KEY MOTORSPORTS TAPS LATE MODEL ACE CLAY ROGERS TO DRIVE
THE #40 CHEVROLET IN KANSAS CITY & MANSFIELD TRUCK RACES

MOORESVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA (April 10, 2007) – Key Motorsports has named 2006 Hooters Pro Cup Series champion Clay Rogers to drive its primary #40 Chevrolet Silverado in the upcoming NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races at the Kansas and Mansfield (OH) Motorsports Speedways.

After an initial 4-race deal with veteran Mike Bliss, team owner Curtis W. Key, Sr. plans on using the services of a variety of drivers in the 2007 season’s remaining 21 races beginning with the 27-year-old Rogers in the April 28 O’Reilly Auto Parts 250 in Kansas City. Rogers will also steer the #40 machine on May 26 in Mansfield.

Rogers has seen action in the NCTS before, running a half dozen races in 2005 for the defunct Glynn Motorsports operation. He recorded a season’s best fourth place finish in New Hampshire and was eighth in Texas, finishing all six races and completing all but two of the 974 possible laps in those events.

Rogers also competed in the NASCAR Busch Series on a limited-race basis in 2001 and 2005 with a career-best finish in these cars of 12th in Memphis in his last of eight starts in 2001 driving for the team then owned by NASCAR Nextel Cup Series champion Matt Kenseth.

“I am really excited about getting back to NASCAR competition,” said Rogers, who in 2006 ran away with the Southern Division and overall USAR Hooters Pro Cup Late Model Series titles. Clay, a life-long North Carolina resident who was born in Concord and now lives in Mooresville, earned three wins, four second place finishes and one third place verdict in just 12 Southern Division starts to win the crown by a whopping 181 points.

Rogers also won once in four Northern Division starts and then capped off the brilliant campaign in the 6-race Championship Series at the end of the season that featured the best racers from the two Divisions. Rogers won three of these races and also posted one runner-up finish in one of the most dominant performances ever turned in by an overall champion.

“I tested for Key Motorsports in Daytona and know that the team has some good equipment, and with Barry (crew chief Dodson) calling the shots, I know that we will be competitive at both Kansas and Mansfield- two tracks that I really like,” Rogers said. “I hope that we will come away with some good performances that could help me get some more opportunities with the team and the 40 truck for other races this season,” Rogers added.

Rogers finished 25th and qualified 18TH in his only Kansas start in the NCTS in 2005. At Mansfield, Rogers has never run at that track with the trucks but has been a buzz saw on the quaint and very competitive half-mile oval. In his championship run last year, Rogers started on the pole and finished second despite leading the most laps in a Hooters Pro Cup Northern Division race in Mansfield and then followed up that performance with a victory in the Championship Series event there.

“Clayton did a good job testing for us in Daytona back in February, and he had actually been on our radar screen for sometime before that,” said Key, who started the process of using late model standouts last season when he hired 2005 Hooters Pro Cup champ Shane Huffman to drive in four races.

“If Clay shows us the ability to run consistently and can stay on top of the wheel, there are other races on the schedule that we can use him,” Key added.

Key is to make an announcement as to his choice of driver for the race at the Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte on May 18 shortly and is looking at his options for the other races in the seven consecutive