2002 Chevy Express Grill Paint Color
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Gentlemen, Alpha Your Engines...in 24 days.
In aloof over three weeks, the ritual begins anew: The Budweiser Shootout, Daytona Qualifying and the Daytona 500 (February 20), followed by a continued division of tailgating, barbecuing, chasing, accident and achievement lapping.
But afore you alpha accepting a butt of the new scoring arrangement and tallying up the points, booty a attending at all the new NASCAR Sprint Cup acrylic schemes in 2011.
This account actualization the rides that accept afflicted their attending in 2011, as able-bodied as any accepted disciplinarian moves (i.e. drivers antic new paint). There are still a cardinal of schemes yet to be revealed. Those you will see actuality are the latest available.
Noted forth the way are Amateur of the Year, Daytona 500 and Cup winners, and car ownership.
Photo: Check out the bad-ass new atramentous Budweiser car.
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Jamie McMurray had his best acknowledged division in 2010, acceptable three races, including both the Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400—joining Dale Jarrett and Jimmie Johnson as the alone three drivers to do it in the aforementioned year—but afresh bootless to accomplish the The Chase.
He was the 2003 Nextel Cup Amateur of the Year.
In January 2011, McMurray active a multi-year addendum to chase for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing.
This season, Widia joins McDonald's and Bass Pro Shops in allotment the No. 1 car. Widia is "metalworking's oldest and best trusted brand."
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Brad Keselowski will be demography over the No. 2 car from Kurt Busch for Penske Racing.
The acrylic arrangement will be the aforementioned as Busch's aftermost year.
Keselowski fabricated his Sprint Cup admission in 2008. He's got one win: the Aaron's 499 at Talladega in 2009.
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Popular Kasey Kahne moves from Richard Petty Racing's No. 9 car to the Red Bull Antagonism Team's No. 4. In 2012, though, he'll be affective to Hendrick Motorsports to booty over the No. 5 from Mark Martin.
Kahne has won 11 Cup contest in his career and was the NASCAR Nextel Cup Amateur of the Year in 2004. He fabricated the Chase in 2006 and 2009.
This is the aforementioned acrylic arrangement Scott Speed's No. 82 had in 2010.
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Mark Martin will mostly be benumbed the Hendrick Motorsports' GoDaddy.com No. 5 afresh this year, but Quaker State has hopped on to sponsor four Sprint Cup races.
Martin has appear in additional in the Cup alternation bristles times and has 40 wins to his credit.
He'll be 53 aback replaced by Kasey Kahne in 2012, but don't calculation him out—he still affairs on racing.
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David Ragan's No. 6 UPS Ford got a slight makeover for 2011, brightening up the postal company's brand amber with a band of yellow.
Ragan has been a Roush Fenway disciplinarian aback 2006 and is still attractive for his aboriginal Cup win.
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Australian Marcos Ambrose will booty the caster of the No. 9 Stanley Atramentous and Decker Ford afterwards signing a multi-year accord with Richard Petty Motorsports.
Ambrose fabricated his Cup admission in 2008 and is analytic for his aboriginal win.
Before abutting NASCAR, Ambrose was the Australian V8 Supercar best in 2003 and 2004, and was afterwards voted the best V8 Supercar disciplinarian ever.
By the way, the No. 9 car will additionally action DeWalt as the primary sponsor in a few contest in 2011.
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Last year's second-place finisher, Denny Hamlin, won the best contest of any disciplinarian in 2010: eight.
All four of Hamlin's FedEx cars (Express, Freight, Ground and Office) will accomplish an according cardinal of appearances in 2011 and accept an updated, faster and meaner attending accent by the afire blaze advancing off the grill. Nice.
In aloof bristles abounding years with Joe Gibbs Racing, Danny Hamlin has accumulated 16 wins, was the 2006 Amateur of the Year and has fabricated the Chase every year. Wow. Attending out for No. 11 in '11.
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Tony Stewart's new atramentous and white Mobil 1 Chevy is attractive sleek. The constructed motor oil is active on for 11 contest in 2011.
Smoke has fabricated the Chase every year aback its birth (2004) and was the Winston Cup Amateur of the Year in 1999.
He won it all for Joe Gibbs Antagonism in the archetypal No. 20 Home Depot in 2002 and 2005, but confused on to anatomy Stewart Haas Antagonism in 2008, actual loyal to Chevrolet afterwards JGR confused to Toyota.
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Michael Waltrip's aftermost chase abaft the caster will be this year's Daytona 500, the 10th ceremony of his aboriginal win there and the afterlife of Dale Earnhardt.
Waltrip will be benumbed in the No. 15 NAPA car, the aforementioned cardinal he collection on that abhorrent day. It will be corrective atramentous in account of the legend.
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Following a aloft acrylic arrangement trend in 2011, Greg Biffle's No. 16 3M Ford will be badder and blacker.
Biffle has fabricated the Chase the aftermost three years with Roush Fenway Racing.
In his best year, 2005, he accomplished additional to Tony Stewart.
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Greg Biffle's Roush Fenway assistant Matt Kenseth will get abaft the caster of the Crown Royal No. 17 Ford for the additional year.
Kenseth's 2011 Fusion is not abundant altered than aftermost year's, but both the amethyst and atramentous cars' detailings accept become added "wavy."
In 2000, Matt Kenseth won Amateur of the Year.
In 2003, he was the aftermost disciplinarian to win the Winston Cup. He was in the archetypal DeWalt atramentous and chicken Ford.
In 2009, he won the Daytona 500.
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Kyle Busch's Snickers ride goes dejected in 2011. He'll drive it in at atomic two contest this season.
The adolescent Busch has won 15 contest in the aftermost three years for Joe Gibbs Racing. He's fabricated the Chase four of his six abounding seasons and absent the postseason by one atom in 2009.
In 2005, he was the Nextel Cup Amateur of the Year.
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A bang from the contempo past. The archetypal all-orange Home Depot No. 20 allotment as a capital scheme—in the easily of 2009 Sprint Cup Amateur of the Year, Joey Logano.
In his two abounding years, Logano placed 20th and 16th. Will he accomplish the Chase this year for Joe Gibbs?
He's got one win: Loudon in 2009.
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Kurt Busch moves from Penske Racing's No. 2 car (now Brad Keselowski) to the No. 22.
Sponsor Pennzoil has begin a new home with Busch and Penske afterwards acid ties with Childress and Kevin Harvick, and a hardly adapted acrylic scheme, activity with red flares off the headlights and forth the sides.
Big brother Busch won it all for Roush in 2004.
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For the aboriginal time in Jeff Gordon's illustrious career, DuPont will not be the primary sponsor. Instead, Drive to End Hunger, and this acrylic scheme, will adroitness the Hendrick Motorsports No. 24 for 22 contest in 2011. DtEH will additionally be the capital sponsor in 2012 and 2013.
The DuPont car will still be about though, for at atomic 14 contest in '11.
Gordon was the 1993 Amateur of the Year and has 378 top 10's, 82 wins and four championships: 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2001.
He's won the Daytona 500 three times.
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Paul Menard splits from Richard Petty to assurance up with Richard Childress Racing, area he'll be through 2013. Sponsor Menard's, of course, all-overs over too.
So does Peak Antifreeze, with a nice new hood.
Menard is still attractive for his aboriginal Sprint Cup win.
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Oh yeah. You accept to adulation the all atramentous Budweiser No. 29 with the red trim.
Kevin Harvick came on able for Richard Childress Antagonism in 2010—finishing third, aloof 41 credibility abaft champ Jimmie Johnson.
He's fabricated the Chase two times afore that and was the 2001 Amateur of the Year. Surprisingly, though, Harvick alone has 14 career victories—one of them the 2007 Daytona 500.
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The change is small, but Clint Bowyer's No. 33 Chevy looks a little acknowledgment in 2011, acknowledgment to concealment in the chat "FUEL," which was abrupt white aftermost season.
He's got aloof four wins in bristles abounding years for Richard Childress Racing, but an absorbing 79 top 10's too.
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Ryan Newman keeps the aforementioned sponsors as aftermost year, including Tornados and Haas Automation. The U.S. Army No. 39 is spruced up a bit this year with the actualization college aloft the auto and aback end.
After spending all of his career with Penske (mostly in the Alltel No. 12), Newman confused to Stewart Haas Antagonism in 2009.
He was the 2002 Winston Cup Amateur of the Year and won the Daytona 500 in 2008.
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Martin Truex, Jr. is agitation a sleeker No. 56 for Michael Waltrip Racing. Check out those candied gold flares advancing off the front-bumper and forth the sides.
Truex had a able year in 2007, aback he won his aboriginal and alone race, and fabricated the Chase (finishing 11th). Aback then, he has struggled.
Truex's ancestor additionally collection the No. 56.
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Steve Wallace will accomplish his amateur admission in the Sprint Cup alternation at Daytona, active his father's (Rusty Wallace Racing) No. 77. At this time, no added contest are appointed for the 23 year old.
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Brian Vickers is attractive to acknowledgment full-time in 2011 afterwards a medically-abbreviated 2010 division (blood clots were begin in Vickers' legs and about his lungs).
His candied Red Bull Antagonism No. 83 is decked out in all argent this year.
In 2009, Vickers fabricated the Chase for the alone time in his eight-year career.
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Carl Edwards' Scotts No. 99 Ford has a added automated actualization for 2011.
In six abounding seasons, Edwards has 18 wins and fabricated the Chase all six times for either Roush or Roush Fenway Racing.
