Roush Fenway Racing Fast Facts
* David Ragan ran his first Craftsman Truck Series race in the No. 6 Scotts F-150 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in March 2006. He started 16th and finished 22nd.
* Ragan also competed in the Craftsman Trucks in October 2006 when he started 11th and finished sixth.
* Ragan most recently competed in at AMS in the NEXTEL Cup Series in March 2007. He started 38th and finished 33rd.
* Ragan is currently 22nd in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series point standings.
* Ragan is currently second in the Raybestos Rookie of the Year race. He trails Juan Pablo Montoya by 19 points.
* In the spring race at Atlanta, Greg Biffle was running ninth on lap 230 when contact from David Reutimann sent him into the wall.
* Biffle has one win, five top-five finishes, and six top-10 finishes in seven NASCAR Busch Series starts at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
* Biffle finished seventh last week at Martinsville and currently sits 15th in the point standings, 95 points out of 13th.
* This weekend, Biffle will run a yellow and black Lumber Liquidators paint scheme.
* Matt Kenseth’s fifth-place finish at Martinsville was only his second top-five at the. 526-mile speedway, and his first since 2002.
* By finishing fifth at Martinsville, Kenseth snapped the worst four-race stretch of his 288-race Cup career. Starting at Dover and carrying through Charlotte, Kenseth failed to finish on the lead lap and finished 26th of worse in each race.
* For the second time this season Kenseth’s No. 17 Ford will carry the DEWALT NANO Technology paint scheme. The predominantly black car will run twice more, at Phoenix and Homestead.
* Kenseth’s average finish during the Chase at Atlanta is 16.6; ranking sixth among all Chase tracks.
* Kenseth has three top-five finishes in the last four Atlanta Cup races.
* What a difference a year makes – Last season, Kenseth entered Atlanta 36 points ahead of the field in first place in the Championship Standings. This season, Kenseth currently sits 12th, 462 points out of first.
* In 10 career Cup starts at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Jamie McMurray has three top-10 finishes. In Busch competition, McMurray has one win at the 1.5-mile speedway.
* This weekend, McMurray will participate in the NASCAR Busch Series race in Memphis, Tenn.
* McMurray will pilot the No. 26 Crown Royal Ford Fusion in this weekend’s Pep Boys 500.
* In his last run at the 1.5-mile speedway in March 2007, McMurray posted a 15th-place finish.
* Carl Edwards is currently fifth in the ‘Chase’ for the NEXTEL Cup with 5770 points, 285 points behind the leader, Jeff Gordon
* Edwards will make his seventh Cup start at Atlanta this weekend. In his previous six starts, Edwards has achieved two wins, three top-five and five top-10 finishes.
* Edwards’ average finish at Atlanta is 9.8. His average running position of 11.9 is eighth best among active drivers. His driver rating of 104 is fourth-best
* Edwards captured his first NEXTEL Cup and NASCAR Busch Series wins at Atlanta in March of 2005
* This weekend BSD sales contest winners Grimmett’s Gang and Riley’s Racers will have special decals on the No. 99 at Atlanta

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