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*George to run limited truck schedule for RCR:
Richard Childress Racing driver Tim George Jr. will run 12 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races in 2012 for the
14-time championship-winning organization, driving the #2 Chevrolet Silverado with sponsorship from the Potomac Family
Dining Group. George, a New York, N.Y. native, is fresh off his best ARCA Racing Series run, finishing the 2011 season
seventh in the final championship point standings on the strength of his first-career win at Pocono Raceway in June, eight
top-five and 10 top-10 finishes. The 30-year-old driver made his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut in November
2009, one year after claiming victory at New Jersey Motorsports Park in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series. He began
his racing career in 2005, driving in the Skip Barber Racing School Southern Series and finished second in his class the
following year on the heels of five victories. Potomac Family Dining Group is the exclusive franchisee for the Applebee's
Neighborhood Grill & Bar restaurants in the Washington, D.C. and surrounding area. Bruce Cook, who has nearly
twenty-five years of motorsports experience, will serve as crew chief for RCR's #2 Chevrolet Silverado team. His most
recent stint came at Kevin Harvick Inc. where he captured three wins during the 2010 Nationwide Series season with Kevin
Harvick and seven in the Camping World Truck Series with six different drivers en route to the 2011 owner's
championship title. George's race schedule and further additions to RCR's competition department will be
forthcoming.(Richard Childress Racing PR)(12-7-2011)

*Gresham to JDM for 2012; ROTY candidate:
Joe Denette Motorsports is pleased to announce that Max Gresham, the 2011 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East (NKNPSE)
champion, will join the team's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series line-up for 2012. Gresham will pilot the #24
Chevrolet Silverado and contend for Sunoco Rookie of the Year honors. Gresham, an 18-year-old Griffin, GA native,
captured the 2011 NKNPSE title on the strength of two wins, four poles, nine top-five and 11 top-10 finishes. He was the
only driver to complete all 1,705 laps contested in NKNPSE competition last season. The 2012 season will mark the rookie
driver's first full-time stint in the NCWTS; Gresham had three starts in the series at Las Vegas Motor Speedway,
Martinsville Speedway and Homestead-Miami Speedway in 2011. A sponsorship announcement for Max Gresham and the
#24 JDM entry will be forthcoming.(Joe Denette Motorsports PR)(12-7-2011)

*Smith suspended by NASCAR:
Jack C. Smith, a driver in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, has been indefinitely suspended from NASCAR for
violating the sanctioning body's substance abuse policy. He was found to have violated Sections 12-1 (actions detrimental to
stock car racing) and 19 (violation of the NASCAR substance abuse policy) of the 2011 NASCAR rule
book.(NASCAR)(11-22-2011)

*RCR's Austin Dillon wins 2011 Championship:
Richard Childress Racing's Austin Dillon and his Danny Stockman-led Bass Pro Shops team ended their second year of
full-time competition in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series with a 10th-place finish in the season finale race at
Homestead-Miami Speedway, allowing Dillon to clinch the 2011 Driver's Championship for Bass Pro Shops and Richard
Childress Racing's black #3 Chevrolet team.
*The accomplishment marks the second NCWTS championship for RCR, who earned the inaugural NCWTS series
championship in 1995 with Mike Skinner, also in a #3 Chevrolet. The 42-year-old racing organization, headed by Dillon's
grandfather Richard Childress, now has 14 motorsports championships overall, spread across the NASCAR Sprint Cup
Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series, NCWTS and the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards.
*Dillon, the 2010 NCWTS Rookie of the Year, becomes the first driver in the 11-year history of the NCWTS to earn the
rookie title and then the driving championship the subsequent year. He also holds the honor of youngest champion to be
crowned in the series' history. Along with Ty Dillon, the 2011 ARCA Racing Series champion, the Dillon's are the only
brothers who have earned same-year championships on a national stock car tour.
*The nation's #1 outdoor retail leader, Bass Pro Shops, was positioned as the primary partner on Dillon's #3 Chevrolet for
the duration of the 2010 and 2011 race seasons. A long-time RCR supporter, Bass Pro Shops began its association with
Richard Childress Racing in 1998 with associate sponsorship of the #3 GM Goodwrench Chevrolet Monte Carlo made
famous by seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt. Bass Pro Shops' partnership with RCR has
also included sponsorship of the #29 Chevrolet driven by Kevin Harvick and primary sponsorship of Earnhardt's eldest son,
Kerry Earnhardt, in RCR's #33 Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet for six Sprint Cup Series races in 2004. The company sponsored Ty
Dillon for his season-finale race in the ARCA Racing Series this year.
*Dillon joins an exclusive list of NCWTS driving champions, including Todd Bodine, Ron Hornaday, Jr., Johnny Benson, Ted
Musgrave, Bobby Hamilton, Travis Kvapil, Mike Bliss, Jack Sprague, Greg Biffle and Mike Skinner. He will be formally
honored at the annual NNS and NCWTS Awards Banquet at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel on Monday, Nov. 21. SPEED will
broadcast the banquet on Friday, Dec. 2 from 7-9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.(Richard Childress Racing PR)(11-19-2011

*RCR's Coulter clinches 2011 ROTY honors:
Richard Childress Racing's Joey Coulter was officially named the 2011 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Sunoco
Rookie of the Year on Friday at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The 21-year-old Miami Springs, Fla., native clinched Sunoco
rookie honors with his fifth-place finish at Homestead-Miami Speedway following a season-long spirited battle with four
other drivers. Coulter entered the season-finale race at Homestead with a five-point lead in the rookie standings over
former Formula One driver Nelson Piquet Jr., 20-year-old Red Bull Racing development driver Cole Whitt, 2010 ARCA
Racing Series Rookie of the Year Parker Kligerman and Red Horse Racing's Miguel Paludo. The Sunoco Rookie of the Year
award is calculated using a driver's best 14 finishes and a vote by a NCWTS rookie of the year panel that considers a
driver's competitive abilities and interaction with other drivers and the media.
*It is the second consecutive year that RCR has earned the year-end rookie award. Austin Dillon earned the 2010 Rookie of
the Year Award for RCR and went on to earn the series' driver's championship this season. The Dillon/Coulter duo mark
only the second time in the NCWTS that the same organization has earned both the Rookie of the Year award and the
Championship in the same season. Roush-Fenway Racing accomplished the feat with champion Greg Biffle and rookie of
the year Kurt Busch in 2000.
*Coulter joined RCR following a two-year run in the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards driving for his family's
team. The 21-yar-old mechanical engineering student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte finished seventh in
the NCWTS championship point standings this year, earning five top-five and 13 top-10 finishes.
*Coulter joins a list of former NCWTS Rookie of the Year winners in addition to his teammate, Austin Dillon, which
includes Kurt Busch, Biffle, Carl Edwards, Johnny Sauter, Brendan Gaughan and David Reutimann, among others.
*The Sunoco Rookie of the Year award is presented at the annual NNS and NCWTS Awards Banquet at the Loews Miami
Beach Hotel on Monday, Nov. 21. SPEED will broadcast the banquet on Friday, Dec. 2 from 7-9 p.m. Eastern Standard
Time.(Richard Childress Racing PR)(11-19-2011)

*Chevrolet wins 2011 NCWTS Manufacturers' Championship:
With Kevin Harvick's win in the WinStar World Casino 350K at Texas Motor Speedway tonight, Chevrolet clinched the 2011
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (NCWTS) Manufacturers' Championship. This is Chevrolet's seventh NCWTS
Manufacturers' title since the Series' inception in 1995 and occurs one day after Chevrolet celebrated its 100th anniversary.
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series closes out its 2011 season at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 18.
Austin Dillon sits atop the standings, followed by fellow Silverado drivers Johnny Sauter (20 points behind the leader) and
James Buescher (28 points behind Dillon). Chevrolet drivers have won 10 NCWTS championships, with Ron Hornaday
being the only four-time champion of the Series. Chevrolet's first drivers' championship was won by Mike Skinner in
1995.(Team Chevy Racing PR)(11-4-2011)

*Carmichael uninjured in crash on Phoenix area road:
Camping World Truck Series and Nationwide Series driver, Ricky Carmichael, was collected in an accident on a
Phoenix-area road Friday night. He and his wife were uninjured. Carmichael said he was driving on a two-lane road when a
vehicle crossed the center line and hit the car in front of Carmichael's car. "Wheels fell off and hit our car, the thing was
flying in the air like a torpedo,'' Carmichael said after qualifying for Saturday's Nationwide race at Phoenix International
Raceway. "Something I don't want to really experience again. Luckily, everyone was OK. How they were, I have no clue. I
was driving and had my wife and a friend of mine in the back. It's not fun when you see a truck coming into your lane the
other way.''(Virginian Pilot - see images of the cars there)(11-12-2011)

*Kyle Busch offered Hornaday a truck ride:
#29-Kevin Harvick met with media at Phoenix International Raceway and discussed the Kyle Busch situation among other
things, the transcript in part:
Q) AS THE TEAM OWNER DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY KYLE BUSCH'S ACTIONS LAST WEEK AT TEXAS, WHAT ARE
YOUR THOUGHTS ON HOW IT'S BEEN HANDLED FROM NASCAR'S STANDPOINT AS WELL AS THE SPONSOR
STANDPOINT?
Harvick: "From a team owner standpoint, it was expensive. I think as you look back at the whole situation, the hardest part
is that was the last time Ron Hornaday will race for a championship? That's the part that bothers me the most. It's pretty
common that people know that I don't care for Kyle regardless of whether he is in trouble or out of trouble, but that's the
guy (Hornaday) I feel like has taken the blunt of everything that happened last week. As far as the way it was handled, it's
not my situation. It's not something that I feel like I need to weigh-in my opinion on, whether it was too much or not
enough; it's just unfortunate for Ron more than for anybody. And I think as you went through the week, hearing the phone
calls that were made to Ron from Kyle at the first part of the week and trying to give him the #18 truck ride for next year
and all the things that he tried to do, he knew how wrong it was, hopefully."
Q) INAUDIBLE
Harvick: "Yeah, as far as I know, (team manager) Rick Wren called Ron and offered him the #18 truck for next year. At
first it started just with him calling Ron trying to get Ron to call NASCAR so he wouldn't lose his job. That was how all that
progressed."(Team Chevy)(11-12-2011)

*Busch parked:
Tempers flared early in Friday night's truck race at Texas Motor Speedway. As they ran three-wide early in Friday's race,
Ron Hornaday moved up the track, causing Kyle Busch, running on the outside, to hit the wall. Hornaday also hit it. As
they slowly went around the track, Busch ran up on the rear of Hornaday and caused Hornaday to smack the wall head-on
in what was hard contact. Hornaday was uninjured. NASCAR called Busch to the hauler to meet with officials after the
race. NASCAR met with Kyle Busch for less than five minutes on Friday night after the race. They will meet with Busch
before Saturday morning's Cup practice (which is at 8:45am/et) to discuss the incident. Hornaday went to the NASCAR
hauler (he wasn't called there by officials) after Kyle left and said: "If NASCAR doesn't (park Busch), I'm hanging around,
and I'm going to buy Tommy Baldwin's ride and that guy will never finish another race. That's a promise. He's got to be
parked. They did it to Harvick at Martinsville.'' Hornaday was reminded that the Harvick parking was in 2002, which
Hornday said: "So, let's have at it? So I can go over and beat his ass and let's have at it? He lives too close to me. We'll see
what NASCAR does. If they don't handle it right, I'll be over at his house Monday morning.''(Virginian-Pilot)(11-5-2011)
NASCAR announced that they have parked Kyle Busch for the remainder of the weekend. He will not be
allowed to participate in the Nationwide or Cup races at Texas. He will be replaced in the Cup race by Michael McDowell
and Denny Hamlin is expected to drive for him in the Nationwide race. Further penalties against Busch could be
announced early in the week.(11-5-2011)
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2011
Champion
2011  Standings
1) #3-Austin Dillon
2) #13-Johnny Sauter
3) #31-James Buescher
4) #33-Ron Hornaday Jr.
5) #17-Timothy Peters
6) #5-Todd Bodine
7) #88-Matt Crafton
8) #22-Joey Coulter
9) #60-Cole Whitt
10) #Nelson Piquet Jr.