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· Kyle Busch led six times for 232 laps to earn WIX Filters Lap Leader of the Race honors in today’s Dickies 500. Busch claimed the honor for the seventh time this season.

· DID YOU KNOW? Only one driver has led more laps in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Texas than Busch: Tony Stewart, who led 278 laps in the 2006 Dickies 500 (fall race). Four drivers have led over 200 laps in 18 previous races at Texas: Stewart, Busch, Greg Biffle (219 laps in the 2005spring race) and Carl Edwards (212 laps in the 2008 fall race).

· Busch and Tony Stewart are tied for the lead (7-7) in the overall WIX Filters Lap Leader standings with two races remaining in the 2009 season.

· Busch surpassed the 1,000 mark in laps led this season in today’s race at Texas. He has now held the top spot 22 times in 17 races in 2009 for a total of 1,156 laps. Busch has led 62 times for 2,468 laps in 124 career superspeedway starts.

· Busch posted an 11th-place finish in today’s race. UNOFFICIALLY he is 13th in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship standings, 32 points ahead of 14th-place Matt Kenseth.

· DAVE ROGERS, CREW CHIEF, No. 18 M&M’s TOYOTA: “Looking at our numbers there, looking at the lap time that he had fallen off from the previous run, I thought for sure that we were going to make it until maybe off Turn 4 on the final lap. I don’t know if we didn’t get the car full or the fuel cell just didn’t pick up what we thought it could but we had several green flag runs in this race so we were pretty confident we knew what we had for fuel mileage. I’m not sure what happened. We’ll take it back and look at it, learn from it. We’re trying to focus on how well we ran and not where we finished today.”

WAS THERE ANY CONVERSATION IN THE FINAL LAPS ABOUT COMING IN? “No, we were committed to staying out. Like I said before, we’re out of the Chase. We’re not points racing. We really didn’t have anything to lose. If we would have pitted the 2 car certainly would have beat us. Our only shot at winning it was to stay out so we gambled. Sometimes you gamble you lose. We lost today but we had a really fast car, really proud of this M&M’s Toyota race team and pleased with our effort on the racetrack.”

WIX FILTERS LAP LEADER AWARD STANDINGS

Tony Stewart 7

Kyle Busch 7

Denny Hamlin 5

Juan Pablo Montoya 3

Kasey Kahne 3

David Reutimann 3

Ryan Newman 2

Martin Truex Jr. 2

Jeff Burton 1

Kevin Harvick 1

WIX FILTERS LAP LEADER AWARD WINNERS BY RACE

EVENT DRIVER
Daytona 500 Kyle Busch, 88 laps

Auto Club 500 Tony Stewart, three laps

Shelby 427 Jeff Burton, 61 laps

Kobalt Tools 500 Ryan Newman, three laps

Food City 500 Kyle Busch, 378 laps

Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 Denny Hamlin, 296 laps

Samsung 500 David Reutimann, 40 laps

Subway Fresh Fit 500 Tony Stewart, 19 laps

Aaron’s 499 Kyle Busch, 42 laps

Crown Royal 400 Denny Hamlin, 148 laps

Southern 500 Martin Truex Jr., 61 laps

Coca-Cola 600 Kyle Busch, 173 laps

Autism Speaks 400 David Reutimann, 25 laps

Pocono 500 Tony Stewart, 39 laps

LifeLock 400 Kyle Busch, nine laps

Toyota/Save Mart 350 Kasey Kahne, 37 laps

LENOX Industrial Tools 301 Tony Stewart, 40 laps

Coke Zero 400 Tony Stewart, 86 laps

LifeLock.com 400 Kasey Kahne, two laps

Allstate 400 at The Brickyard Juan Pablo Montoya, 116 laps

Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 Denny Hamlin, 91 laps

Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen Tony Stewart, 34 laps

CARFAX 400 David Reutimann, four laps

Sharpie 500 Kyle Busch, 68 laps

Pep Boys Auto 500 Martin Truex Jr., 68 laps

Chevy Rock & Roll 400 Denny Hamlin, 299 laps

Sylvania 300 Juan Pablo Montoya, 105 laps

AAA 400 Ryan Newman, 29 laps

Price Chopper 400 Tony Stewart, 37 laps

Pepsi 500 Juan Pablo Montoya, 78 laps

NASCAR Banking 500 Kasey Kahne, 67 laps

TUMS Fast Relief 500 Denny Hamlin, 206 laps

AMP Energy 500 Kevin Harvick, 28 laps

Dickies 500 Kyle Busch, 232 laps

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- Camp & Associates, Inc., for WIX Filters, Press Release