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STATESVILLE, N.C. – No. 19 Stanley Dodge driver Elliott Sadler is one of the biggest sports fans in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series garage—if you don’t believe that just look at Sadler’s schedule this week.

Thursday will find him on the sidelines at the South Carolina-N.C. State football game, then Friday he’ll be at Eagles Landing Country Club in Stockbridge, Ga. playing golf in the Reed Sorenson Charity Golf Classic to benefit Speedway Children’s Charities. The Emporia Virginia native will watch Saturday night’s Alabama-Virginia Tech football game from the Coca-Cola suite at the Georgia Dome before getting back to work on Sunday behind the wheel of the Richard Petty Motorsports car for the NASCAR race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Sadler Quotes

SADLER ON RACING UNDER THE LIGHTS AT ATLANTA: “It’s great to have the Labor Day race back in the Southeast. Atlanta is a great race track — it’s fast, high-banked and multi-grooved so you can run anywhere. I think the biggest thing this weekend is racing under the lights. It’ll add speed to an already fast race track. You add in the double file restarts to make it more interesting. I think it’s going to be like the racing we saw in Charlotte for the All-Star race and the Coke 600. I’m really looking forward to an entertaining race.

SADLER ON COLLEGE FOOTBALL KICKOFF WEEKEND: “I’m a racecar driver first and foremost, but I absolutely love college football. I’m so excited for the season to start this weekend. I’m actually going to two games — I’m going to be on the South Carolina sideline cheering them on Thursday night. My spotter is a big Gamecocks fan and he always does his best to make sure we make it to a couple games. Then on Saturday night I’m going to be up in the Coca-Cola suite for the Virginia Tech-Alabama game. I’m a Virginia guy, so I’ll be pulling for the Hokies on Saturday. It’s so much fun to make it out to the games and be a fan.”

Additional Notes of Interest

• Starting September 1, fans can go to www.stanleymotorsports.com and in 500 words or less nominate their loved one, who is either a breast cancer survivor or someone currently diagnosed with breast cancer, to be Stanley’s “Lady in Pink” at Lowe’s Motor Speedway on Saturday, October 17, 2009.

• The “Lady in Pink” grand prize winner will have her name displayed on the TV panel of the No. 19 Stanley Dodge for the NASCAR Banking 500 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway and receive a VIP race package.

• Sadler is tied with Tony Stewart for the longest active DNF streak (47 races) of drivers that have competed in every race. Regan Smith is at 53 races, but has not competed in every race during that span.

• Elliott Sadler has officially become a member of the Twitter community. Follow Elliott’s updates by clicking HERE or by visiting www.twitter.com/Elliott_Sadler.

• Follow along with Richard Petty Motorsports each weekend for real-time inrace updates on Twitter at www.twitter.com/
RPMotorsports.

• Richard Petty Motorsports reached the Facebook “Friend” limit of 5,000 friends on Tuesday, Aug. 18. RPM has now moved its
postings to a “fan” page, which can be found by clicking HERE or visiting: http:// www.facebook.com/pages/Statesville-NC/
Richard-Petty-Motorsports/47023671652

• In 2009, Sadler leads all Richard Petty Motorsports drivers in bonus points (35 points). All of his bonus points have come from leading laps.

- Richard Petty Motorsports, Press Release