Pre-race News
- As announced last week, 18-year old sensation Joey Logano will be moving into the #20 Home Depot Toyota at Joe Gibbs Racing after Tony Stewart leaves. He was to have attempted to qualify for this week's race driving the #02 Home Depot ride, but in the reverse of the #20 paint scheme. Hanna had other ideas as qualifying was cancelled, and because he was outside the Top 35, he did make the race. Logano will later try to run five races for Hall of Fame Racing in the #96 DLP car later this season, and two more in the #02.
- NASCAR will begin a new drug testing policy within the next few weeks, and will now use random drug testing on all drivers, crews and other personnel as part of the new program. This puts the stock car sanctioning body with all the other major North American sports on random testing.
- David Stremme, who not lost his ride to the aforementioned Dario Franchitti, will be the new driver of the #12 Penske Racing Dodge in 2009. Stremme had been driving in the Nationwide Series and was a test driver for PR this year.
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