Pre Race News
- Ricky Rudd made his return to the #88 Yates Racing Ford after missing the previous five weeks due to a separated shoulder suffered in an accident during the Sharp AQUOS 500.
- In this week's Worst Kept NASCAR Secret, Patrick Carpentier was signed to drive the #10 Gillett Evernham Motorsports Dodge for the 2008 season.
- NASCAR upheld Carl Edwards' 25-point penalty assessed against him at the Dover fall race.
- Greg Biffle's #16 Roush Fenway Racing Ford will have a new sponsor in 2008, as 3M becomes the primary sponsor, replacing Ameriquest, citing financial difficulties with the mortgage market.
- Dale Jarrett will officially retire from full-time competition, and hand the wheel of the Michael Waltrip Racing #44 Toyota Camry to David Reutimann. In addition, MWR will have additional financial support from a new partial owner for 2008 in the form of financier Robert Kauffman, which was announced Friday (October 12). Jarrett will race six times in 2008 before likely going full time to ESPN as a race anaylist. Reutimann will move from the #00 car to the #44 starting with the spring race at Texas.
- There were two pink cars in the field to help raise awareness for breast cancer on the track in the race. The Yates Racing #38 Ford of David Gilliland sponsored by M&Ms and the #43 Petty Enterprises Dodge of Bobby Labonte sponsored by General Mills' Cheerios will be in the pink hue for the race.
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