No. 33 Cheerios/Hamburger Helper Chevrolet

Race Notes and Quotes

This Week’s Cheerios/Hamburger Helper Chevrolet at Homestead-Miami Speedway …Clint Bowyer will pilot chassis No. 350 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stable this weekend. This Chevrolet Impala, built new in 2011, has seen action four times this season, posting top-15 efforts at Texas Motor Speedway (started-third, finished-second), at the Coca-Cola 600 in May (started-10th, finished-15th) at Michigan International Speedway in June (started-27th, finished-eighth) and Dover International Speedway in October (started-27th, finished-eighth).Career Homestead-Miami Stats … This weekend’s 400 miler marks Bowyer’s 217th NSCS start.

• In five NSCS starts at the 1.5-mile track, Bowyer owns one top-five and two top-10 finishes.
• He has completed 98.1 percent of the total laps contested at HMS during his career.
• Bowyer owns an average starting position of 16.6 and average finishing position of 15.4 at HMS.
• His best effort at the Florida facility was a fifth place finish in the 2008 event.

Red and Yellow … The familiar Cheerios/Hamburger Helper paint scheme returns to the No. 33 Chevrolet this weekend for the 2011 season finale.

Coca-Cola Arctic Home … This weekend, look for Bowyer to be chugging Coke out of a special white-cap Coca-Cola bottle in support of the Coca-Cola Arctic Home initiative.Polar Bears have been a big part of the Coca-Cola brand for decades and now Coke and the World Wildlife Fund are partnering in a campaign to help protect the polar bears’ arctic home. This holiday season, Coke is turning its iconic red cans white to help raise awareness and funds for polar bear conservation efforts. Fans can get in on the action by using Coke package codes to text a personal $1 donation to the WWF or by donating online at ArcticHome.com. For every fan that donates, Coke will match it up to $1 million. Fans can visit ArcticHome.com for more information and to learn more about the polar bear and its habitat.

Double Duty … Bowyer will drive the No. 33 Rheem Heating, Cooling & Water Heating Chevrolet Impalafor Kevin Harvick Inc. in the NASCAR Nationwide Series race on Saturday, November 19. In nine starts with the team this season, Bowyer has collected one pole (Daytona International Speedway in February), four top-five and six top-10 finishes with 144 laps led.

2011 Season Recap … Over the season’s first 35 events, Bowyer has earned one win (Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway in October), four top-five and 15 top-10 finishes. In addition to an average starting position of 16.4, he boasts a 15.7 average finishing position and has led 345 laps of competition. Bowyer has five career Sprint Cup Series wins to go along with his two poles, 31 top-five and 94 top-10 finishes in 216 career starts.

Last Time in the Homestead … Bowyer and the No. 33 Cheerios/Hamburger Helper Chevrolet team topped off a successful 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season by pulling out a 12th-place finish in the 2010 edition of the Homestead 400.

Last Week in the Desert … Bowyer and the No. 33 Cheerios/Hamburger Helper Chevrolet team, sporting a special USO “Send Cheer” paint scheme to honor military families whose loved ones are serving our country, scored their 15th top-10 finish of the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season by bringing home a hard-fought 10th-place effort in the Kobalt Tools 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.

Points Racing … Bowyer remains 13th in the NSCS driver championship point standings with one race remaining in the 2011 season.

CLINT BOWYER QUOTES:

How hard is it going to be to climb out of the car for the last time for Richard Childress Racing?

“Yeah, it’s going to be really tough. It’s going to be awkward to be honest. It’s the only thing I’ve ever drove and always been one of Richard’s cars or one associated with him. It’s bittersweet. I owe everything in my career to Richard and it’s going to be tough, but change isn’t always a bad thing. I’m ready for the challenge. I really am ready for this.”

What would be your storybook ending for your final race with RCR?

“The real storybook ending would have been running the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup and winning the championship. That probably would have made for some good headlines! Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case, but getting a win here before the end of the season would be pretty high up on my list.”

Has the season crawled or flown by for you?

“It flew by just like every season does. You find yourself in July saying ‘what the hell, where did the season go?’ Then before you know it, the end of the summer is here and you don’t even remember the summer races. That’s what’s so crazy, how fast the summer months go by in this sport. Those are the months that you’re the busiest on and off the race track. Through all these, there have been days where it seemed like they would never end.”

How well have you run at Homestead-Miami Speedway?

“Homestead-Miami Speedway is a fun race track. Our finishes don’t reflect how well we’ve run there. I think we’ve actually broke twice there. It’s a fun race track and a very important race because we get to crown another champion.”

- Richard Childress Racing, Press Release