Pre-Race News
- It was announced by Joe Gibbs Racing that 18-year-old Joey Logano, who won the Nationwide Series Meijer 300 at Kentucky Motor Speedway one week earlier will attempt to drive in several late-season Sprint Cup races. At 700118000000000000018 years, 700121000000000000021 days of age, Logano became the youngest NASCAR-sanctioned major series race winner surpassing Casey Atwood's age of 700118000000000000018 years, 7002313000000000000313 days.
- The biannual rite of road course ringers replacing regular drivers happened as per custom this week at Infineon Raceway. Among this week's changes among those already locked into the Top 35, Scott Pruett replaceed Reed Sorenson in the #41 Chip Ganassi Racing Dodge starting 28th and Dale Earnhardt, Inc. employed Canadian Ron Fellows in the #01 Chevrolet for Regan Smith, starting 22nd. Four drivers - Italian Max Papis, who drove the #66 Haas CNC Racing Chevrolet in the 28th slot for Scott Riggs, who transferred to the #70 ride this week, and failed to make the race; Brian Simo drove Front Row Motorsports' #34 car, which switched from Chevrolet to Ford for No Fear Racing, and started 43rd ("Shotgun on the field"); Aussie Marcos Ambrose in the #21 Wood Brothers Ford, who started seventh and Boris Said in the No Fear Racing #60 Ford who will started 14th - made the race in the knockout phase of the qualifying.
- Bill Davis Racing will have to look for a new sponsor for the #22 Toyota as Caterpillar will move to Richard Childress Racing's #31 ride of Jeff Burton as the replacement for AT&T, which will leave as per the agreement in 2007 when Sprint Nextel objected about then-Cingular Wireless was bought by AT&T. Meantime, Penske Racing will more than likely look for a new sponsor on the #12 Dodge of 2008 Daytona 500 champion Ryan Newman after Alltel will be bought by Verizon Wireless in a merger.
- Kyle Busch will solely concentrate on trying to win the 2008 Sprint Cup championship, abandoning racing separate events in the Nationwide Series and the Craftsman Truck Series unless they are in conjunction with Sprint Cup events.
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