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Statistical Advance: Dover 150

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The 2011 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East will conclude with the Dover 150 on Friday, Sept. 30 at Dover (Del.) International Speedway.

Selected Driver Highlights:
Alex Bowman (No. 16 Toyota)
•  Is sixth in points with seven top 10s in his first 11 NKNPS East races.
•  Is the Sunoco Rookie of the Year leader, nine points ahead of Corey LaJoie.

Clay Campbell (No. 37 Chevrolet)
•  Has made eight starts in his NKNPS East rookie season with a best finish of 13th in his debut at South Boston Speedway.
•  Is the president of Martinsville Speedway.

Matt DiBenedetto (No. 15 Toyota)
•  Has three wins, four poles and 14 top 10s in 18 career NKNPS East starts.
•  Is fourth in points with nine top 10s, including a win at Bowman Gray Stadium.
•  Set the series qualifying record at DIS in 2009 and finished 11th in that event.

Chase Elliott (No. 9 Chevrolet)
•  Is ninth in points with six top-10 finishes in his first 11 career NKNPS East starts.
•  Recorded a career-best effort of third in the second race at Greenville Pickens Speedway.
•  Has clinched third place in the Sunoco Rookie of the Year standings.
•  The son of Bill Elliott, he became the first 15-year-old to compete in a NASCAR touring series race in the opener at GPS, where he finished fourth after starting 26th.

Ryan Gifford (No. 2 Toyota)
•  Has a pole and 10 top-10 finishes in 25 career NKNPS East starts.
•  Is 11th in points with three top 10s this season.
•  Has finishes of ninth and 19th in his two previous starts at DIS
•  In his second season with Revolution Racing and Drive for Diversity.

Max Gresham (No. 18 Toyota)
•  Has four wins, six poles and 15 top 10s in 24 career NKNPS East starts.
•  Leads Brett Moffitt by 21 points in the season standings thanks to wins at Gresham Motorsports Park and New Hampshire Motor Speedway in July. Has finished outside the top 10 just once in 11 races.
•  Is the only driver to complete all 1,553 laps the series has run this year.
•  Earned the pole and led a race-high 84 laps last year at DIS before engine failure late in the event.

Cody Hodgson (No. 03 Chevrolet)
•  Has recorded five top 10s in his first 11 career NKNPS East starts and is 10th in points.
•  Finished eighth at Bowman Gray Stadium, the best result of his rookie season.

Robert Johnson (No. 11 Chevrolet)
•  Made NKNPS East debut at BGS and finished 24th after qualifying third. His other two starts at been at NHMS, where he finished 17th in both.
•  Son of NASCAR Hall of Famer Junior Johnson.

Ben Kennedy (No. 96 Chevrolet)
•  Has made 12 career NKNPS East starts with a best finish of third at BGS.
•  Is 13th in the standings during his first full season in the series.
•  Is the son of Lesa France Kennedy and great-grandson of NASCAR founder Bill France Sr.

Corey LaJoie (No. 07 Ford)
•  Has 10 top 10s in 18 career NKNPS East starts. Seven of those top 10s have come at speedways.
•  Is eighth in points with six top-10 finishes and trails Alex Bowman by nine points for the rookie title.
•  Has finishes of third and second the last two years at DIS.
•  Is the son of Randy LaJoie, a two-time NASCAR Nationwide Series champion.

Eddie MacDonald (No. 71 Chevrolet)
•  Has six wins, two poles and 62 top 10s in 143 career NKNPS East starts.
•  Is seventh in the standings with six top 10s. Best finish this year is third at Iowa Speedway.
•  Has three top 10s in nine previous starts at DIS. Best finish is third in 2004.

Brandon McReynolds (No. 42 Chevrolet)
•  Has six starts with a best finish of eighth at GPS in his debut. Was 10th at NHMS last week.
•  Son of former crew chief and current NASCAR television analyst Larry McReynolds.

Brett Moffitt (No. 00 Toyota)
•  Has seven wins, four poles and 24 top 10s in 32 career NKNPS East starts.
•  Is second in points, 21 behind Max Gresham, with three wins and eight top fives in 11 races.
•  Has led a series-high 447 laps this year.
•  Is the only multi-race winner in NKNPS East history at DIS with victories in 2009 and 2010.

Sergio Peña (No. 4 Toyota)
•  Has three wins and 10 top 10s in 21 career NKNPS East starts.
•  Is fifth in points with seven top 10s and is tied with Brett Moffitt for the series lead with three victories.
•  Finished eighth in his first DIS appearance a year ago.
•  In his second year with Revolution Racing and Drive for Diversity.

Dylan Presnell (No. 14 Toyota)
•  Has three top 10s in five NKNPS East starts with a best finish of seventh at GPS in September. All three top 10s came on short tracks.

Dale Quarterley (No. 32 Chevrolet)
•  Has six wins, four poles and 65 top 10s in 147 career starts.
•  Has a best finish of 11th – at BGS – in four starts this year.
•  Won at DIS in 2004 and has five top 10s in nine starts there, including fifth place last year.

Andrew Ranger (No. 35 Chevrolet)
•  Has two wins, two poles and six top 10s in 15 combined NKNPS East and West starts.
•  Led 10 laps and finished 15th at DIS in 2010.
•  The 2007 and 2009 NASCAR Canadian Tire Series champion, where he has 14 wins in 46 starts.
•  Has two top 10s in 11 career NASCAR Nationwide Series starts.

Darrell Wallace Jr. (No. 6 Toyota)
•  Has four wins, two poles and 17 top 10s in 21 career NKNPS East starts.
•  Is third in points with a pair of wins and 10 top 10s.
•  Finished 25th following an accident in his first appearance at DIS in 2010.
•  The 2010 Sunoco Rookie of the Year, this is his second season with Revolution Racing.

Up to Speed:
•  The 2011 season is the 25th for the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East. The inaugural event was a combination race with the NASCAR Nationwide Series at Darlington Raceway on March 28, 1987. The first stand-alone race was held at Oxford Plains Speedway on April 26.
•  The opener at Greenville (S.C.) Pickens Speedway was postponed from March 26 to April 2 due to rain. Once raceday arrived, Brett Moffitt dominated as he earned the pole and led flag-to-flag for his fifth career victory.
•  Like the first race, the second event of the year at South Boston (Va.) Speedway was postponed by rain to April 17. Revolution Racing took center stage as Darrell Wallace Jr. earned his first career pole and Sergio Peña took his first checkered flag.
•  The third race of the season saw Wallace cruise to the win in the inaugural event at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway on April 28. Max Gresham earned the pole.
•  In the fifth annual East-West combination race at Iowa Speedway on May 21, Matt DiBenedetto was the pole winner and early race leader, but Moffitt wound up in Victory Lane for the first time in three tries at his hometown track in Newton, Iowa.
•  DiBenedetto broke through for his first win of the 2011 season in the series’ inaugural event at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C., on June 4. His teammate, Coleman Pressley, earned the pole.
•  Gresham was dominant at his family’s track, Gresham Motorsports Park in Jefferson, Ga., when he took the pole and checkered flag on June 11.
•  Pressley earned his second pole and Peña was also victorious for the second time in 2011 in the inaugural NKNPS East event at Langley Speedway on June 18 in Hampton, Va.
•  Gresham earned the pole and the race win in the New England 125 on July 15 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H.
•  Wallace took the checkered flag in the inaugural event at Columbus (Ohio) Motor Speedway on July 23. Gresham once again earned the pole.
•  In the return trip to GPS on Sep. 10, Corey LaJoie captured his first career pole and Peña earned his third win of the season.
•  In the second and final trip to NHMS on Sept. 23, Wallace earned the pole and Moffitt took the checkered flag for his third win of the season.

Dover International Speedway:
History
•  Dover International Speedway opened in 1969.
•  The first NASCAR event at the facility was a Sprint Cup Series race on July 6, 1969.
•  The first stand-alone NASCAR K&N Pro Series East race was held on July 18, 1998.
•  DIS is the only primarily-concrete racing surface on which the NKNPS East competes.
•  DIS held 10 NASCAR Nationwide Series–NKNPS East combination races from 1987-92.

Notebook
•  There have been 10 previous stand-alone NKNPS East races at DIS.
•  Of those 10 previous events, there have been nine different race winners and nine different pole winners, with qualifying cancelled one year.
•  Of the nine previous winners, only Brett Moffitt and Dale Quarterley and are expected to enter this race.
•  Moffitt is the two-time defending winner of the race and the only driver in NKNPS East history to earn more than one career win at DIS.
•  Like this year, the previous four NKNPS East championships have been determined at DIS. The series champion has not also won the race in any of those four previous seasons.

Dover International Speedway Data
Race: #12 of 12
Track Layout: One-mile concrete oval
Banking: Nine degrees in the straight-aways, 24 degrees in the turns
Race Length: 150 laps/150 miles

Qualifying/Race Data
2010 Race Winner: Brett Moffitt (1:52.13, 82.875 mph)
2010 Pole Winner: Max Gresham (23.523 seconds, 153.042 mph)
Qualifying Record: Matt DiBenedetto (23.201 seconds, 155.166 mph, 9/25/09)

2011 Category Leaders
Wins: Brett Moffitt, Sergio Peña ... 3
Poles: Max Gresham ... 4
Runner-Ups: Moffitt ... 4
Podium Finishes: Moffitt ... 8
Top 5s: Gresham, Moffitt ... 8
Top 10s: Gresham, D. Wallace Jr. ... 10
Laps Completed: Gresham ... 1553
Laps Led: Moffitt ... 447
Races Led: Gresham, Moffitt, Wallace ... 5