IndyCar News

Bryan Clauson to Pilot The No. 40 Target/ Guitar Hero World Tour Dodge at AMS

October 20, 2008

CONCORD, N.C. (October 20, 2008) – The #1 best-selling video game, Guitar Hero®, returns to the track at Atlanta Motor Speedway (AMS) as primary sponsor of Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates’ No. 40 Dodge driven by 19-year-old Bryan Clauson.    

Clauson was scheduled to make his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) debut at Lowe’s Motor Speedway but qualifying was washed out and the No. 40 car was unable to make a qualifying run.

Notes of Interest:

CLAUSON IN CUP: Bryan Clauson will be attempting his debut in the Sprint Cup Series at AMS in the No. 40 Target/Guitar Hero World Tour Dodge.  Clauson—a 19-year-old from Noblesville, Ind.—has competed in the 24 NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) races throughout this 2008 season, driving the No.40 Fastenal Dodge.  To-date, the teen racer has collected one pole, one top-five and two top-10 finishes. 

GUITAR HERO WORLD TOUR:  Guitar Hero World Tour transforms music gaming by expanding Guitar Hero’s signature guitar gameplay into a cooperative band experience that combines the most advanced wireless and wired controllers with new revolutionary online and offline gameplay modes including Band Career and 8-player “Battle of the Bands,” which allows two full bands to compete head-to-head online for the first time ever.

GAME FEATURES: The game features a slick newly redesigned guitar controller, drum kit controller and a microphone, as well as an innovative Music Studio music creator that lets players compose, record, edit and share their own rock ‘n’ roll anthems.

GUITAR HERO BUS: The Guitar Hero consumer bus will be parked in the display area at AMS all weekend for fans to take a sneak peak at the game.  Clauson and Target Driver Reed Sorenson will make an appearance on Sunday to display their music talents prior to the Pep Boys Auto 500.  

CGRFS Quoteboard:
Bryan Clauson, CGRFS Driver:
“It was a little frustrating to have qualifying rained out in Charlotte.  Our crew worked so hard in getting this car ready and I thought they did a great job.  It was disappointing to not get on the track and see what we had.  I feel like we would have been pretty solid.  I can’t wait to get the No. 40 Target/ Guitar Hero World Tour Dodge into the race.  I am confident that we will be able to get a really good run in.”

About Chip Ganassi Racing
With 14 wins in 2008, the team is enjoying its most successful season in history as it continues to add to its tally of 103 trips to victory lane. Chip Ganassi created his own one-car IndyCar team in 1990 and established a partnership with a new sponsor, Target. Today, his teams include two IRL IndyCars, and along with Felix Sabates he has two cars in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, one entry in the NASCAR Nationwide Series and a Daytona Prototype in the world of Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series racing. Ganassi’s IndyCar teams have amassed six Championships and 64 wins since 1994; his NASCAR teams have 12 wins and two Rookie-of-the-Year titles; and the Grand American team has won three Rolex Series Daytona Prototype Championships and are the three-time defending Champions of the Rolex 24 At Daytona. Chip Ganassi Racing operates out of state-of-the-art race shop facilities in Indianapolis, Ind., and Concord, N.C., with a corporate office in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Guitar Hero World Tour © 2008 Activision Publishing, Inc. Guitar Hero and Activision are registered trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc.

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