#1-Jamie McMurray: Bono and the #1 McDonald’s team will bring chassis #803 to Dover this weekend. This chassis has been used only once this season last month at Bristol where McMurray qualified seventh and finished third. The chassis was used in the 2009 season at both Pocono events and the second Auto Club Speedway event finishing 18th, 19th and 22nd. The team also tested this chassis in June at the Atlanta.
#2-Kurt Busch and his Steve Addington-led “Blue Deuce” team will be debuting their brand new “PRS-736” Dodge Charger at Dover this weekend. “It’s a sister car to the one that we debuted last weekend at Loudon (New Hampshire Motor Speedway),” offered crew chief Steve Addington.
#6-David Ragan: Primary: RK-638 Last ran Darlington – finished 14th; Backup: RK-620 Last ran Vegas – finished 23rd
#12-Brad Keselowski: The #12 Penske Dodge Charger team will use chassis PRS-726 during Sunday’s AAA 400 at Dover. Keselowski last drove this chassis to a 34th-place finish at Michigan in August.
#14-Tony Stewart: Chassis No. 14-530: This was a brand new racecar for 2009 that, prior to its debut at Richmond in May, had only been tested in the wind tunnel. At Richmond, Stewart used Chassis No. 14-530 to qualify 16th and rally from the 17th position in the final 50 laps around the .75-mile oval to score his second runner-up effort of the season. It saw action unexpectedly in June at New Hampshire when the team’s primary car was crashed in the opening minutes of the weekend’s first practice. Chassis No. 14-530’s third career start came at Richmond in the series’ return visit in September. The off-season brought about a complete rebuild for Chassis No. 14-530 in preparation for its first start of 2010 at Bristol, where it qualified 11th and finished second to Jimmie Johnson in a late-race duel. Its sixth career start and second of 2010 came in June at Dover, the only other concrete oval on the circuit. It started 16th and finished ninth. Chassis No. 14-530 returned to Bristol for the track’s annual night race in August. It qualified fourth – its best qualifying effort in six attempts – and ran second to leader Johnson for the race’s first 125 laps before the .533-mile bullring showed its horns to Stewart, with multiple on-track incidents conspiring for a 27th-place finish. It returns to the concrete with this weekend’s race at Dover.
#17-Matt Kenseth: RK-672 (Last run at Michigan)
#18-Kyle Busch: Chassis No. 277: This chassis will make its third-ever start in Sundays AAA 400 at Dover. In its first start, at Pocono in August, Busch started 21st and finished 23rd in the Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500. The #18 team brought this chassis back two weeks ago for the Air Guard 400 at Richmond, where it started a distant 32nd, but finished a solid second.
#19-Elliott Sadler: The #19 RPM team has prepared chassis #652 for this weekend’s event. This is the same car the team utilized in the spring race at Dover. Sadler drove to a 28th-place finish after losing ground with a loose wheel midway through the event.
#20-Joey Logano: The #20 Home Depot Team is taking chassis #275 this weekend for the AAA 400. This will be the third time this chassis will be raced this season and it has two top-10 finishes. Logano piloted chassis #275 to a ninth-place finish at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and crossed the stripe 10th at Michigan in August. The back-up chassis is #272 which has competed in three races in 2010: Chicagoland (18th) the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway (16th) and in June at Michigan (10th).
#29-Kevin Harvick: will pilot Chassis #301 from the RCR stable. Built new for 2010, this Chevy was tested at Charlotte in April. Harvick finished seventh with this car at Texas in April, 11th in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte in May, and suffered a fuel pressure issue at Chicagoland in July and finished 34th.
#31-Jeff Burton: will pilot chassis #314 from the RCR stable. Built new this season, this is the same Caterpillar Chevy Burton drove to a fourth-place finish at Atlanta three weeks ago.
#33-Clint Bowyer: will pilot chassis #298 from the RCR stable. Built new in 2010, this #33 racer made its debut at Atlanta March, where Bowyer finished 23rd following late-race contact that cut down his left-rear tire. In May, Bowyer was in line for another solid finish at Dover but, on the final pit stop of the day, he left his stall with the jack wedged underneath the #33 machine, resulting in a pit road penalty, the loss of a lap and a less-than-desired 17th-place finish. Most recently, the Emporia, Kan., native started on the outside row and led 59 laps en route to a ninth-place finish in this #33 Impala at Pocono in June before returning to the triangular-shaped race track in August to post a 15th-place finish.
#39-Ryan Newman: Chassis No. 39-516: This chassis has been the only chassis to see action on both concrete racetracks ‘Â Bristol and Dover during the past two seasons. In four races during the 2009 season, the chassis never finished outside of the top-10. The car finished seventh and sixth at Bristol and eighth and 10th at Dover, respectively. Over the winter, Tony Gibson & Company updated the chassis in preparation for the 2010 season. The chassis saw action at Bristol last March and, although Newman flirted with a top-10 result, he finished a disappointing 16th following a late-race lug nut issue on a pit stop. At Dover in May, Newman qualified sixth and fought back from tire issues to finish 13th. In its most recent outing in the Bristol night race in August, the chassis scored its first top-10 finish of the 2010 season as Newman started and finished sixth at the .533-mile bullring.
#42-Juan Pablo Montoya: Pattie and the #42 team are bringing chassis #903 to Dover. This chassis was used last month at Bristol where Montoya qualified eighth and finished seventh. In its other four previous starts it has two top-10 finishes of sixth and tenth last season at Michigan- June and Chicago- July.
#43-A.J. Allmendinger: The #43 RPM team led by crew chief Mike Shiplett has prepared chassis #288 for this weekend’s event at Dover. This chassis has been utilized on quite a few other occasions this season including the first race at Dover in the spring. In addition, it was run in at Michigan several weeks ago, at Chicagoland, Pocono and the first event at Bristol.
#48-Jimmie Johnson: last piloted chassis #558 to a 22nd-place finish at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in July. Backup chassis #553 was driven to Victory Lane by Johnson at Auto Club Speedway in February.
#88-Dale Earnhardt Jr.: Crew chief Lance McGrew and the #88 engineers will unload Hendrick Motorsports Chassis #88-556, which is the first car McGrew built from scratch for Earnhardt. This chassis, which Earnhardt debuted in 2009 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, last was raced to a 25th-place finish at Chicagoland in July.
#98-Paul Menard: Crew chief Slugger Labbe and the #98 RPM crew have prepared chassis #556 for this weekend’s event. This car was last utilized in the race at Chicagoland where Menard qualified inside the top 10 and remained there during the race. It was also run in the spring race at Bristol.
#99-Carl Edwards: RK-705 – This is a brand new car.(from team PR’s/sites if reported)(9-16-2010)
