Matt Kenseth – NSCS Advance Team: No. 17 DEWALT Ford Fusion Crew Chief: Chip Bolin Chassis: RK-569 A brand new car

FAST FACTS ● Matt Kenseth will make his 17th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start at Martinsville Speedway this weekend. In his previous starts, Kenseth has achieved just two top-five and five top-10 finishes. ● Kenseth’s average start at the .526-mile Virginia track is 24.8. His average finish is 15.6. Kenseth has completed 7901 of 8006 laps (98.7%) attempted at Martinsville. ● The No. 17 crew will be unloading chassis No. 569, a brand new car. Kenseth’s No. 17 Ford will run the DEWALT paint scheme this weekend. ● The logo for Southern Air will ride along on the C-post of the No. 17 DEWALT Ford this weekend. Southern Air is the region’s largest mechanical, HVAC, plumbing, and electrical commercial and residential contractor company - with over 700 employees they cover Virginia, North Carolina and West Virginia. ● Coleman Adams Construction, one of the largest and oldest General Contractor companies in Virginia will ride along on the No. 17’s wings this weekend at Martinsville.

STATS Races Wins Top-5s Top-10s Poles Led Money 16 0 2 5 0 60 $1,421,932

QUOTES Kenseth on racing at Martinsville Speedway: “Martinsville is a track I usually dread racing at. To me, and I’ve said this a lot, Martinsville reminds me of racing around two light poles in some mall parking lot. There’s very little room to race, it’s slow and just real tight quarters - there’s nothing fun about that to me. We had a good showing there in the fall, last year – one of the 17 team’s best. We need to just try and focus on getting a solid finish.”

Crew Chief Chip Bolin on racing at Martinsville Speedway: “Martinsville has been a very, very painful place for team 17. Our best finish there is second place – as soon as we kind of got the track figured out, they reconfigured it. Since then, our best finish is fifth. I feel like last fall was our best showing at Martinsville. Matt actually raced his way to a fifth-place finish – there was no fuel strategy or anything in that race. He started 24th and finished fifth. Hopefully this weekend will be much the same.”