Matt Kenseth
Team: No. 17 DEWALT Ford Taurus
Owner: Jack Roush/Mark Martin
Crew Chief: Robbie Reiser
Chassis: MMR-39 (led 60 laps at Dover last month before an accident)
Matt Kenseth on racing at Lowe’s Motor Speedway:
“Lowe’s has always been one of my favorite tracks on the circuit and we always seem to run pretty good here. The Roush cars in general seem to all run pretty good here so I hope we can run up front and lead some laps here and challenge for a win. We need more than a good finish—we need a great finish right now, but I know this team is capable of it here.”
Crew Chief Robbie Reiser on racing at Lowe’s Motor Speedway:
“This is our Dover car and we got to lead some laps with it when we ran there so we know it’s a good car. I just hope it translates to Charlotte like it did at Dover. It’s one of our newest chassis that we have in the shop.”
Fast Facts
Matt Kenseth finished 17th at Kansas one week ago. He has 16 top-10 finishes in 30 starts in 2004. Kenseth has now been inside the NASCAR Top-10 for 65 straight weeks—the longest active streak.
Kenseth has one win, four top-fives and six top-10’s at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. He also won the inaugural NEXTEL All-Star challenge event back in May of this year.
Kenseth’s first Nextel Cup victory came here on May 28, 2000 as he won the Coca-Cola 600 as a rookie.
Kenseth will also be running his No. 17 Bayer Busch Grand National car at Lowe’s Motor Speedway.
