Kahne joins the season’s list of WIX Filters Lap Leader winners, with Jeff Gordon leading the point standings for the year-end WIX Filters Lap Leader Award $75,000 prize and series title with six Lap Leader Award wins this season. Defending WIX Filters Lap Leader champion Tony Stewart is following closely with five Lap Leader Awards; Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr. have won three; and six additional drivers have claimed at least one weekly award this season in NEXTEL Cup competition.

In Busch Series racing, Jason Leffler has clinched his fourth Lap Leader Award in 2007 by leading 81 laps in the Food City 250 at Bristol Motor Speedway last weekend. His latest win moved him into a first-place tie in the point standings with Mike Wallace for this season’s title.

Johnny Benson led 84 laps and clinched the win in the O’Reilly “200” on August 22 to earn his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series WIX Filters Lap Leader Award this season. Mike Skinner, who claimed the WIX Filters Lap Leader Award series title in 2005 and 2006, continues to lead the series point standings with eight Lap Leader wins in 2007.

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.

Since 1939, WIX Filtration has been an innovator in filtration products. WIX designs, manufactures and distributes products for automotive, diesel, agricultural, industrial and specialty filter markets. Its product line includes oil, air, cabin interior, fuel, coolant, transmission and hydraulic filters for automobiles, trucks and off-road equipment. WIX is the number one filter in NASCAR and an exclusive NASCAR Performance Product. For more information, visit www.wixfilters.com.

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