there that one time on the second lap on that restart, I would have had him . But I
couldn’t get there and he was able to get the clean air and pull away. That’s what I did earlier in the day until you catch
lap traffic then you start slowing down and those guys slow you down that much and everybody else catches up. It’s just
a product of what it is.”

How was your race?
“Joey (Logano) had a better car than us tonight. We worked all through practice trying to get the thing to where it would
tighten up into the corner and never really found that balance. It was always loose getting in, so you just can’t cha rge the
corners and that’s where I felt I was getting beat. Overall, it was a good night and we led a lot of laps. We still ended up
getting beat there. Lapped traffic was a pain in the neck tonight.

This track is just so aero-sensitive that you get around
anyone and you slow down a half-second then the guys behind you catch up. That one run I got through traffic just
barely before Joey (Logano) did, and then he got stalled in traffic and I pulled back away. It is just a product of the way
the cars are with the race track tonight. There really wasn’t an outside lane. I tried going out there a few times and it
was even looser up there. Unfortunately, we just didn’t have what it took and settled for second.”

Did you think taking your final pit stop was the right call?

“We had two (tires) and I felt like those two were going to be good enough in order to be able to beat him. I might have
been able to if I was able to get by Joey (Logano) on the outside of turn two there with like two laps after the restart. I
was just right to his corner and he closed the door on me. I wasn’t able to get up there. I felt like they (No. 20 team)
made the wrong call there and we were going to all go right by him because when you run laps on these tires they slow
down about a second in eight or 10 laps.

We never had a restart where anybody was in on the same tire so we didn’t
know how they were going to restart. They restarted running the same lap times if they were four brand new tires. With
the product of him being out front in clean air and the tires restarting at a good lap time then that made all the
difference.”

Did the long green runs affect your race strategy?

“It was good to see a good, clean race out there and nothing really get torn up. I don’t even know what the caution was
for in the middle part of the race there but NASCAR is famous for that. We’ve got a car in one piece and those restarts
weren’t that bad tonight so I thought about what I needed to do on the restart and I needed to beat the 32 (Brian Vickers)
or the 60 (Carl Edwards) up the lead but we never got there. The 20 (Joey Logano) was just that strong.”

No. 32 Dollar General TOYOTA Camry

Finishing Position: 3rd

Was there anything left to challenge for the win at the end?

“We had a good car and we had the best car at times, usually towards the end of a run. Those guys would get so far
ahead of us that we just couldn’t catch back up to them. I thought we had a shot for it at the end and then Carl (Edwards)
jumped on our outside and made it three wide. I always understood the rule as you had to stay in line or you got black-
flagged, but they didn’t black-flag him so maybe that’s not the rule. It definitely cost us a shot at the win.”

Brian Vickers

“I think it was a combination of two things. The 20 (Joey Logano) was probably the best car on the track at the time and
he was already pretty good. Track position I knew was going to be a lot, but my gut feeling was the tires were going to
be the way to go.

Coming down to the restart I felt like it was going to be between us and the 18 (Kyle Busch), the
fastest two cars with two tires. The track position mattered a lot but I don’t think it was all that. I think a lot of it was
the fact that we only had two, we didn’t get four. The lefts provide — at least for this tire at this track — a lot more grip
than people realize. The 20 (Joey Logano) car was good, it was pretty fast tonight.”

No. 38 Great Clips Toyota Camry

Finishing Position: 4th

Jason Leffler

“We had a really good race car tonight. Our Great Clips Camry was a top six or seven car — it was really fast on the long
runs. I tell you Scott Zipadelli (crew chief) made a great call there at the end to get the Great Clips Camry up front. Just
running through these first couple corners with clean air on it was such a big advantage.

It jumped us from sixth to
fourth there, it was such a great call. The guys are doing a great job for me there. We have to keep it rolling — one day
things are going to fall into place here, we’re going to have a little more speed and everything is going to come our way
and we’re going to win one.”

DAVID REUTIMANN, No. 10 Dollar General Toyota Camry, Braun Racing

Finishing Position: 8th

TREVOR BAYNE, No. 99 Aaron’s Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing

Finishing Position: 12th

MICHAEL ANNETT, No. 15 Hype Energy Drink Toyota Camry, Germain Racing

Finishing Position: 17th

SCOTT LAGASSE, JR., No. 11 E-Pack Manufacturing Toyota Camry, CJM Racing

Finishing Position: 20th

KELLY BIRES, No. 47 Toyota Camry, JTG-Daugherty Racing

Finishing Position: 40th

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