No. 25 crew takes second Checkers®/Rally’s® Double Drive-Thru Challenge of season 

Casey Mears’ No. 25 over-the-wall crew earned the Checkers®/Rally’s® Double Drive-Thru Challenge win in Sunday’s Nextel Cup race at Dover International Speedway.

By spending 315.217 seconds on pit road, the National Guard/GMAC crew took top honors in the weekly competition for the second time this season.

“Everyone on our No. 25 National Guard/GMAC Chevrolet team did a great job at Dover, and the pit crew deserves this award because their efforts kept us in the hunt all day,” said crew chief Darian Grubb. “Casey got into the tight Dover pit boxes the best he possibly could each time we came in, which helped the crew maintain their timing and allowed them to show the skills they’ve been honing all season.”

• Carl Edwards, driver of the No. 99 Office Depot Ford Fusion, finds himself eighth in the Chase for the Nextel Cup (63 points out of first) after a 12^th-place finish Sunday at New Hampshire International Speedway. Edwards looked ahead to this week’s race at Dover International Speedway – the second straight car of tomorrow race in the chase.

• Matt Kenseth, driver of the No. 17 DeWalt Ford Fusion, made his NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series debut at Dover International Speedway when he served as a fill-in driver for Bill Elliott in 1998. Kenseth, who is seventh in the Chase for the Nextel Cup, was this week’s teleconference guest.

• Marcos Ambrose, driver of the No. 59 Kingsford Ford Fusion, returns to the Monster Mile of Dover International Speedway this weekend. Ambrose is seventh in championship points and trails David Ragan in the Raybestos Rookie-of-the-Year standings by 25 points.

• David Starr, driver of the No. 10 International Maxx Force Diesel Ford F-150, has enjoyed a great deal of success at this week’s stop on the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series circuit – Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Starr won his first touring series race at the 1.5-mile oval and then won his first NCTS event in 2002 at LVMS.