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TOYOTA NASCAR Nationwide Series Texas Post Race Notes & Quotes

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Texas Motor Speedway – November 7, 2009

Kyle Busch won Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) race at Texas Motor Speedway.
It was Busch’s fourth consecutive NNS victory at Texas.

Busch led the field six times for 179 laps (of 200) at the one-and-a-half-mile oval en route to victory lane.
In the last four NNS races at Texas, Busch has led 657 of 800 laps.

Jason Leffler (third), Brian Vickers (seventh) and Mike Bliss (10th) also earned top-10 finishes for Toyota.

Camry drivers Trevor Bayne (13th), Michael Annett (22nd), Joey Logano (24th), Kasey Kahne (24th) and Chase Miller
(39th) were also in the field.

This season, Camry drivers have recorded 14 victories, 64 top-fives, 119 top-10 finishes, and have led 3,628 laps.

Busch extended his lead in the unofficial NNS point standings to 272 points over second-place Carl Edwards with two races
remaining this season.

No. 18 Z-Line Design Toyota Camry

Finishing Position: 1st

How does this win feel?

“I wanted to win this, not just get it, you know. They gave it to me, but I wanted to win it. We outwrestled all these guys with
this ‘Smackdown vs. Raw’ Camry. I want to thank Z-Line Designs, NOS Energy Drink, Gillette, Direct TV, the fans of course
and all the guys on this team. This track is fun. It’s fun when you have good cars, of course. These guys do a phenomenal job
for me. Dave (Rogers, crew chief) on the Cup side for tomorrow, they do a great job too working their butts off this weekend. I
feel like we have a decent car right now. Maybe not a winning car now, but a decent car where we can contend and if things fall
our way we can do it.”

What do you think of the nice first-place prizes you take home from here?

“It is — very nice mementos. Pretty awesome. We love coming out to Texas. This is for some reason one of my best race
tracks. I seem to really like getting around here. This car was flawless again today. We’ve had cars that have been flawless like
this for the past four races here. This is a testament to this team. They do such an awesome job preparing these cars with all the
extra hours at the shop and all the guys that do a great job. There’s one guy that’s not here in victory lane right now that we
really what to thank, which is Leo (Thorsen) — he’s the car chief on this car. He never comes to victory lane, we don’t know
why, but we’re going to get him in victory lane for our championship celebration next week at Phoenix and at Homestead.”

Kyle Busch

“Trying to pass the guys to get back up towards the front. It was a little treacherous today on the inside of Kevin Harvick early
in the race. The car stuck well enough for me where I didn’t spin out and wreck. I remember Vegas came straight to my mind
when we were battling for the lead and I wrecked. That was a bad week for us. We’ve been running well all year long and
we’ve been able to capitalize on good runs. This is one of the ones that we capitalized on. This is eighth on the year.
Unfortunately, we missed out on 11 others — those were second-place finishes. When you get to victory lane, it’s cool that you
can get your team to victory lane and really celebrate with them because those are the guys that deserve to be here.”

What is it like to be so close to clinching the title?

“It’s pretty cool. I wish I could have gotten it done as soon as possible but as soon as possible is going to come next week. It’s
going to be great, though because luckily NOS will be on the car next week and hopefully we’ll get some championship with
them after clinching and then Z-Line will get the big photo shoot at Homestead after the race is over and everything down there.
It’s an awesome opportunity and a great way to go out this year with two weekends and clinch the championship next week. It
feels awesome. It’s all in these guys and what they do and the hours they spend. Jason (Ratclif, crew chief) reading the books
and the computer and going through all the notes. There’s a lot of guys on this team that really deserve it. They work hard. The
20 team earned the owner’s championship last year and now that the 18 car has got a championship, everybody in the whole
Gibbs shop is championship worthy. It’s pretty cool.”

What has it been like to win 19 times across the top-three series in NASCAR?

“I wish we could have gotten a couple more Cup wins. I felt like there was some opportunity for those. It didn’t work out.
We’ve had a great year. All the Joe Gibbs Racing team drivers won in their hometown, which was pretty cool. Denny (Hamlin)
won at Richmond (Va.), Joey (Logano) won up at Loudon (N.H.) and I won at Vegas. That’s pretty cool, all in the Cup Series
with Joey of course, his first win came there. It’s been a great year for Joe Gibbs Racing overall. It’s been a great year for
myself in all three series.

I’ve run the best I’ve ever run in the Truck Series and have had good trucks every week. Jason
(Ratcliff, crew chief) and these guys have done a good job with our Nationwide cars every week to come unload like that. Our
Cup program has struggled a little bit, but unfortunately sometimes that happens. You look at Matt Kenseth. He won the first
two races of the year and he’s right there with us sitting 13th or 14th. It’s disssappointing but on the other side of things, I think
it was actually a little bit of a good thing that I was able to put more focus towards the Nationwide deal and get the
championship wrapped up over here and not have to worry about both of them. Now the Nationwide deal is done with and we
can go back to focusing more on the Cup effort there and try to get ourselves to championship caliber on that side. Somebody
hast to beat that 48 (Jimmie Johnson).”

Can you win tomorrow?

“We qualified better than we expected — fifth. That’s cool. The car wasn’t bad in practice today. There were some areas where
we felt really good about it. There were some other times where we didn’t feel so good about it. I like what’s going on there. I
think we’ve got about a fifth to 10th-place car right now. If we can just hang there throughout the day and make some changes
to it, have Dave (Rogers, crew chief) learn some things that we can be contenders. If you’re contenders at the end of the race,
you never know. It can be a fuel mileage race, you can be on the right strategy. If you keep yourself in contention, you can
come out with a win. If the luck is on our side, and we play it smart then we could come out of here three for three and that
would be pretty special. The closest I’ve gotten is a first, first and third at California earlier this year. Maybe we can try to
come two spots better tomorrow.”

How much does your success in Nationwide Series help you get over missing the Chase?

“It makes it better when you’ve got the Cup guys that come over to race with you on the Nationwide Tour. If it was just me
racing against the rest of the guys, then it would look kind of silly. I still have — Casey Mears today ran a great race and finished
second. But, we still have guys like Jeff Burton, Clint Bowyer — I can’t even name them all — Greg Biffle, Matt Kenseth, you
know them. Since all those guys come over and race with us that’s what makes it fun because you go out there and you can beat
those guys and you know they’re at Roush, RCR — who dominated this thing a few years ago — they are in good cars.

You know that you’re not an idiot and you know you can’t drive — at least it makes it a little easier when you look at things. Still you
want to be the best of the best on the Cup tour and ultimately that’s what Jimmie’s (Johnson) been able to hit on and I always
bring up his name probably in about every interview, but you have to idolize the guy. Who can win four straight titles in this
type of era? Not even Jeff Gordon could do it. It’s a big deal. Those guys have really got it together and one of these days,
whoever beats them, can’t imagine if they go five straight.”

Do any of your statistics from the year impress you?

“The cool thing about it is I don’t look for the records. I do pay attention when it comes up and when you guys bring it up and
stuff. I kind of search around and look for some other things, to sort of impress myself upon. You know, I don’t know if this
year is the highest point total accumulated or not, but I feel like we’re pretty darn close. I think that’s pretty cool that we’ve
been able to get that many points in a season and there have been so many areas where we can improve on. You know what
would be impressive is if those 11 second-place finishes were wins — that would be 19 wins. That’s what’s stupid. That’s
what’s silly. If that could have been. The only thing worse than finishing second on a day is when you finish second and
something to a pregnant woman and then you’re third. That’s what sucks.”

JASON RATCLIF, crew chief, No. 18 Z-Line Design Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing

What are your thoughts on today’s victory?

“This was a new car for us. The car we raced the last two races here we weren’t able to bring it back, unfortunately. Fontana.
We built a new car and the guys in the fab shop did a great job trying to repeat the aero numbers of what we typically race here.
I actually like it a little better. The car seemed to respond pretty good. We just went off our notes from what we had here in the
past and it worked. In practice we were pretty good off the truck and we found a couple things there late in the practice that just
took us to the next level. Like Kyle (Busch) said, all day the car was pretty good. We made some changes there that I think
made it a little bit better. Of course, the competition was getting better all race long and we were able to maintain about a ten,
two-tenths all race long. Another good day for us again in Texas. It’s a fun place to win. Hopefully we can come back in the
spring and do it again.”

No. 38 Great Clips Toyota Camry

Finishing Position: 3rd

How was your race?

“The first two runs we were really tight. Scott Zipadelli (crew chief), I can’t thank him enough and my boys enough on the
Great Clips Camry. Everybody at Braun did a great job for me today to run third at Texas. It’s pretty awesome for us. I just got
loose with two (laps) to go. I was just driving and I don’t know why I was driving so hard. I was pulling away from the 29
(Casey Mears), but I wasn’t catching the 18 (Kyle Busch). I was trying to run consistent laps and I think I ran on the apron a
little bit and it about took me out of the race. The guys did a great job on pit road. They got me up there. It was a great
weekend for us, we qualified well and once we got the car adjusted up it moved well.”

What happened when you got down near the apron?

“We ran really well. At the end I got loose and in that one spot I think I ran over the apron a little bit. The guys did a great job.
My car was fast all weekend and once Scott (Zipadelli, crew chief) got it adjusted up for me at the second stop we were hauling
butt. I came in on that last pit stop and we gained a bunch of spots. These guys have done a great job on pit road for us all year
long. I have to thank everybody from Great Clips for coming out and supporting us. It was a great day for us and to run third
here was pretty awesome. It was a lot of fun.”

Jason Leffler

“We run our own race, we run for our own championship. Realistically three or four races in you could tell that the Gibbs team
was going to be pretty dominant and from that point on we just focus on our own program. They’re hard to beat and it showed
again today. If we ran second to them every week then we could worry about beating them.

Right now we’re worrying about running top-five. My team has done a great job at doing that. Over the off season we’ll prepare better and we’ll keep working on trying to beat those guys. That’s our goal, obviously is to win races and to do that you’re going to have to beat them. You could tell this year they’re pretty dominant.”

BRIAN VICKERS, No. 32 Dollar General Toyota Camry, Braun Racing

Finishing Position: 7th

MIKE BLISS, No. 11 Ridemakerz Toyota Camry, CJM Racing

Finishing Position: 10th

TREVOR BAYNE, No. 99 Aaron’s Dream Machine Toyota Camry, Michael Waltrip Racing

Finishing Position: 13th

How was your race?

“We ended up pretty decent considering what was going on in the middle of the race. We fell back to like 20th at one point.
The car just couldn’t get any rear grip all week. We fought it in practice, fought it in qualifying and then in the race. We made
some big changes, so it’s something weird. It’s not like a mechanical deal. We were running a new style body here. The
numbers were really good on it but sometimes the wind tunnel is different than the race track, so we’re going to go back and
figure out if it’s the body or what it was. I think it’s something weird about it because no changes made a difference on the rear
end grip. We’ll get it figured out. It’s not a bad finish considering how we had to work all day to get to 13th.”

MICHAEL ANNETT, No. 15 Germain Racing Toyota Camry, Germain Racing

Finishing Position: 22nd

JOEY LOGANO, No. 20 GameStop Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing

Finishing Position: 24th

KASEY KAHNE, No. 10 Great Clips Toyota Camry, Braun Racing

Finishing Position: 30th

CHASE MILLER, No. 47 Toyota Camry, JTG Daugherty Racing

Finishing Position: 39th

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