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Brian Scott - Photo Credit: Rainier Ehrhardt / Getty Images for NASCAR

No. 11 Doosan Team Notes of Interest

· Brian Scott and the No. 11 Doosan Toyota team prepare for this weekend’s Dollar General 300 Miles of Courage at Charlotte Motor Speedway in what will be one of the last four races of the 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series season.

· The No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota will feature a different look for Friday night’s 300-mile race as Doosan will be featured as the primary sponsor on the car. For the 13th straight year, Doosan has been the official machine tool supplier for Joe Gibbs Racing, and the racing program’s largest and longest running technical sponsor. Doosan is a South Korean conglomerate that owns a number of well-known U.S. brands including Bobcat and Ingersoll Rand – companies with which Joe Gibbs Racing also does business.

· Scott has made three previous starts at Charlotte Motor Speedway in NASCAR Nationwide Series competition with his best effort being an eighth-place finish that he scored during the track’s spring race earlier this year.

· Chassis #122 is the car Scott will race this weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway. This is the same car Scott raced to an eighth-place finish during the spring race at the 1.5-mile Charlotte Motor Speedway. Scott also scored a top-10 finish with Chassis #122 at Texas Motor Speedway in April. Chassis #106 will serve as the backup. This car has not yet been raced in 2011.

· Last Race: Scott was running in the top 10 in the Kansas Lottery 300 last weekend and was poised for a career-best finish at Kansas Speedway until a late-race caution foiled the team’s plans. Out of sticker tires at the time of the caution, the team was forced to use 22-lap scuffed tires for the final 15 laps of the race. The scuffed tires affected the handling on the Shore Lodge Toyota adversely and Scott slid back to 17th place by the time the checkered flag waved.

· Scott remains ninth in the NASCAR Nationwide Series driver point standings following his 17th-place run at Kansas last weekend. He did gain on eighth place and is only one point behind Steven Wallace who currently sits in eighth place.

· To access information on Brian Scott and No. 11 Team visit: www.joegibbsracing.com and follow twitter.com/bscottracing and twitter.com/joegibbsracing

Scott Quotes

What happened at Kansas?

“Ultimately what happened is we made a judgment error in pit strategy. When the caution waved with less than 20 laps to go we were in a position of being out of sticker tires. So our best option was to come in and put on cold tires that had cycled out with no heat that had 20 or 22 laps on them. We probably restarted seventh or eighth and the four used tires totally killed our car. We were sideways, no rear grip – all I did was hold onto it for the last handful of laps. So it was pretty frustrating on the one hand but on the other hand we were running really well and that part felt good.”

Talk about this week’s race at Charlotte:

“We had a really good car at Charlotte in the spring – obviously had the top-10 finish and that was after battling back from a pit road penalty. So I’m obviously looking forward to the race there this weekend especially considering how good we are performing as a team right now. We have four races left to get a win so hopefully this is the week.”

- Joe Gibbs Racing Press Release