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Dodge Motorsports NNS Race Advance

Bubba Burger 250

Richmond International Raceway

Dodge in NASCAR Nationwide Series

• Dodge has two win in the 2010 NNS season (Justin Allgaier – Bristol and Brad Keselowski – Talladega).

• Penske Dodge’s have recorded two wins along with 10 top-five and 12 top-10 finishes through the first eight races of the season.

JUSTIN ALLGAIER – No. 12 Verizon Wireless Dodge

Highlights:

• Earned his first NASCAR Nationwide Series win this year at Bristol Motor Speedway, leading a 1-2 Penske Racing Dodge finish.

• Currently fourth in Nationwide Series driver standings, 103 points behind the leader.

• In the first eight NNS races, Allgaier has earned three top-five and five top-10 finishes.

• Allgaier was the 2009 Raybestos Rookie of the Year in the Nationwide Series.

• Earned his first career Nationwide Series pole at Memphis last fall.

• Second full year with Penske Racing in Nationwide Series.

• Won the ARCA championship in 2008, posting six wins and overcoming a 105-point deficit in final race.

BRAD KESELOWSKI – No. 22 Ruby Tuesday Dodge

Highlights:

• Keselowski leads the Nationwide Series driver standings with a 10 point advantage over second place.

• Keselowski earned his seventh consecutive top-five finish of the season with his win at Talladega Superspeedway. It’s the longest current top-five streak in the Nationwide Series.

• Keselowski has finished inside the top-10 in 35 of the last 39 Nationwide races.

• Earlier this year, he claimed back-to-back poles at Las Vegas and Bristol.

• Recorded career-high four victories in 2009 (Dover, Iowa, Michigan and Memphis).

DID YOU KNOW

• Brad Keselowski has made seven starts at Richmond International Raceway. He posted a pair of fourth–place finishes last season.

• In eight previous Nationwide starts at Richmond, Penske Racing entries have two top-five and three top-10 finishes.

• Justin Allgaier’s career-best Nationwide Series finish at RIR was an eighth in the fall event last year.

• Allgaier extended his top-15 streak to eight races last weekend in Talladega – the longest of his career.

• In 24 spring NNS events at RIR, the winner has started from the pole five times; four times in 28 fall events.

DODGE DRIVER QUOTES:

“I feel that racing at Richmond is as good as it gets. The fans get to see good, close racing – and it’s at night, which makes it that much better. You carry a lot of speed down the straightaways and when you get to the corner, it feels like you almost come to a complete stop. It’s a fun track, I wish there were more like it on the circuit, but I think that if someone tried to create a similar track, they’d have a hard time perfecting it the way that it’s been done there. It truly is a unique race track, and a lot of fun to drive.” – - Justin Allgaier, No. 12 Verizon Wireless Dodge

“Richmond is a track that every driver loves. You have room to be really aggressive, which you have to be with the Nationwide cars. We’re excited that we got our first win last weekend in Talladega and have got our Nationwide Series program right where we want it to be. We’re winning races, leading the points and we’re having fun. We just need to try and keep the momentum going into Richmond.” – - Brad Keselowski, No. 22 Ruby Tuesday Dodge

- Dodge Motorsports Press Release