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ELLIOTT
SADLER
DOVER
RACE PREVIEW
STATESVILLE,
N.C. - Elliott Sadler's No. 19 Dodge will sport a familiar black, white
and orange paint scheme at Dover's "Monster Mile" this weekend honoring
those electronic wizards with the white shirts and clip-on ties from
Best Buy-the Geek Squad.
Sadler's race car looks similar to the signature car driven by the
21,000 certified Geek Squad agents around the world. Instead of solving
customers' electronic challenges, Sadler hopes to drive his No. 19 Best
Buy/Geek Squad Dodge to another top-10 finish. On Sunday at New
Hampshire Motor Speedway Sadler finished eighth-his fourth top-10 finish
in 2009.
Sadler Quotes
SADLER ON DOVER: "Dover is a pretty good race track for us usually. We
normally qualify really well there. But, Dover can just jump up and get
you sometimes. I've had a couple run-ins with the Monster and he's won
his fair share. Maybe this time I'll drop off an Ipod from Best Buy at
its feet with some calm music and try to put the beast to sleep for a
couple days."
SADLER ON EIGHTH-PLACE FINISH AT NEW HAMPSHIRE: "We all try to do our
best each and every week. It'd been a while since the No. 19 team
recorded a top-10, so it was really great to see the guys smiling after
a good, solid race. We have nine more weeks to try and learn as much as
we can about each other as a team and get this No. 19 Dodge headed in
the right direction for the folks at Best Buy and Stanley. We want to do
everything we can to build momentum the rest of this year and learn as
much as we can to give us a leg up going into 2010."
Additional Notes of Interest
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Best Buy - Dover (1165 N. Dupont Hwy) is
hosting a private shopping event exclusively for NASCAR hard card
and crew members on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009 from 7 - 9:30 p.m.
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Prizes given away throughout the evening
include a $500 Best Buy Gift Card. The first 300 guests through the
door will receive a PS3 game controller courtesy of Insignia.
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Sadler will make a return visit to the Best
Buy store on Saturday from 10-11 a.m. to sign autographs for the
first 300 people.
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Geek Squad is conveniently located in every
one of the over 1,000 Best Buy stores around the country and home to
more than 21,000 Geek Squad agents.
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Sadler is tied with Tony Stewart for the
longest active non-DNF streak (50 races) of drivers that have
competed in every race. Teammate Reed Sorenson now has the longest
overall streak at 53 races, but did not compete last season at
Infineon.
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Sadler's last DNF occurred on June 1, 2008 at
Dover. Both Sadler and Stewart were involved in the same on-track
incident to start their current streaks.
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Sadler has started 12th or better in nine of
the last 11 races at Dover International Speedway.
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On Tuesday, Sept. 8, Sadler and wife Amanda
announced they are expecting the birth of their first child in March
2010.
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SPEED TV viewers can see Sadler every Friday
night on "Trackside Live" for the rest of the season.
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Elliott Sadler has officially become a member
of the Twitter community. Follow Elliott's updates by clicking HERE
or by visiting
www.twitter.com/Elliott_Sadler.
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Follow along with Richard Petty Motorsports
each weekend for real-time in-race updates on Twitter at
www.twitter.com/RPMotorsports.
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Richard Petty Motorsports also posts pre-race
advances, post-race reports, appearance notices, videos, photos and
notes on its Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/RichardPettyMotorsports
Television Schedule
DOVER SCHEDULE
Date: Friday Sept. 25
P1: 11:00 a.m. SPEED
Qual. 3:00 p.m. ESPN2
Date: Saturday Sept. 26
P2: 12:30 p.m. None
HH: 7 p.m. ESPN2
Date: Sunday Sept. 27
Race: 1:00 p.m. ABC
MRN Radio and
Sirius XM Channel 128
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