• Back on Track With DIRECTV … For the third time this season, Bowyer’s No. 07 Chevy will sport a DIRECTV paint scheme. DIRECTV is the nation’s leading digital television service provider. DIRECTV is also the official satellite television service provider of NASCAR. The team’s customary primary sponsor, Jack Daniel’s, will be featured on the car’s lower-rear quarter panels and deck lid.

• Statistically Speaking … In four starts at Dover, including NEXTEL Cup and Busch Series races, Bowyer has completed all 1,000 laps of scheduled competition. In three NASCAR Busch Series races, Bowyer boasts and impressive 3.7 starting average coupled with a mean finish of 8.4. In his lone NEXTEL Cup start on Dover’s high banks, the 27-year-old driver started 22nd and finished 17th.

• $3 Million Dollar Man … Following last week’s race at New Hampshire, Bowyer surpassed the $3 million mark in 2006 earnings.

• RCR at Dover … RCR Team owner Richard Childress has earned three wins at Dover, all of them coming with Dale Earnhardt. Earnhardt won both events at the “Monster Mile” in 1989. The seven-time champion also won the spring race in 1993. Additionally, RCR has earned one pole, 19 top-five and 32 top-10 finishes at the high-banked concrete oval. Childress, a former driver in NASCAR’s top division, contributed three of those top 10s from 1976-1980.

• Dover Busch Series Brawl … After a weekend off from Busch Series competition, Bowyer returns to the seat of the No. 2 ACDelco Chevrolet for this weekend’s Dover 200. The 29th race on the 2006 Busch Series calendar will be televised live in TNT Saturday, September 23 beginning at 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Bowyer is currently fourth in the Busch Series championship point standings, 186 out of third and 226 markers out of second. Bowyer’s RCR teammate Kevin Harvick holds a healthy 619-point advantage over second-place Carl Edwards.

• Up to Speed … The Dover 400 from Dover International Speedway will take the green flag Sunday, September 24 at 12:30 p.m. EDT and will be televised live on TNT and broadcast nationwide on the Motor Racing Network (MRN) and XM Satellite Radio. Qualifying for the 28th of 36 points-paying races on the 2006 NEXTEL Cup schedule will be televised live on SPEED Friday, September 22 at 3 p.m. EDT. MRN and XM Satellite Radio will provide qualifying updates live.

CLINT BOWYER QUOTES:

Now that you’re going back to some of these race tracks for the second time, is that part of the reason the Jack Daniel’s Racing Team is running better?

“That’s a huge reason why we’re running better. Now that we’re going back to these tracks for the second time, we’ve got some good notes to work off of. If we ran well, we can work from those notes and hopefully be better. The same thing applies at some of the tracks where we didn’t run so well. We want to use our notes to figure out where we went wrong to make us better. We’ve been looking forward to coming to these tracks a second time knowing we would be stronger and better prepared. With the exception of last week at New Hampshire, I think our results have shown that.”

You started out the season as a rookie and now that tag is beginning to fall away. You had a great run at Indianapolis and backed it up at California with a top three. Do you feel like this team has built itself up enough to where a win is a realistic goal?

“We started out the year pretty strong at Daytona and finished in the top five at Phoenix. We had good cars at Richmond both times this year. Indianapolis and California were certainly highlights of our big track program. I feel like we can be a threat to win wherever we go as long as we stick to our guns and capitalize on what made us successful the first time around.”

Talk about your first race in a NEXTEL Cup car at Dover.

“We ran really well at Dover in June. We ran in the top five all day but wound up with a bad set of tires in the end and finished 17th but that’s kind of been our story this year. There have been more than a few races where we ran up front all day long and wound up with a finish that didn’t reflect how well we ran. We ran fifth behind Jeff Gordon the whole race and wound up going backward at the end so I’m definitely looking forward to going back. I think everyone on this team feels like we have something to prove.”

What did you think of Dover the first time you took a fast lap around the track?

“I thought it was cool. I have a lot of fun racing at Dover. It’s a momentum-type of race track. You really have to get into a groove at Dover and get into the swing of things right away. It’s a fast race track and a little bit intimidating your first few laps around but I loved it right off the bat. The sensation of speed at Dover is unbelievable. You go off into those high banks with a lot of speed and kinda let it slide up and that bank catches you and you’re back to the hammer wide-open. It’s a lot of fun to be able to drive around a place like Dover.”