Matt Kenseth – NSCS ADVANCE
Team: No. 17 NESN National Ford Fusion
Crew Chief: Jimmy Fennig
Chassis: Primary: RK-802 (last raced at Dover)
Kenseth NSCS record at New Hampshire Motor Speedway:
Date Event S F Laps Status Earnings
09/25/11 Sylvania 300 27 6 300/300 Running $135,411
07/17/11 Lenox Indus. Tools 301 30 20 301/301 Running $115,911
09/19/10 Sylvania 300 33 23 300/300 Running $121,226
06/27/10 Lenox Indus. Tools 301 33 17 300/301 Running $122,624
09/20/09 Sylvania 300 38 23 300/300 Running $122,590
06/28/09 Lenox Indus. Tools 301 10 22 273/273 Running $121,490
09/14/08 Sylvania 300 12 40 228/300 Crash $117,341
06/29/08 Lenox Indus. Tools 301 9 18 284/284 Running $122,241
09/16/07 Sylvania 300 30 7 300/300 Running $141,191
07/01/07 Lenox Indus. Tools 300 30 9 300/300 Running $130,741
09/17/06 Sylvania 300 25 10 300/300 Running $130,466
07/16/06 Lenox Indus. Tools 300 24 14 308/308 Running $119,716
09/19/05 Sylvania 300 4 3 300/300 Running $169,311
07/17/05 New England 300 16 10 300/300 Running $127,486
09/19/04 Sylvania 300 5 2 300/300 Running $175,108
07/25/04 Siemens 300 31 4 300/300 Running $146,103
09/14/03 Sylvania 300 19 7 300/300 Running $80,750
07/20/03 New England 300 1 3 300/300 Running $124,030
09/15/02 New Hampshire 300 17 10 207/207 Running $73,875
07/21/02 New England 300 6 33 299/300 Running $71,225
11/23/01 New Hampshire 300 16 4 300/300 Running $82,525
07/22/01 New England 300 21 16 300/300 Running $54,550
09/17/00 Dura Lube 300 38 17 298/300 Running $51,625
07/09/00 thatlook.com 22 19 272/273 Running $54,400
Races Wins Top 5s Top 10s Poles Earnings
Cumulative 24 0 5 12 1 $2,711,936
Kenseth on racing at New Hampshire Motor Speedway:
“Loudon has been a track that we’ve struggled at for the past four or five years but our last outing we ran pretty competitively so I’m looking forward to building upon that. New Hampshire is an interesting race track because it drives like a short track even though it’s a one-mile track, and it’s challenging in the fact that there isn’t a lot of room to pass, so track position is very important there. We’ve just got to run a clean race, with a good afternoon in the pits as well, and hopefully we can have a solid run there.”
Crew chief Jimmy Fennig on racing at New Hampshire Motor Speedway:
“We’re going to work on qualifying more than we normally do this weekend. New Hampshire is a tough track because there isn’t a lot of room to pass for position, so we want to make sure that we give Matt every advantage we can. We have a few other packages that we will try out during practices this weekend of things that we might want to do when we return in the fall during the Chase. We will unload with the same package we ran last September in our No. 17 Ford since it was pretty good, and we’ll see what happens this Sunday.”
FAST FACTS:
• Kenseth has an average starting position of 20.7 and an average finishing position of 14.0 at Loudon
• Kenseth has achieved one pole, five top-five, and 12 top-10 finishes at New Hampshire
• Kenseth has completed 6,970 of 7,047 (98.9 percent) laps at Loudon and led for a total of 88 laps
• This weekend at Loudon, Kenseth will pilot the No. 17 NESN National Ford Fusion
• Entering this weekend, Kenseth is currently leading the Sprint Cup Series driver point standings
