HOME BOUND WITH ONE GOAL: For the second race of the 2010 season, the NASCAR Nationwide Series will make its way across the country to Auto Club Speedway where Bakersfield, California native Kevin Harvick will pilot the No. 33 Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI) Rheem Tankless Water Heaters Chevrolet. Looking for his first career win at the two-mile California track, Harvick will make his 15th career Nationwide Series start when the flag waves for the Stater Bros. 300 on Saturday.

In 14 previous Nationwide Series starts at the track, Harvick has eight top-five and 12 top-10 finishes. He has led 118 laps and completed 99.9 percent of laps attempted (2101 of 2102 laps). His worst finish is 14th in his first career Nationwide Series start at the track in 2000.

The only victory Harvick has at Auto Club Speedway came in 2002 behind the wheel of an International Race of Champions (IROC) car as he went on to win the 2002 True Value IROC points title in just his first year competing in the series. The win helped him to become the sixth rookie and the first driver representing the Nationwide Series (for his 2001 Nationwide Series title) to win the IROC championship. In addition to the win at California, he also finished ninth at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway, third at Chicagoland Speedway and fourth at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the four-race IROC series.

THIRD YEAR CHARM: Rheem Manufacturing returns to Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI) for their third season as a primary sponsor of the No. 33 KHI Chevrolet. In addition to the primary sponsorship, Rheem also serves as an associate sponsor for the entire season on both the No. 33 Nationwide Series car and on KHI’s No. 33 2009 Truck Series championship team with Ron Hornaday.

WEST-COAST PAIRING: The 2010 season will mark the second full season that Harvick and crew chief Ernie Cope join forces in the Nationwide Series. Both west coast natives, Harvick from Bakersfield, California and Cope from Tacoma, Washington, enter the season looking to continue to bring their west coast swing to NASCAR’s top ranks. During the 2009 season, the pair earned two wins, including Harvick’s first win in a KHI-owned car, two poles, 14 top-five and 16 top-10 finishes in 22 starts for Harvick.

CHASSIS HISTORY: For the second week in a row, the No. 33 Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI) team will unload a brand-new chassis for KHI co-owner Kevin Harvick. The two-time Nationwide Series champion will pilot chassis No. 053 as he looks for his first career Nationwide Series victory at Auto Club Speedway.

PREVIOUS RACE RECAP: For the 2010 Nationwide Series season opener, Harvick piloted the No. 33 car from the fourth starting position to his first top-five finish of the season with KHI teammate Tony Stewart winning the race. With a “freaky fast” Jimmy John’s Chevrolet, Harvick led 37 laps and overcame a mid-race accident to earn a strong third-place finish.

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Kevin Harvick

Auto Club Speedway is one of seven tracks on the 2010 Nationwide Series schedule that you have yet to score a Nationwide Series win. With this being the closest track to Bakersfield, what would it mean to mark this track off the list and win in front of family and friends?

“I think it would be a cool place to win just for the fact that we’ve run really good there over the past few years and have never been able to close the deal and get it done. So, obviously we have a lot of fans there and family and friends there and it would be cool to run in front of them because the only race I’ve ever won there is an IROC race. Like I said, we’ve been really close several times in the Nationwide car and just have to get it done.”

Can you talk about the local racing program in Bakersfield and the things you have done to support and give back to the local racing community?

“We’ve always been very supportive of the racing community. I used to go back and race there when they had Mesa Marin and I went back a couple of years ago and raced at the dirt track. Now we have the local youth racing series that we support.”

No. 33 Rheem Tankless Water Heaters Chevrolet Specs:

Chassis: 053

Engine: ECR

Kevin Harvick Nationwide Stats at California

Year No. Team Start Finish

2009 33 KHI 10 4

2009 33 KHI 9 2

2008 33 KHI 9 11

2008 33 KHI 6 3

2007 33 KHI 12 7

2007 33 KHI 6 6

2006 21 RCR 3 2

2006 33 KHI 28 8

2005 21 RCR 6 2

2004 21 RCR 23 3

2004 21 RCR 3 8

2003 21 RCR 1 3

2001 2 RCR 5 5

2000 2 RCR 38 14

*KHI: Kevin Harvick Inc.

*RCR: Richard Childress Racing

QUICK NOTES

Race length: 150 laps/300 miles

Banking: 14-degrees in the turns

11-degrees on the frontstretch

3-degrees on the backstretch

Track layout: 2 miles

Shape: D-shaped Oval

Pre-Race Schedule:

Friday:

First Practice: 2:00 p.m. – 2:50 p.m., ET

Final Practice: 4:40 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., ET

Saturday:

Qualifying: 12:35 p.m., ET

TV: The Stater Bros. 300 can be seen live on ESPN2 at 5:00 p.m., ET.

Radio: The Motor Racing Network (MRN) will broadcast the race live at 5:00 p.m., ET.

About Rheem:

Rheem Manufacturing Company (www.rheem.com) is a privately held company with headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. In its 81st year of operation, the company distributes throughout North America and world markets an award-winning line of eco-friendly, technologically advanced residential and commercial heating, cooling, water heating, whole-home standby generators, controls, pool and spa heaters, indoor air purification products and commercial boilers. The nation’s leading consumer products review magazine recently reported that Rheem products have been rated most reliable among all leading brands by tens of thousands of consumers. The premium brands of Rheem Manufacturing Company include Ruud, Raypak and Rheem. Rheem Manufacturing Company is the primary sponsor of Kevin Harvick Inc.’s No. 33 Chevrolet Nationwide® Series car and is an associate sponsor of KHI’s No 33 truck in the Camping World Truck Series.

About Kevin Harvick Inc.:

Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI), established in 2001 by Kevin and DeLana Harvick, is an 80,000 sq. ft. facility located in Kernersville, N.C. Home of the 2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship team, KHI enters 2010 in its seventh full year of competition with two full-time Truck Series teams and one full-time Nationwide Series team. Four-time Truck Series champion Ron Hornaday returns to the helm of the No. 33 Truck team looking for his fifth title and third championship for KHI (2009 and 2007), while Sprint Cup series stars Kevin Harvick and Elliott Sadler guide the No. 2 Truck team. Two-time NASCAR Nationwide Series champion Harvick will again shine as the lead driver of the No. 33 Nationwide Series team as he continues to make his mark in motorsports and establish KHI as one of the top teams in NASCAR competition. For more information about KHI and its teams, please visit www.KevinHarvickInc.com.

- Kevin Harvick Inc. Press Release

Chevrolet Logo

Hornaday secured the unprecedented feat with a fourth place finish in tonight’s race. Heading in to the season’s final race next week at Homestead-Miami Speedway, the battle for the 2009 NCWTS owners’ title is still undecided. DeLana Harvick holds a 60-point lead over second place.

“ I couldn’t think of a better track and I love Phoenix,” said the newly-crowned champion. “This is a compliment to the team. It takes a lot of people to do this, all the guys back at the shop. Just had another great truck Mark Smith with the motor program and what he has done and with Chevrolet and everything they do including the wind tunnel and all their support and Pratt and Miller. It just takes a bunch of people and I am just fortunate enough that my wife and I are old enough that we are just at the race track and having fun.”

Johnny Sauter, No. 13 Fun Sand/Rodney Atkins/Curb Records Silverado finished fifth in the race scheduled for 150-laps but a caution on lap 149 forced the race in to overtime for a green-white-checkered finish.

Matt Crafton, No. 88 Australian Gold/Menards Silverado, finished eighth to give Team Chevy four of the top-10 finishers in tonight’s race. Crafton is second in the standings, 150 points ahead of third place as the season winds down to one race to go.

Kyle Busch (Toyota) and Aric Almirola (Toyota) finished second and third respectively.

The final event of the 2009 season will November 20 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

NASCAR CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES

LUCAS OIL 150

PHOENIX INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY

POST RACE NOTES AND QUOTES

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

No. 4 Longhorn Chevrolet Silverado Photo Credit: Todd Warshaw, Getty Images

KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 4 LONGHORN SILVERADO, RACE WINNER:

HOW MUCH FUN IS IT TO HAVE A GREAT TRUCK?

“It is pretty awesome to have a vehicle like this. I mean, from the time we unloaded it, it was just flat awesome.

“To have (Ron) Hornaday clinch the drivers’ championship and me win the race is pretty cool. I mean we got to do twin burnouts out there. I couldn’t hardly do a burnout; he definitely had me topped on that one. I couldn’t get my tires spinning. That was not good. But it was pretty cool anyway.”

Kevin Harvick wins the Lucas Oil 150 at Phoenix International Raceway Photo Credit: Todd Warshaw, Getty Images

“Well Ron has been the catalyst of everything that has turned this team in to championship caliber. You know you don’t have worry about what is happening from the driver’s seat, you know that everything is coming out of the driver’s seat that is absolutely possible. From there, we have built a team around him that was capable of giving him the trucks that he needed. Like I said, he gets everything out of them that he can. It is fun to watch and Ron is a great friend of mine. Meant a lot to me coming up through my career. To win a second championship with him is pretty cool.”

Ron Hornaday Jr., driver of the No. 33 VFW.org Chevrolet Silverado, celebrates with the series championship trophy after clinching the title with a fourth place finish in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Lucas Oil 150 at Phoenix International Raceway on November 13, 2009 in Avondale, Arizona. Photo Credit: ToddWarshaw/Getty Images for NASCAR

“We aren’t done yet. We have to get the owner’s title too. Kyle (Busch) is pretty close to us. KHI, I can’t say enough for them. These trucks are awesome. I don’t know what happened during the pit stop, but for them to rally back…and Rick Ren (crew chief) with that short gas just to keep us out in front of that No. 88. It is so much fun to drive for Kevin and DeLana (Harvick), I can’t believe. VFW, Copart, Longhorn, I can just sit here and name everybody, it has been great. Turtle Wax, Georgia Boots, Miller Welders, thank you for all the help. Wiley X, Indian Motorcycles. It is unbelievable. This is a lot of fun.

“I am glad Kevin won this race, that is cool. This is a compliment to the team. It takes a lot of people to do this, all the guys back at the shop. Just had another great truck.

“Our favorite truck got wrecked, it really ran good here. These guys brought this truck back, I knew I didn’t have a winning truck, but I had to play it smart in points.”

A GREAT START TO THE SEASON, CONSISTENT, FIVE WINS IN A ROW MID-SEASON, HOW DID YOU STAY FOCUSED DURING THE LAST HALF OF THE SEASON?

“We had the post lead and then we ended up wrecking at Dover. These guys never say quit. Kevin kept building me new truck each week. Kevin had a brand new truck here which will be for 2010. He is going to run one next week. I can’t say enough for everyone.

“Jack Sprague, buddy, I wish you were out here racing me. I got four so now you have to come back and get another one.

“This is unbelievable. Four. We still have hard work to do. Kyle is pretty tough. We have to stick with him at Homestead to get that owner’s”

Matt Crafton

“No I felt like we had a top-five truck. We didn’t have a winning truck tonight for sure, but I felt we had a top five truck. We just lost a lot of spots there on that last deal. The crew guys said they dropped a lug nut and we got behind on that and some of the guys beat us out on the fuel stop and I don’t think they took but a splash and there were some of the Toyotas saving fuel there in the end. They must have put just enough in it to make it.

“For some reason we were really good at the beginning……..I shouldn’t say really good but pretty good. And then on the last two runs we got really off for some reason. I don’t know if it was air pressure or what we did but it was definitely off at the end. I don’t know. Not a horrible day but not a good day.”

HOW ABOUT THE CHAMPIONSHIP? YOU LOST TO ONE OF THE BEST.

“I’m over it. I want to win races. I mean congratulations to Ron and the whole deal. They were good the whole year and they were winning races and we got out fuel-mileaged and beat on that. I look forward to the new……I should say the old pit rules the way it should be done and I definitely think we are going to be a lot better next year.”

(L-R) DeLana Harvick, team owner Kevin Harvick, Ron Hornaday Jr. (C), driver of the No. 33 VFW.org Chevrolet, Linda Hornaday, and crew chief Rick Ren, celebrate after Hornaday clinched the series title with a fourth place finish in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Lucas Oil 150 at Phoenix International Raceway on November 13, 2009 in Avondale, Arizona Photo Credit: Getty Images

CONGRATULATIONS ON THE CHAMPIONSHIP

“Thank you. I couldn’t think of a better track and I love Phoenix. It looked pretty grim for a while. But its not over by far because we are racing Kyle Busch for the owner points and that is the true goal. That shows how good our team is and Kyle has been really racing strong and has six or seven wins this year. So we are going to do what we can to hold them off down there but we are going to go down there and have a little fun and race a little different.”

WAS YOUR GOAL TONIGHT TO RACE SMART AND TO NOT MAKE ANY MISTAKES?

“You didn’t watch the race because we tried to race smart but we left the gas can out the back and that put us in the back and I was sweating it out because we got behind the 11 and I started pushing real bad and I thought my right front tire started going. I put about five turns of brake in and I started sliding and I learned something.

“On the third to the last restart it wouldn’t turn and started shoving the tires and I had to put more rear brake in it just then. Luckily that kind of happened in that run because it kept us in the top-five and Johnny Sauter was really coming strong so…….we came home in the top-five and that’s what we needed to do to keep Matt behind us. He’s a heck of a racer and I am glad they turned the program around and gave us a run for our money all year long and there are just so many people to think and you guys have been following it all year and see what it takes to go racing with Copart, Longhorn, VFW, Georgia Boots, and Turtle Wax. It really takes a lot and having all those sponsors to work together and do what they have done is just great.

“Mark Smith with the motor program and what he has done and with Chevrolet and everything they do including the wind tunnel and all their support and Pratt and Miller. It just takes a bunch of people and I am just fortunate enough that my wife and I are old enough that we are just at the race track and having fun.”

HOW SIGNIFICANT AND HOW BIG OF A DEAL IS THIS CHAMPIONSHIP TO YOU TO SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM SPRAGUE AND BE THE FIRST 4 TIME CHAMPION?

“You said it right there. I got one up on Sprague and that’s all that counts. I said it out there, that Sprague needs to come back and try and get a fourth one and just keep me racing. Jack and I have been fighting for wins and championships back and forth and Jack had to quit and give me a little head start so we went back and forth and he had 23 then I had 24 then he had 25 so its just been a fun battle with Jack and I wish he was still out there because he is a heck of a little racer. I don’t know. Maybe I will have to build another trophy case. I only have five so maybe I will have to move one over and put two together so.

“Its been a long week because Lindy’s mom went through surgery and she came out of that real well and they had given her a thirty five percent chance of surviving it and she is doing real well and at home today. So it will be good to get home and see her tomorrow.”

YOU HAVE TALKED BEFORE ABOUT GUYS COMING AND SLEEPING ON YOUR COUCH. BUT HOW COOL IS IT TO THINK THAT YOU HAD JIMMIE JOHNSON, WHO MIGHT BE A FOUR TIME CHAMPION, YOU ARE NOW A FOUR TIME CHAMPION AND YOU GOT HARVICK IN THE MIX. YOU LOOK BACK ON THAT AND COULD YOU IMAGINE THAT GUYS WHO WERE SLEEPING ON YOUR COUCH WOULD HAVE AS MANY CHAMPIONSHIPS AND YOU WOULD HAVE AS MANY CHAMPIONSHIPS AND ALL THAT STUFF BACK THEN?

“My wife made me sleep on the couch just last week. (laughs). Its kind of cool and I think this is kind of the payback with what Kevin and Delana have done for me and like I said its not over. We have to win that owners point championship. They definitely deserve it because they have given me great trucks all year. And the truck that Kevin built tonight was a 2010 that we are going to run next year and we have had a lot of help from Chevrolet and because Kevin never quits. I went into the shop a couple of weeks ago and there were like fourteen trucks and then I came back and there were like five trucks. I said, ‘where did all the trucks go?’. He said, ‘Kevin sold them all and you are getting all brand new trucks again next year. And when we won five races in a row they were all brand new trucks and so my hats off to the boss man right there. He has what it takes to win them and oh, here is the boss lady…..I forgot. But its been fun and we are not done. As long as Kevin and Delana has me, we are going to win some more of them.”

RON – IT IS UNUSUAL TO WRAP UP A TITLE WITH ONE RACE TO GO, THAT HAS TO BE A NEW EXPERIENCE FOR YOU:

“It took me 30 years to do it. If you look at the year, we had a pretty good points lead and then we ended up blowing a tire at Dover and Matt caught us. Then we had another bad race and ran out of fuel. Like I said, we’re not done racing. We have to go down and race Kyle Busch. Those owner’s points mean more to me than a trophy because it says the whole team worked hard and we beat everybody. So we are going to go out and do what we have got to do. Kyle is on a roll. He almost won three of them last weekend. We are going to go out there and get the owner’s championship…so we are going to keep racing.”

RON – TALK ABOUT HOW SPECIAL THIS TRACK IS TO YOU FROM YOUR SOUTHWEST TOUR AND WINSTON WEST DAYS:

“Kevin was telling Carmichael (Ricky) that I was racing here when it was dirt, before they even started it. Oh, fresh asphalt. It is cool. I am not totally talking about the championship. It is cool for me to win it, but it isn’t over yet, it is not even close. Kevin and DeLana deserve a lot more because of the equipment, the people they put in places. It takes a lot. Without our sponsors that work together and the program they put together to make it happen, this is what it is all about.”

RON – IS THERE AN ADDED SENSE OF BEING SPECIAL IN THE VFW TRUCK WITH BEING SO CLOSE TO VETERAN’S DAY AND COMING ON THE HEELS OF THE TRAGEDY AT FT. HOOD? “

I appreciate that. The last few have been VFW races it is hard to go out there and see all those soldiers and see the tragedy at Ft. Hood. A lot of support from VFW. I can’t say enough about them. I had the opportunity to go to Iraq and see what the men and women do first hand. TV, newspaper, they really don’t do it justice. I brought pictures home and tried to explain it to my wife. About the smells and everything else. My hat is off to all the men and women. It is pretty cool and it is special and thanks for bringing it up.”

RON – TALK ABOUT HOW UNIQUE IS THE RELATIONSHIP IS BETWEEN YOU AND KEVIN:

“I’m mad that I didn’t get to go up there and race him for the win. We had to play it smart and do what we had to do to overcome a pit stop failure. Rick Ren made a great call to only put one can of fuel in to beat the No. 88 out of the pits. It worked out great. It is always fun to race Kevin because you know he is going to run 120 mile an hour faster than you. I remember the first time I ran his Nationwide car, he was in the second car and he turned me sideways to pass me. I was like “Doesn’t he know he owns this car? I couldn’t go run into the back of him just cause he did that. That was the first experience I had with Kevin, he doesn’t really car whose car it is he is going to move you out of the way to race it.”

KEVIN – SAME QUESTION:

“For me, I came up through my career. I was thinking back to races at Mesa Marin, the nights the he and Rick Carelli and Mike Chase and all the guys that used to race in, it was open comp back then, then Southwest Tour. I was sitting in the grandstands. And now I have Ron and Rick and Ernie Cope and a couple of kids from the West Coast, and Andy Houston that came up through the Truck Series, so it is just a lot of us that raced together. It is about the race vehicle. These guys go out and race it and enjoy it”

About General Motors:

General Motors, one of the world’s largest automakers, traces its roots back to 1908. With its global headquarters in Detroit, GM employs 209,000 people in every major region of the world and does business in some 140 countries. GM and its strategic partners produce cars and trucks in 34 countries, and sell and service these vehicles through the following brands: Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, GM Daewoo, Holden, Opel, Vauxhall and Wuling. GM’s largest national market is the United States, followed by China, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Canada, Russia and Germany. GM’s OnStar subsidiary is the industry leader in vehicle safety, security and information services. General Motors acquired operations from General Motors Corporation on July 10, 2009, and references to prior periods in this and other press materials refer to operations of the old General Motors Corporation. More information on the new General Motors can be found at www.gm.com.

- GM Racing Communications Press Release

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WINNING COMBINATION: Heading to Phoenix International Raceway (PIR), Kevin Harvick looks to defend his truck series win from one year ago, this time behind the wheel of the No. 4 Longhorn Chevy Silverado.

In nine previous starts at the track, Harvick has recorded three wins, all for Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI), four top-five and four top-10 finishes.

In his four previous starts for KHI in the Truck Series, Harvick has started no worse than 10th, recorded three wins and his worst finish is fifth. In those four races, he has a starting average of 4.75, an average finish of 2.0, has led 234 laps and completed 100 percent of attempted laps (652 of 652).

100 STRONG: This weekend when Kevin Harvick climbs behind the wheel of the No. 4 Longhorn Chevy Silverado, he will make his 100th career start in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. In 99 previous starts, Harvick has accumulated four wins (three at PIR and all for KHI), 29 top-five and 42 top-10 finishes. In addition, he has completed 16, 236 laps and led 934. Harvick’s first career start in the series came at Mesa Marin (Calif.) on October 15, 1995, driving for his father, Mike Harvick.

ELITE GROUP: Harvick became the first driver at PIR to win a race in all three of NASCAR’s elite series by scoring his first Truck Series win in 2002, followed by a sweep in 2006 of the Nationwide and Cup Series events. Kyle Busch has also completed this task at PIR.

BEFORE THE RACE: QUOTES WITH DRIVER KEVIN HARVICK:

Returning to Phoenix International Raceway as the defending Truck Series race winner, what are you expectations?

“I always seem to do well at Phoenix, so I’m excited to see what we can do with the Longhorn Chevy this weekend. I run well in the Truck Series and every time I climb in the truck, I expect to be in contention at the end to win. Our truck program has really peaked and that makes it a lot of fun to race and see what we can do on the track. Hopefully at the end of the night, I can defend my win from last year and get the No. 4 team their first win of the season.”

Why do you have so much success at Phoenix International Raceway?

“Phoenix is one of those places that I grew up racing on. I raced a lot in the Southwest Tour, Winston West and Truck Series races at Phoenix. I have learned the characteristics of the race track and the little things that you can do when your car is not handling perfect. I like the flat race tracks. Racing on Phoenix my entire career has also translated into flat track success on the entire circuit.”

Does Phoenix fall into the same category as a short track like Martinsville or Richmond?

“I don’t really see Phoenix as a short track. Even though places like Phoenix and New Hampshire are only a mile, they both have a lot of room to race. Phoenix is always a fun race track. There are always at least two lanes, and sometimes even more, to pass.”

CHASSIS HISTORY:

This weekend the No. 4 Longhorn team will unload chassis No. 039 at Phoenix International Raceway for KHI co-owner Kevin Harvick. This is a brand-new chassis to the KHI stables and this weekend will mark its race debut.

PREVIOUS RACE RECAP:

Ricky Carmichael made his last scheduled start of the season for KHI at Texas Motor Speedway behind the wheel of the No. 4 Monster Energy Chevy Silverado. Starting the race from the ninth position, Carmichael lost the handling of the truck at the beginning of the race and fell back to the 16th spot. Working on the truck throughout the race and gaining valuable experience on the track, Carmichael was able to move through the field and finish the race in the 12th spot.

QUICK NOTES

Race length: 150 laps/150 miles

Banking: 11-degrees in turns 1and 2

9-degrees in turns 3 and 4

3-degrees on the frontstretch

9-degrees on the backstretch

Track layout: 1 mile

Shape: Tri-Oval

Pre-Race Schedule:

First Practice: 5:45 p.m. – 7:00 p.m., ET

Final Practice: 7:30 p.m. – 8:45 p.m., ET

Friday:

Qualifying: 4:30 p.m., ET

TV: The Lucas Oil 150 can be seen live on SPEED at 7:30 p.m., ET.

Radio: The Motor Racing Network (MRN) will broadcast the race live at 7:30 p.m., ET.

No. 4 Longhorn Chevrolet Specs:

Chassis: 039

Kevin Harvick Truck Stats at Phoenix

Year No. Team Start Finish

2008 2 KHI 10 1

2007 2 KHI 4 5

2003 6 KHI 2 1

2002 6 KHI 3 1

1999 98 JH 3 23

1998 75 WS 13 18

1998 75 WS 18 13

1997 75 WS 36 34

1996 72 MH 21 35

*KHI: Kevin Harvick Inc.

*JH: Jim Herrick

*WS: Wayne Spears

*MH: Mike Harvick

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About Kevin Harvick Inc.

Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI), established in 2001, is a 70,000 sq. ft. facility located in Kernersville, N.C. KHI houses two full-time Truck Series teams, including the 2007 series champions. The No. 33 team is led by three-time Truck Series champion Ron Hornaday and the No. 4 team is comprised of Ricky Carmichael, the most successful motocross racer in American history, and a variety of NASCAR Sprint Cup stars. KHI is also home to the No. 33 Nationwide Series team competing full-time with drivers Kevin Harvick (a two-time Nationwide Series champion), 2008 Daytona 500 champion Ryan Newman and Ron Hornaday. The 2009 season marks KHI’s sixth year of full-time competition in NASCAR’s elite divisions. Visit www.kevinharvickinc.com for more information.

- Kevin Harvick Inc. Press Release

INAGURAL WINS: Ron Hornaday holds the Truck Series record for most career wins with 45 over Jack Sprague’s 28. Of those 45 wins, 10 of them have come in inaugural events. Hornaday won six races during the Truck Series inaugural year in 1995 recording victories at Tucson (Ariz.) Raceway Park, Mesa Marin, Evergreen (Wash.) Speedway, Heartland Park Topeka (Kan.), Flemington (N.J.) Speedway and Infineon (Calf.) Raceway. In 1996, the series added Watkins Glen and Loudon to the Truck Series schedule; Hornaday took control and added those venues to his win record on his way to his first Truck Series championship. Two years later, in 1998 he would win two more inaugural races at Pikes Peak and Memphis in route to his second series title.

Of the races left in 2009 Hornaday has recorded wins at five out of the nine tracks; two of those nine races will be inaugural events including this weekend at Chicagoland Speedway and next week at Iowa Speedway

QUALIFIER: Hornaday has not qualified outside the top 10 in 26 races, dating all the way back to Nashville (Tenn.) Superspeedway in 2008, when he started from the 12th position.

2007 VS. 2009: Hornaday currently leads Matt Crafton by 211 points in the championship hunt. Compared to his 2007 championship season after 15 races Hornaday appears to be right on target:

Notes from the Professor: Quotes from Ron Hornaday:

WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON RACING AT CHICAGO FOR THE FIRST TIME?

“I’m really excited to go to Chicago. We tested there some last year and I really liked the track. We have run pretty well at the 1.5-mile tracks this season. I know Rick Ren (crew chief) has been pouring over notes from all of the tracks we have run this year and test notes from last year. I’m confident we will have a good set-up when we unload, but it will take a few laps to find out where the grip is and what line my truck wants to run in.”

CAN YOU COMPARE CHICAGO TO ANOTHER TRACK?

“It’s hard to make a comparison because each track has its own unique characteristics, but I guess the closest one is Kansas Speedway. The track is still pretty smooth. It’s going to take us running a race though for me to be able to put it in its own category. I’m interested to see what everyone fights, I think we will be tight, but I’m not sure just yet. ”

CHASSIS HISTORY: The No. 33 Turtle Wax team will take chassis No. 034 to Chicagoland Speedway. Chassis 034 is a brand-new chassis that has not completed a single lap on track. The last two times the No. 33 team has debuted a new chassis, they have gone to victory lane. The team brought chassis No. 029 to Kentucky Speedway, going to victory lane for the fourth time in 2009, the following week the team debuted chassis No. 033 at O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis, making Truck Series history winning four consecutive races.

PREVIOUS RACE RECAP: Last week at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway, Hornaday and the No. 33 team ended their five-race winning streak after finishing third. However, the team was pleased with their 10th top-five finish of 2009. Hornaday made his only pit stop of the night on lap 36. The team brought the No. 33 truck back to pit road the following lap for fuel, however Hornaday did not remain on pit road, instead he made another lap on the track before returning to pit road, miring him deep in the field. Methodically, he worked his way back up through the pack, but ran out of time to catch eventual winner Kyle Busch. Hornaday continues to lead the championship point standings by 211 makers over Matt Crafton.

ABOUT TURTLE WAX:

Turtle Wax® is the number one selling brand of car care products in the world with sales in 90 countries. Founded more than 60 years ago in Chicago, the company is recognized for manufacturing environmentally-friendly appearance and performance car care products for the retail consumer market and the commercial car care and professional detailing industries.

ABOUT KEVIN HARVICK INC.:

Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI), established in 2001, is a 70,000 sq. ft. facility located in Kernersville, N.C. KHI houses two full-time Truck Series teams, including the 2007 series champions. The No. 33 team is led by three-time Truck Series champion Ron Hornaday and the No. 4 KHI All-Stars team is comprised of Ricky Carmichael, the most successful motocross racer in American history, J.R. Fitzpatrick and a variety of NASCAR Sprint Cup stars. KHI is also home to the No. 33 Nationwide Series team competing full-time with drivers Kevin Harvick (a two-time Nationwide Series champion), 2008 Daytona 500 champion Ryan Newman, Ron Hornaday, Cale Gale and Kelly Bires. The 2009 season marks KHI’s sixth year of full-time competition in NASCAR’s elite divisions. Visit www.kevinharvickinc.com for more information.

- Kevin Harvick Inc. Press Release