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No. 33 Cheerios/Hamburger Helper Chevrolet

Race Notes and Quotes

This Week’s Cheerios/Hamburger Helper Chevrolet at Chicagoland Speedway … Clint Bowyer will pilot chassis No. 371 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stable this weekend at Chicagoland Speedway. This is a brand new No. 33 Chevrolet Impala that will turn its first laps during opening practice on Friday.

Career Chicago Stats … This week’s 400 miler marks Bowyer’s 208^th career NSCS start.

• In five NSCS starts at Chicago, Bowyer owns one top-five and four top-10 finishes with his best effort of fourth coming in the July 2010 event.
• He has completed 100 percent of the laps (1,338 of 1,338) contested at CLS during his career.
• The Emporia, Kan., native has led two laps at the 1.5-mile facility.
• Bowyer owns a 15^th-place average starting position and an average finishing position of 10.8.

Red and Yellow … The familiar Cheerios/Hamburger Helper paint scheme is on Bowyer’s No. 33 Chevrolet this weekend.

In the Loop … Bowyer owns some impressive NASCAR loop data statistics to go with his four top-10 finishes at the Joliet, Ill.-based facility. He is eighth in average running position and has the ninth best driver rating with a 90.8 rating. He has also spent 802 of 1,338 laps running in the top 15.

Full Moon over Virginia … Starting from the fifth position under almost a full moon night (Monday night, September 12th,was the actual full moon) in the state capitol of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Bowyer and the No. 33 Cheerios/Hamburger Helper Chevrolet team fought back from on-track incidents and no air conditioning to finish 22^nd in the Wonderful Pistachios 400 at Richmond International Raceway.

Points Racing … Bowyer is currently 14^th in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver championship point standings, just 12 markers behind AJ Allmendinger for 13^th.

CLINT BOWYER QUOTES:

What do you think of Chicagoland Speedway being one of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup tracks?

“I don’t know. Sometimes moving track dates around is a good thing. Change isn’t always a bad thing. We can’t be afraid of change. I think it could be good.”

Does it feel weird that New Hampshire Motor Speedway isn’t the first race in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup this year?

“New Hampshire (Motor Speedway) has been kind of my go-to track to get things turned around. We’re still going there though next week and just because it’s not the first race, it doesn’t mean it’s not an important one.”

If you could be the president of NASCAR for a day, what track would you add to the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup?

“I don’t really know. I can’t believe I would ever say this, but I might move one of the road courses to the Chase. It’s been, for whatever reason, some of the most exciting racing that we’ve had all season. The tough thing about that is, it’s a make or break you kind of track. There are a lot of things that could happen and a lot of craziness and wrecks that could happen. You either make up or lose a lot of ground. I don’t know. With so much that rides on the line with the Chase, it would certainly shake things up.”

You’ve been in the top 10 in four of the last five races at Chicagoland Speedway, is that one of your favorite tracks to run at?

“Well, I didn’t know that. I hope that we continue with a top-five run or, better yet, a win. That would be big.”

- Richard Childress Racing, Press Release