ELLIOTT SADLER, No. 19 Richard Petty Motorsports Dodge Charger

Birthdate: April 30, 1975
Hometown: Emporia, Va.
Resides: Emporia, Va.
Hobbies: Golf, deer hunting, basketball, water sports, video games

YEAR-BY-YEAR NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES RECAP
2008 — Finished 24th in series points. … Was a strong sixth in season-opening Daytona 500. … Finished fourth at
Indianapolis.… Best starting position was second at Phoenix spring race.

2007 — Finished 25th in series points.… Finished with two top 10s. … Had his worst series finish since placing 29th in 2000.… Top 10s were a sixth in the Daytona 500 and an eighth at Kansas.

2006 — Finished 22nd in series points. … Finished with one top five, seven top 10s and one pole.… Moved from Robert Yates Racing to Evernham Motorsports prior to race No.23,the Aug.20 event at Michigan International Speedway. … Season-high finish of fourth came in the season-opening Daytona 500.

2005 — Finished 13th in series points. … Captured the pole position four times: Bristol (spring),Indianapolis, and in the
fall at Talladega and Lowe’s Motor Speedway.… Best finish was a second at Bristol in the spring after starting on the pole. … Had 12 top-10 finishes. … Finished second in the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Challenge.

2004 — Finished ninth in series points. … Inaugural Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup participant. … Posted career-best
results in many categories, including wins (two), top-five finishes (eight), top-10 finishes (14). … Began with second-
fastest qualifying time for the Daytona 500,marking his third top-10 start in 11 races at Daytona. … Won the second of two 125-lap qualifying races at Daytona. … Posted two wins, at Texas in April and California in September … Failed to finish only one race, the lowest DNF total of any driver who competed in all 36 races.

2003 — Finished 22nd in series points. … Won career-first pole at Darlington in his fifth race for new team Robert Yates Racing. … Scored five top-10 finishes in first nine races and was 10th in series standings, but dropped to 20th after
three consecutive finishes of 33rd or worse beginning at Richmond in May. … Began season with crew chief Raymond
Fox; Todd Parrott took over in August. … Finished with a career-best nine top 10s,including two top fives.

2002 — Finished 23rd in series points.… Last season with Wood Brothers operation. … Started with a few strong runs, grabbing the runner-up spots in the season-opener Daytona 500 and the spring race at Darlington. … Earned career-best starting spot when he started on the outside row at Texas. … Also had the second-fastest qualifying time for the Coca-Cola 600. … Announced in August he was leaving the team to drive for Robert Yates Racing in the No. 38 Ford.

2001¬ — Finished 20th in series points. … Took the Wood Brothers back to Victory Lane for the first time since 1993 with
a victory at Bristol in March. Win came in 75th series start. … Finished third behind Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Michael Waltrip in Pepsi 400 at Daytona for his only other top-10 finish.

2000 — Finished 29th in series points. … Scored one top-10 finish. … The low point came at Talladega in April when
Sadler failed to qualify. … Best finish was seventh in the night race at Bristol. … Best start was sixth at Darlington in
March.

1999 — Finished 24th in series points. … Finished runner-up to Tony Stewart in the Raybestos Rookie of the Year standings. … Had one top-10 finish, but finished all but two races.

1998 — Made series debut in the Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. … Drove two races for car owner Gary
Bechtel and Diamond Ridge Motorsports. … Also started fourth and finished 20th in the Motegi Coca-Cola 500 exhibition race in Japan for the Wood Brothers.

PREVIOUS RACING HISTORY
Had five wins, five poles and 12 top-five finishes in 76 career NASCAR Nationwide Series starts before moving to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series fulltime in 1999. … Won two NASCAR Nationwide races and finished eighth in 1998. … In his rookie season in 1997, he won the pole for the season-opening event at Daytona. … Won his first NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Nazareth in his 13th start. … Finished his rookie year with four poles, three wins and fifth place in the final standings. … Ran limited NASCAR Nationwide Series schedules in 1996 and 1995. … Crowned track champion at South Boston Speedway in 1995, winning 13 races, including six in a row. … Moved to NASCAR weekly series competition at age 18. … Ran first full season in 1993. … Began racing at age seven in go-karts and won more than 200 races. … Won several karting titles, including the 1983-84 Virginia State Karting Championship.