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No. 24 Hefty® Odor Block™ Ford Fusion Photo Credit: Getty Images for NASCAR

Primary Sponsor: Hefty® Odor Block® (www.heftybrands.com)

Associate Sponsor: Crowne Plaza Kansas City; Overland Park (www.crowneplaza.com)

Kansas Fast Facts:

- This weekend will mark McClure’s 134th career Nationwide Series start and his fourth at the speedway if he can earn one of 43 starting positions.

- The Virginia driver’s best outing at the mile-and-a-half speedway came just a year ago where he scored a 25th-place finish.

- In three starts, McClure has suffered one DNF as a result of a transmission failure that occurred during his 2007 debut.

- The team will compete with chassis No. 35; it was used last weekend at Dover Int’l Speedway where it recorded a 29th-place finish.

- Hefty® Racing Team Welcomes Crowne Plaza Kansas City-Overland Park to Its List of Associate Sponsors:

The Crowne Plaza Kansas City-Overland Park will make its debut this weekend as an associate sponsor on the Hefty® Odor Block® sponsored car driven by McClure. The company’s logo will be displayed on the lower quarter panel of the No. 24 Ford.

Eric McClure

“Kansas Speedway is in a great area and I am looking forward to getting back there to race. My best race there came last year so I believe we can improve on that this weekend. Our focus will be on qualifying, however, and hopefully the outcome will be a positive one for this Hefty® team.”

Quick Notes

Race: Kansas Lottery 300

Length: 200 laps│300 miles

TV: Live ESPN2 │3:30 p.m. (ET)

Radio: Motor Racing Network (MRN) │3:30 p.m. (ET)

Sirius Radio 128 │3:30 p.m. (ET)

No. 24 Ford Specs

Chassis: No. 35

Engine: Roush Yates Engine

- Team Rensi Motorsports / Team McClure Inc. Press Release