Bank of America 500 - Ricky Rudd Notes RICKY RUDD, SNICKERS® RACING LOWE’S MOTOR SPEEDWAY OCTOBER 13, 2007

RICKY RUDD RETURNS TO THE DRIVER’S SEAT AT LOWE’S MOTOR SPEEDWAY

CHARLOTTE, NC (October 9, 2007) – The NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series travels to Lowe’s Motor Speedway this weekend for the Bank of America 500. Lowe’s Motor Speedway is considered the home track for the majority of the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series teams. Along with a weekend of racing at home for the Snickers Racing team, this weekend’s Bank of America 500 marks the return of Ricky Rudd as the driver of the #88 Snickers Ford Fusion. Rudd has been out of the driver’s seat for five weeks as he spent time recovering from a separated shoulder. Rudd and the #88 Snickers Racing team are eager to return to Lowe’s Motor Speedway where earlier in the season- the team walked away with their best finish of the year in seventh place.

Quoting Snickers Driver, Ricky Rudd:
How are you feeling knowing that you have been cleared to return to drive the #88 this weekend? “I’m really excited to get back into the car this weekend. We had our best race of the year at Charlotte and came away with a seventh place finish. We just had a really strong car and ran in the top-10 all day long. I’m hoping to have similar results this weekend and I’m just eager to get back in the car and bring home another solid finish for our Snickers racing team at Charlotte. I really am ready to be back on the race track this weekend.”

How is your shoulder feeling, and do you have any concerns in regards to it for this weekend’s race? “My shoulder still is not at 100 percent yet but we’re going to have to see how it handles being in the car for practice. It may turn out to be hard on me to run the 500 miles at Charlotte this weekend, but I’m not going into this weekend with the intention of merely starting the race, I’m there to complete the entire race and that’s my goal. I won’t know if I’m going to be able to run the whole race until we get there, but I would not have gotten back in the car if I didn’t feel I had a very realistic chance of running all 500 miles Saturday night.”

# NOTES OF INTEREST: Rudd has 60 starts at Charlotte, which is the most starts of any active NEXTEL Cup Series driver, and is second-most on the list of all-time NEXTEL Cup Series drivers
# Rudd has an average starting position of 18.3, and an average finish of 16.6 at Charlotte
# Rudd has completed 19,957 of 21,831 laps at Charlotte (91.4 percent) and has led 310 laps
# Rudd earned his best Charlotte starting position from the pole during the 1995 UAW-GM Quality 500
# Rudd’s best finish at Charlotte is third which he has accomplished twice (1981 and 2000)
# Rudd has an average driver rating at Charlotte of 83.4 which ranks him eleventh on the list of active NEXTEL Cup Series drivers at Lowe’s Motor Speedway heading into this weekend’s race

CHASSIS #79
Chassis #79 is the chassis the #88 Snickers Racing team will be running this weekend for the Bank of America 500 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. This is the same standard chassis the team raced earlier in the season at Michigan for the 3M Performance 400, at Chicago for the USG Sheetrock 400, and at Charlotte for the Coca-Cola 600 where the team had their best finish of the 2007 NASCAR season (seventh place).