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KESELOWSKI LOOKING TO KEEP TOP-10 STREAK ALIVE IN JRM 027

NASCAR Busch Series rookie Brad Keselowski will make his 10th start for JR Motorsports in the No. 88 Navy Accelerate Your Life Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS in Friday’s Dollar General 300 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.

The JR Motorsports team is racing chassis No. JRM 027 this Friday at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. The team has competed with this car twice before, scoring twin seventh-place finishes with Keselowski at the wheel for the races at Bristol and Dover.

Keselowski has three previous starts at Lowe’s Motor Speedway – two in the Busch Series and one in Truck Series competition. In last year’s Dollar General 300, Keselowski started 32nd and finished 34th. In his only Truck race at LMS, Keselowski finished 24th.

In three prior starts at LMS, the No. 88 JR Motorsports team scored its best finish, 24th, in May.

Five races from the end of the season, the No. 88 Navy team has racked up one top five and seven top-10 finishes. The JR Motorsports team currently sits 18th in the owner points standings.

JR Motorsports announced last week that the company’s Director of Competition Tony Eury Sr. has been named interim crew chief for the No. 88 Navy team and Keselowski for the remainder of the 2007 season. Eury joined JRM in June and has more than 15 years of experience as a crew chief in the NASCAR ranks. Friday’s race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway will be his first atop the No. 88 Navy pit box.

Brad Keselowski, Driver, No. 88 Navy Accelerate Your Life Chevrolet Monte Carlo
“Charlotte’s a pretty cool place to race at, especially under the lights. It’s pretty close to home for a majority of the teams, which makes it extra special for the guys on the team as they race in front of their friends and families. I got to experience that feeling with our run in Michigan, and I’m ready to return the favor to the guys and get them a great finish at their home track.

“We’re taking a car that I’ve run well in the last few times out, so I’m really looking forward to getting out on the track for Friday’s race.”

Navy Notables
The fleet honoree for Friday’s race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway is Fleet Logistics Support Squadron FOUR SIX (VR-46). VR-46 is a Naval Air Reserve Transport Squadron based at Naval Air Station, Atlanta, Ga. The VR-46 staff consists of 166 Selective Reservists and 129 Full Time Support (FTS) and men and women assigned under UIC 08980. The primary mission of VR-46 is to maintain assigned personnel and aircraft in a state of readiness and availability that will permit immediate response and rapid deployment in the event of mobilization. Daily operations consist of transporting passengers and cargo on scheduled flights throughout the United States, Caribbean, Mediterranean and Western Pacific theaters of operation. Commander James J. Guzzetti, United States Navy Reserve, is the Commanding Officer of VR-46. The Executive Officer is Commander Ronald R. Himmelreich, United States Navy. The Commanding Officer exercises operational and administrative control of the squadron and reports directly to Commander, Fleet Logistics Support Wing (CFLSW), located at Joint Reserve Base, Fort Worth, Texas.

Event Information
Dollar General 300
10/12/07
Lowe’s Motor Speedway
Concord, North Carolina
1.5-Mile Oval
TV – ESPN2 at 7:30 p.m. ET
Radio – PRN at 7:30 p.m. ET

Team Information
Chassis – JRM No. 027
Chassis Info – finished seventh at Dover and Bristol
Engine – RCR
Primary Sponsor – U.S. Navy
Associate Sponsors – Chevrolet, Champion, R&B, Puma, Snap-On, Miller, Wix Filters, Sherwin Williams, Racing Radios