2009 Driver/Sponsor Line up - Roush Fenway Racing

ROUSH FENWAY RACING ADVANCE 

Dover International Speedway; September 25-27 

Las Vegas Motor Speedway; September 25-26 

Dover/Las Vegas Driver/Sponsor Line up… 

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series 

David Ragan – No. 6 UPS Ford 

Greg Biffle – No. 16 3M Ford 

Matt Kenseth – No. 17 DEWALT Ford 

Jamie McMurray – No. 26 Crown Royal Ford 

Carl Edwards – No. 99 Aflac Ford 

NASCAR Nationwide Series 

Erik Darnell – No. 6 Northern Tool + Equipment Ford 

Matt Kenseth – No. 16 CitiFinancial Ford 

Carl Edwards – No. 60 Scotts Wild Bird Food Ford 

NASCAR Camping World Truck Series – Las Vegas 

Colin Braun – No. 6 Con-way Freight F-150 

For more information on Roush Fenway Racing’s drivers, crew 

chiefs, teams and sponsors, please visit: 

www.RoushFenway.com 

For more information contact: 

Sheri Herrmann, Roush Fenway Racing, 704.720.4632, sherrmann@roushfenway.com 

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Roush Fenway Dover/Las Vegas Fast Facts… 

NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES 

2009 Dover Lineup – David Ragan/No. 6 UPS Ford; Greg Biffle/No. 16 3M Ford; Matt 

Kenseth/No. 17 DEWALT Ford; Jamie McMurray/No. 26 Crown Royal Ford; Carl 

Edwards/No. 99 Aflac Ford. 

150 TH START - Roush Fenway Racing will make Sprint Cup start #150 at Dover this 

weekend. The team has 149 starts and eight wins, six poles, 43 top-five and 68 top-10 

finishes at the track. 

Three of Roush Fenway’s five entries finished inside the top 10 at Dover in the Spring, 

including the team’s two “Chase” entries. Greg Biffle finished third, Matt Kenseth fourth 

and Carl Edwards seventh. 

HIGHEST AVERAGE FINISHER - Of the 12 “Chase” drivers, Carl Edwards has the 

highest average finishing position at Dover – 7.6. Only four of the “Chase” drivers have 

average finishing positions in the top 10 at Dover, both Edwards and Biffle (10.6) are 

included in the four (Ryan Newman and Jimmie Johnson are the other two). 

Roush Fenway drivers know how to win at the Monster Mile. The team has accrued 

the most Sprint Cup wins at Michigan (11) followed by Bristol (10) and Dover (8). The 

team’s wins shake out as follows: Mark Martin (fall ’97, ’98, ’99 and spring ’04); Greg 

Biffle (spring ’05 and fall ’08); Matt Kenseth (spring ’06) and Carl Edwards (fall ’07). 

For five years running, a Roush Fenway driver has won a Sprint Cup race at Dover – 

Martin in 2004, Biffle in 2005, Kenseth in 2006, Edwards in 2007 and Biffle again in 

2008. This is the longest running streak of its kind at Dover. 

LEADING THE WAY - The Roush Fenway Ford’s have led more laps at Dover than 

any other track with a total of 3,559. 

In the fall of 2008, Roush Fenway Ford’s finished first, second and third. In a 

phenomenal race for the win, Greg Biffle, Matt Kenseth and Carl Edwards battled it out 

swapping positions several times in the closing laps before the checkered flag waved 

over the No. 16 3M Ford with the No. 17 and No. 99 right on his heels. 

Five of the team’s eight wins came during the fall race. 



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Roush Fenway Dover Fast Facts continued… 

NASCAR NATIONWIDE SERIES 

2009 Dover line up – Erik Darnell/No. 6 Northern Tool + Equipment Ford; Matt 

Kenseth/No. 16 CitiFinancial Ford; Carl Edwards/No. 60 Scotts Wild Bird Food Ford. 

In 43 Nationwide starts at the Monster Mile, Roush Fenway drivers have racked up 

three wins, two poles, 15 top-five and 24 top-10 finishes. 

The team has an average starting position of 11.3 and an average finishing position of 

14.0 in the Nationwide Series at Dover. 

TOP 10 - In the 2008 fall race, Edwards, McMurray and Ragan started fourth, seventh 

and eighth respectively. The trio went on to finish fifth (Edwards), eighth (McMurray) 

and ninth (Ragan). 

Greg Biffle and Carl Edwards hold all three of Roush Fenway’s Nationwide wins and 

two poles at the concrete oval. Edwards has one pole (fall ’08) and one win (spring 

’07). Biffle has one pole (fall ’07) and two wins (spring ’02 and ’04). 

Roush Fenway Ford’s finish inside the top 10/55.8 percent of the time in the Nationwide 

Series. 

NASCAR CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES 

2009 Las Vegas line up – Colin Braun/No. 6 Con-way Freight F-150. 

Roush Fenway truck team’s have 26 starts at Dover with three wins, one poles, seven 

top-five and 11 top-10 finishes. 

Joe Ruttman won Roush Fenway’s first Truck race at Las Vegas in 1997. Greg Biffle 

followed with a win in 1999 and Travis Kvapil won from the pole in 2007 (Roush 

Fenway’s only Truck pole at the Speedway). 

Roush Fenway trucks finish inside the top 10/42.3 percent of the time at the 1.5-mile tri 

oval. 

MOVIN ON UP - Colin Braun has moved into the top five in the overall Truck Series 

point standings. The 21-year old has started inside the top 10 in the last nine races in 

over his last 12 starts; he has one win (Michigan), six top-five and nine top-10 finishes. 



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Roush Fenway Racing Dover Story Ideas… 

1. Win #400 – Carl Edwards’ Nationwide win at Richmond marked win number 397 for 

Roush Fenway Racing as an organization. In 2009 the team marked Nationwide win 

#100 and Truck Series win #50 and they are now looking to hit win #400 overall, 

before the end of the 2009 season. Roush Fenway’s 397 wins are comprised of Sprint 

Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series wins along with ARCA, Trans-Am 

and IMSA-GTS. For more information please contact Sheri Herrmann, (704)720-4632 

or sherrmann@roushfenway.com. 



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Dover Track History (current drivers)… 

Sprint Cup Series 

PTS DRIVER STARTS WINS TOP-5 TOP-10 POLES LAPS COMP LAPS LED 

9 th Greg Biffle 14 2 6 9 1 5,553 463 

11 th Carl Edwards 10 1 5 7 0 3,999 297 

14 th Matt Kenseth 21 1 8 13 1 8,125 693 

23 rd Jamie McMurray 13 0 1 5 0 5,155 131 

30 th David Ragan 6 0 0 0 0 2,036 0 

TOTALS: 64 4 20 34 2 24,868 1,584 

Nationwide Series 


2 nd Carl Edwards 9 1 5 7 1 1,796 207 

n/a Matt Kenseth 17 2 9 10 1 2,870 662 

n/a Erik Darnell 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 

TOTALS: 26 3 14 17 2 4,666 869 

Camping World Truck Series 


5 th Colin Braun 1 0 0 1 0 147 1 

TOTALS: 1 0 0 1 0 147 1 

COMBINED TOTALS 

ENTRIES SERIES STARTS WINS TOP-5 TOP-10 POLES LAPS COMP LAPS LED 

5 Sprint Cup 64 4 20 34 2 24,868 1,584 

3 Nationwide 26 3 14 17 2 4,666 869 

1 Camping World 1 0 0 0 0 147 1 

TOTALS: 91 7 34 51 4 29,681 2,454 



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In Their Words… 

Here are a few thoughts from Roush Fenway “Chase” contenders Greg Biffle and 

Carl Edwards as the duo prepares for what is likely to be one of the closest 

“Chase’s” in history. 

No. 16 3M driver GREG BIFFLE on the “Chase”: 

Q: How nice is it to have a clean slate in the points? 

A: “It feels really good to start over. There’s so much pressure to get in this thing and now 

that we’re in it, just go for it and get the best finishes we can and try to get the points lead.” 

Q: Is there pressure knowing you have to almost be perfect in the “Chase”? 

A: “Yeah, you have to be perfect. No excuses and no mistakes, and we’re prepared to do 

that.” 

Q: How prepared is your team for the “Chase”? 

A: “It’s obvious we have only two wins as a company, and that’s unusual for us, but I feel 

like we’re gaining on it and this weekend is a great opportunity for one of our cars to get in 

Victory Lane.” 

Q: Does anybody have an edge going into the “Chase”? 

A: “I really think, if you look across the board, I really think that everybody really, truly has 

the same opportunity right now. I really do. I don’t feel like anybody’s really got an 

advantage because in my perception the 14 (Tony Stewart) hasn’t run as well as they had 

when they were kind of on that firestorm of going like crazy; the 48 (Jimmie Johnson) is 

competitive, but as somebody mentioned, maybe not performing up to their own 

standards, I guess. I would say they’re still doing a pretty damn good job myself, but then 

you see Brian Vickers and he’s running extremely well. He ran extremely well at Atlanta 

and ran well at Richmond, and I think the same with us. We’ve been able to pull out two 

good finishes after not running so well. I don’t think we’re far off from being competitive 

and challenging for the win. I think if you look at the 12 guys, I don’t know that you could 

pick a favorite. I don’t know that you could count any one of them out.” 



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In Their Words continued… 

No. 99 Aflac driver CARL EDWARDS on the “Chase”: 

Q: Who is the favorite this year? 

A: “I think Jimmie (Johnson) is the favorite. He has to be. He’s shown that he can do it, 

but the last couple of days we’ve spent a little time up in New York with all the guys and 

when you really look at the group this year, I think that this is wide open. Anyone can win 

this thing. I think Juan (Pablo) Montoya has just as good a chance as Jimmie Johnson 

with the way he’s been running. Brian (Vickers) has scored more points than anyone the 

last 10 races and there’s nothing saying he couldn’t do that again. And then you look at 

Greg (Biffle) and myself. Last year, we put together a really strong chase and nobody 

expected Greg to come out and win the first two and be that fast. Yeah, he’s the favorite 

(Johnson), but I think this is going to be a real interesting one. It has that feeling to me.” 

Q: Is this redemption time for you (since you have not won this year), or a feeling 

like ‘if we haven’t done it by now, we’re not going to do it’? 

A: “No, it’s definitely not the latter. It does not matter what you did last week. It doesn’t 

matter what you did the last 26 weeks. This is a second chance here (the ‘Chase’). This 

is a new beginning. For the same reason you can’t look at last season and say who is 

going to be in the chase this year, you can’t look at the first part of the season and say 

who is going to be strong in the last 10. Really, this isn’t lip service. It really has the feel 

that any one of these 12 guys can win this thing. That’s good for me. I want to be that 

guy. It seems like the peaks and valleys are a shorter frequency and higher amplitude 

right now.” 

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