Denny Hamlin
No. 11 America’s RIDEMAKERZ

Watkins Glen, NY
Zippo 200
Watkins Glen International
Saturday August 8, 2009

DENNY HAMLIN/ CJM RACING TEAM FAST FACTS:

• RIDEMARKERZ is the first ever car customizing experience for kids 6-106. Pick one of 70 different car body types and paint schemes. These are scale plastic-mold replicas of real-world cars that RIDEMAKERZ licenses from GM, Ford, BMW, and other car companies. Then trick out the ride by picking the wheels, hubcaps, a chassis, sounds, and other options such as radio control. Build YOUR Ride at RIDEMAKERZ.com
• CJM Racing transitioned over to Toyota Camry’s in 2009 and shares a technical alliance with Joe Gibbs Racing. The partnership formed late last year allows the teams to share technical information as well as research and development
• The 2009 season marks the second season CJM Racing will compete in the NASCAR Nationwide Series full-time. The team is currently 17th in the owner point standings
• CJM Racing garnered their fourth top-10 finish of the season at the inaugural Iowa race last weekend. The team finished ninth
• Upstate NY is home to four crew members: Paul Wolfe (crew chief) is from Milford, Scott McDougall (engineer) is from Syracuse, Vaughn Dunn (tire specialist) is from Watertown and Shayna Keller (media relations) is from Mohawk
• Watkins Glen marks the first road-course race for the Nationwide Series (NNS) this season
• Denny Hamlin will be behind the wheel of the No. 11 RIDEMAKERZ Toyota with CJM Racing for the first time at Watkins Glen
• Hamlin has four NNS starts at Watkins Glen with an average starting position of 9.5 and an average finishing position of 23.2
• In addition, Hamlin has three Sprint Cup Series starts at Watkins Glen. In all three starts he has finished in the top-10; with his highest finish coming in 2007 (second place)
• This weekend will mark only his second start in the NNS this season
• The RIDEMAKERZ race team will be running chassis #10 at Watkins Glen; #10 is a brand new chassis
• The Zippo 200 will be broadcast live on ESPN2 this Saturday, August 8th at 2:30 PM (EST)

HAMLIN’S THOUGHTS ON RETURNING TO THE NATIONWIDE SERIES:


“I am looking forward to it.  Las Vegas was the last time that I have been in a
Nationwide car so getting back in that car will take a little getting used to for
sure.  I’ve really been able to focus on the Cup Series side of things lately and that’s been a positive for me and the team but this opportunity came up with CJM and given their affiliation with JGR I will do whatever I can to help them out and get a good result.  I have had some good runs at Michigan in the Nationwide Series but Watkins Glen has been a little different story.  We’ve run pretty well but different issues have kept us from good results there.  I like road courses in general and have fared pretty well so I think this will be a good weekend.”






DENNY HAMLIN @ WATKINS GLEN INTERNATIONAL:

SERIES       STARTS          WINS          TOP-5’s      TOP-10’s       BEST START              BEST FINISH
NNS                    4                0                0                 0                   4 (2008)                     12 (2006)

FOUR MOST RECENT WGI NNS STARTS:

DATE            START          FINISH          STATUS                   EARNINGS
08/09/08         4                   34                  Ignition                    $15,320
08/11/07         10                 14                  Running                  $21,550
08/12/06         10                 12                  Running                  $16,125
08/13/05         14                 33                  Transmission         $23,450

2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series Stats:

STARTS: 21 WINS: 0 TOP-5's: 0 TOP-10's: 4 AVERAGE STARTS: 21.9 AVERAGE FINISH : 20.2 TOTAL LAPS COMPLETED: 3720 TOTAL POSSIBLE LAPS : 4127 DRIVER'S POINTS:   OWNER'S POINTS: 17 WINNINGS: $579,516






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