“My car was awesome, like when I used to win Busch races here,” said Truex Jr., the recipient of the 2004 and 2005 WIX Filters Lap Leader Awards in the NASCAR Busch Series. “I knew in Happy Hour that I thought I could win the race. This is the first time ever I’ve won the WIX Award in NEXTEL Cup.”

Truex Jr. joins a list of seven drivers who have won the NASCAR Nextel Cup WIX Filters Lap Leader Award this season. With four wins this season, Jeff Gordon continues to hold a one win lead over Tony Stewart for the year-end $75,000 prize and the series title.

In Busch Series competition, Mike Wallace claimed his fourth WIX Filters Lap Leader Award of the season in the Dover 200 on June 2, which placed him in the lead in the Lap Leader point standings. Jason Leffler is following close behind in second place, with three Lap Leader wins this season, while four additional drivers have won one award each in 2007.

Ron Hornaday led three times for 91 laps and captured the victory in the AAA Insurance 200 last weekend to earn his second consecutive NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series WIX Filters Lap Leader Award in 2007. Defending champion Mike Skinner continues to lead this season’s point standings with four weekly awards.

The WIX Filters Lap Leader Award is part of Affinia Group’s Motorsports program, which includes WIX Filters as the number one filter in NASCAR and an exclusive NASCAR Performance Product, the Raybestos Rookie of the Year Award and Raybestos® brand brakes as the Official Brakes of NASCAR.

The WIX Filters Lap Leader Award is presented to the driver who leads the most laps during each race in NASCAR’s NEXTEL Cup, Busch and Craftsman Truck racing series. The award includes a cash prize presented to the winning driver during a ceremony before the next race and an end-of-year payout and trophy for the driver who earns the most WIX Filters Lap Leader awards over the course of the entire season. Cash awards for the end-of-year honor are: $75,000 for the NEXTEL Cup Series; $20,000 for the Busch Series; and, $10,000 for the Craftsman Truck Series.

In order to be eligible for the WIX Filters Lap Leader Award for a single event, drivers and teams in each series must run the WIX Filters decal on the front fender and use WIX oil or air filters in their vehicles. Additionally, for any year-end payout, teams must run the decal on the front fender for every race they participate in, with an allowance for one race, and they must always use WIX oil or air filters.

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