MOORE COUNTING ON RETURN TO HIS HOME TRACK
 TO IGNITE SPARK IN HIS KEY MOTORSPORTS RACE TEAM

MOORESVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA (September 6, 2006) – Ryan Moore is heading home, and he is looking for the visit to pay dividends for his Key Motorsports, NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series team.

A 3-year veteran of the old NASCAR Busch North Series, Moore came south a couple of years ago as a development driver for Dale Earnhardt, Inc. The 23-year-old Scarborough, Maine driver had left behind a brief but successful career in that Series, earning Rookie of the Year honors in 2003 and steadily moving up the point standings thanks to several victories and a bunch of top five and top ten finishes.

One of Moore’s favorite racetracks during his Busch North driving days is the fast mile oval at the New Hampshire International Speedway, and when the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series invades New England next week for the running of the Sylvania 200, Moore will be amongst the entrants in the #40 Key Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado. He is hoping that a little home cooking will aid his efforts.

“I am looking forward to the race in Loudon,” Moore confessed. “It is one of my favorite tracks, and I am anxious to see just how I can do there in a truck,” he added.

Moore has been the driver for Key Motorsports since late May, succeeding veteran Chad Chaffin who decided to leave the fledgling Key Motorsports organization to concentrate on his NASCAR Nextel Cup Series effort. All Moore has done over the last three months is qualify and compete in 10 of the 11races in which he was entered, post a season-best 14th place finish at Texas Motor Speedway and record a team-high 10th place qualifying run at Michigan International Speedway. No one, including Moore, is content with that, however.

“We need to have our stuff right up there (at Loudon), more so than where we have been,” explained Moore, who in his 10 starts for Key Motorsports was competing on race tracks for the very first time. “Sure it helps to know the race track and everything, but it’s not going to help if we don’t have the truck driving the way it needs to drive and with the right set-up. I have had a lot of success at Loudon before, and I think Barry (crew chief Dodson) and I have a pretty good idea of what we need. If we can then get our motor program to be at its best, we should be OK,” he added.

Moore was finally able to get out of a brief slump of sorts with an 18th place finish in Nashville. It ended what was a 4-race string of 31st place finishes or worse, and he accomplished the feat in a black race truck after campaigning solid white Key Motorsports Chevrolets. Moore will be in that same black machine when the trucks first take to the NHIS oval next Friday morning.

During his Busch North racing days, Moore was experiencing a similar lull in his efforts while running cars painted white. To try and turn things around, the team elected to paint their racecars black, and immediately Moore’s performances improved. He hopes that same magic can again rub off when he gets the opportunity to race a truck in front of his home crowd in New Hampshire.

“Because many of the Craftsman Truck Series drivers have competed at Loudon so many times, I’m not going to have the kind of advantage that most people would think I have,” Moore explained. “But I do know the race track and what I can and can’t do at that track, so if I have the equipment under me that I need, we should be fine,” he added.

The Key Motorsports contingent is looking for a strong performance at New Hampshire to aid its drive for top 30 status in the Series in team owner points. Such status guarantees these teams a start in each race without worrying about qualifying. The team currently sits in the 33rd position, 189 points out of the 30th position despite running five less races than the team the #40 gang is chasing.