PREVIEW: KYLE BUSCH (NO. 5 CARQUEST/KELLOGG'S CHEVROLET IMPALA SS)
VENUE: BRISTOL MOTOR SPEEDWAY (.533-MILE OVAL)
CIRCUIT: NASCAR NEXTEL CUP SERIES (RACE FIVE OF 36)
EVENT: SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 2007 (500 LAPS, 266.5 MILES)

HENDRICK LOOKING FOR 200TH NASCAR WIN: Car owner Rick Hendrick now has 199 combined NASCAR victories: 151 at the NEXTEL Cup level, 23 in the Busch Series and 25 in the Craftsman Truck Series. The total includes a 1983 Busch Series win by the late Dale Earnhardt at Lowe's Motor Speedway in a car co-owned by Hendrick and Robert Gee.

BUSCH BETTER AT BRISTOL: In 2006, Kyle Busch tackled Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway in the NEXTEL Cup Series, Busch Series and Craftsman Truck Series. He notched eighth- and second-place finishes in the Cup Series, a win and a seventh-place result in the Busch Series, and a sixth-place effort in the trucks. Busch completed all of a possible 1,750 laps in those five events combined.

THE 411 AT BRISTOL: Crew chief Alan Gustafson and the No. 5 CARQUEST/Kellogg's team built Hendrick Motorsports Chassis No. 411 for the maiden voyage of the Chevrolet Impala SS. The car tested at Bristol earlier this month with the rest of the NEXTEL Cup Series competitors.

BUSCH A FAST LEARNER AT BRISTOL: Bristol wasn't kind to Busch in his 2005 NEXTEL Cup rookie campaign when he struggled to 28th- and 33rd-place finishes. Last season, though, he notched a pair of top-10 efforts at the .533-mile oval, placing eighth in March and second in August.

PREPPING IN THE PITS: According to Hendrick Motorsports pit crew coach Mark Mauldin, pit stops on the No. 5 CARQUEST/Kellogg's Chevrolet Impala SS will be slightly different than what the team has experienced with the Chevy Monte Carlo SS. Read his take below.

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KYLE BUSCH, DRIVER OF THE NO. 5 CARQUEST/KELLOGG'S CHEVROLET: (ON FINDING A SETUP FOR THE NEW IMPALA SS.) "For Bristol, the CARQUEST/Kellogg's team is pulling a setup out of the woodwork (LAUGHS). I think it's from 1992 or something. It's really hard to find springs and other things setup-wise that work in these cars because they're so difficult to turn and drive."

BUSCH: (ON GETTING USED TO THE IMPALA.) "It's going to be difficult to go from racing the Monte Carlo and then jump in the Impala for a few races. The insides of the cars are different and they don't drive the same. I would compare the Impala more to driving in the Craftsman Truck Series. It's tough. I don't know what to expect."

BUSCH: (ON HOW MUCH BRISTOL BUMPING WILL OCCUR.) "I don't know if we will be able to lean on each other very much going into the corners. I know at Martinsville the trucks beat and bang on each other a little, but I guess we'll have to see how this race goes. The way the car is designed, I don't know if we can. It's going to be an entirely different Bristol this weekend. I think the typical racing at Bristol will be a thing of the past, at least until we can get this new car worked out."

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ALAN GUSTAFSON, CREW CHIEF OF THE NO. 5 CARQUEST/KELLOGG'S CHEVROLET: (ON HIS EXPECTATIONS FOR THE BRISTOL RACE.) "The race itself is going to be pretty crazy. I don't think there's anyone out there that has a real handle on the new car. Especially at Bristol, which is a tough race track in general, it's going to be rough. We will have to worry about ourselves and also worry about 42 other guys. I saw it happening at the test, some guys brake at different points and I think we're going to have a lot of beating and banging of cars running in the back of one another. The race will probably have a record amount of cautions. Our hope is just to get out of there in one piece."

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MARK MAULDIN, PIT CREW COACH, NOS. 5 AND 25 NEXTEL CUP TEAMS: (ON THE DIFFERENCES IN PITTING THE IMPALA SS COMPARED WITH THE MONTE CARLO SS.) "The distance is longer for the rear-tire changer (to go around the back of the car) than it is for the front-tire changer (to go around the front). The rear guy will have to take an extra step and the front guy will beat him there. There is also going to be a difference for the guys in the back of the car who use the rear spoiler as a reference point. The wing is something I have told the guys they can't touch. It's going to get in the way for our rear-tire guy, the gas man and the catch-can man. We're lucky that our guys are pretty tall because they'll have to reach over the wing to make track-bar and wedge adjustments. We're looking forward to it. It's just another challenge."