PREVIEW: KYLE BUSCH (NO. 5 KELLOGG'S/CARQUEST IMPALA SS)
VENUE: RICHMOND INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY (.75-MILE D-SHAPED OVAL)
CIRCUIT: NASCAR NEXTEL CUP SERIES (RACE 10 OF 36)
EVENT: SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2007 (400 LAPS, 300 MILES)

DRIVING LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW: After a seventh-place finish at Phoenix International Raceway, Kyle Busch kept his streak of top-10 finishes in the Impala SS alive. His "Car of Tomorrow" record also includes a win at Bristol, Tenn., and a fourth-place result at Martinsville, Va.

IMPRESSIVE RICHMOND RECORD: Busch has competed in four Cup-level races at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway, finishing in the top five in each. He has held the lead in three of those events, most impressively pacing 248 circuits last September en route to a second-place finish. At Richmond, Busch holds the second-highest driver rating (116.2) and has compiled a four-race average running position of 5.799. He has an average finish of 3.75 at the .75-mile oval.

MAY BIRTHDAYS: Five members of the No. 5 Kellogg's/CARQUEST team have birthdays in May. Crew member Jimmy "Biscuit" Parrott, a native of Taylors, S.C., will celebrate May 1; driver Kyle Busch turns 22 on May 2; High Point, N.C., native and longtime Hendrick Motorsports transporter driver Dean "Squirrel" Mozingo turns 40 on May 6; mechanic and Willmar, Minn., native Kevin "Slim" Hulstein turns 28 on May 25; and team scorer Kaye Jenkins from Kershaw, S.C., will enjoy birthday cake on May 29.

VOTE FOR BUSCH: Busch is one of 19 drivers eligible for this year's Talladega/Texaco Walk of Fame. The driver who gets the most votes will be inducted into the Talladega/Texaco Walk of Fame, located in the Davey Allison Memorial Park in Talladega, Ala. Fans wishing to vote may log onto www.talladegawalk.com from April 15-July 15.

CAR SELECTION FOR RICHMOND: Crew chief Alan Gustafson has selected Hendrick Motorsports Chassis No. 418 as the team's primary Impala SS for this weekend's NEXTEL Cup event at Richmond. The car participated in the test session at RIR last month and also finished a solid seventh in Phoenix two weeks ago.

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KYLE BUSCH, DRIVER OF THE NO. 5 KELLOGG'S/CARQUEST IMPALA SS: (ON MENTALLY GETTING PAST HIS ACCIDENTS AT TALLADEGA.) "It's a little more challenging than I thought. After the Busch Series wreck, I had to get back into the No. 5 CARQUEST/Kellogg's Chevy on Sunday and do it all over again. Our luck was just bad. The field was starting to get squirrelly with 60 (laps) to go and we had a good car. I was just minding my own business on the bottom of the track, just fading to the back of the pack being patient and waiting until it was time to make a move. Then something happened in the front (of the pack) and it sent cars shooting across the track. I had nowhere to go but into the side of the No. 13 car (Joe Nemechek). I took three more really hard hits before it was all over. It was just a tough weekend for both the No. 5 Busch and NEXTEL Cup efforts."

BUSCH: (ON THE IMPALA SS AT RICHMOND.) "The Hendrick Motorsports organization as a whole has been awesome with the new Impala SS. That's a testament to our research and development efforts. But even though we took the No. 5 CARQUEST/Kellogg's car to victory lane at Bristol, I'm still struggling with the car and getting it to turn better. They are tough (to drive)."

BUSCH: (ON HIS SUCCESSFUL PAST PERFORMANCES AT RICHMOND.) "In general it helps that we've done extremely well at Richmond in the Cup Series, but all those notes are going to be thrown out the window. I think the Nos. 24 and 48 are going to be really stout. We were just OK at the test, and even though I've run so well there in the past, I don't think it's going to matter this weekend in the Impala. We're taking the car we ran with at Phoenix so it's a good car. We just need to figure out the setup and go from there. We've been so close to victory every time we raced at Richmond, and I feel like we owe it to ourselves to win one."