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Schrader to drive truck for Bobby Hamilton Racing

Ken Schrader has been tabbed to drive the No. 18 Fastenal Dodge for Bobby Hamilton Racing during the 2007 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season. Schrader will drive the BHR entry in the majority of NCTS events with a to-be-determined driver filling in when Schrader has NASCAR Nextel Cup responsibilities that prevent him from competing in NCTS races.

Schrader and Bobby Hamilton, 2004 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series champion, have been both friends and competitors throughout their NASCAR careers, and now they have joined forces to help re-establish BHR as a championship caliber NCTS team.

“I am thrilled to get the opportunity to drive the Fastenal Dodge,” Schrader said. “Bobby Hamilton and I have been friends for a long time, so to get the chance to work with him is an ideal situation for me. BHR has always had some of the most competitive equipment in the series, and I look forward to climbing into the seat and racing hard.”

Fastenal is a Minnesota-based industrial and construction supply company with more than 1,800 stores in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Singapore and the Netherlands.

“We are really happy to be able to get a driver the caliber of Ken Schrader for the Fastenal Dodge,” Hamilton said. ‘We looked at a number of different drivers as a possibility for this job, but Kenny was just a perfect fit for both BHR and Fastenal.”

Schrader has collected four NASCAR Nextel Cup wins, two NASCAR Busch Series wins and one NASCAR Crafts-man Truck Series win to his credit. He has logged 283,398 miles in NASCAR Cup, Busch and Truck series events, the equivalent of racing around the world 12 times. In other words, Schrader has raced enough miles to go the moon and is now almost a fourth of the way back.

In 2007 the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series will run 25 races on 22 separate racetracks across the United States. All of the NCTS events will be broadcast live nationally on the Speed Channel.

In 68 career Craftsman Truck Series career starts, Schrader has recorded one win, six top-5s and 25 top-10 finishes. Schrader, who has more than 700 Nextel Cup starts, is scheduled to run 26 Cup races in 2007 in the No. 21 car prepared by the Wood Brothers.