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Joey Logano brought the #20 Joe Gibbs Racing team to victory lane for the 2nd time in 2010 by winning the Meijer 300 last Saturday night at Kentucky Speedway.  In the process Logano also made Nationwide Series history by being the first driver to win 3 consecutive races from the pole at the same track.

Check out this great story on Joe Gibbs  by Dustin Long of The Virginian-Pilot.  Click on the link below to read the full article.

http://hamptonroads.com/2010/06/joe-gibbs-preaching-plan

Denny Hamlin led the #20 Joe Gibbs Racing team to it’s first win in the 2010 season.  Hamlin led a race high 111 laps from the pole position.  Hamlin also helped guide JGR to a one-two finish with teammate Kyle Busch coming home second.  The win also scored #20 crew chief Kevin Kidd his first win with Joe Gibbs Racing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series after taking over for Dave Rogers.

Don’t miss out on the racing action this summer!

Pizza Ranch is giving away 10 ticket packages (4 tickets per package) to the Pizza Ranch 100 – Star Mazda Series race at Iowa Speedway on Saturday, June 19, 2010!

Be one of the first 10 people to send us an email at prracing@pizzaranch.com with the subject line reading Pizza Ranch 100.  Your email must include the following items in the body to qualify for the ticket giveaway:  your name, your e-mail address and your home address.

If you are one of the first 10 to respond, you will be going racing at Iowa Speedway!

Please visit www.iowaspeedway.com for detailed schedule information for the Pizza Ranch 100-Star Mazda Series Race.

Good Luck!

It’s getting more exciting every day in Pizza Ranch Racing land.  The JGR team had another great week winning both the Sprint Cup & Nationwide Series down in Texas.  The #20 team also had a great week winning the pole and coming home in 2nd place in the Nationwide Series.

Latest updates…

1) We are just days away from unveiling the #20 Pizza Ranch Show Car Tour Dates/Locations.

2) #20 Pizza Ranch Racing/Matt D. Merchandise will also be available at participating Pizza Ranch locations in early Summer.  We will be selling officially licensed #20 hats, t-shirts, decals and 1/24th diecast cars.  And if you can’t get the gear at your local ranch we plan to make it available to you via a new online merchandise store.

3) And to thank you for continuing to visit www.pizzaranchracing.com we are going to be rolling out a new Pizza Ranch Racing giveaway promotion via this website before anywhere else in the next week… so please come back.

Thanks to our great guests and fans!

It’s only 5 races into the 2010 the NASCAR Nationwide season and the No. 20 team has been running well. Although the No. 20 team has yet to go to victory lane there have been some early results for No. 20 fans to be excited about: 2 poles; 2 races with most laps led; 3 top 5 finishes; tied for 5th in owners points (5 races in).

The amazing thing about racing is that despite having the best car and driver there are so many other variables that can determine how you finish the race.  I guess that’s what makes NASCAR so interesting to watch… “there are so many ways to win.”  Go 20 go!!!

Want to know what the life of  Pizza Ranch’s NASCAR driver Matt DiBenedetto is like?  Become a follower of Matt’s Twitter page.  Go check it out and sign up at: http://twitter.com/mattdracing

Matt DiBenedetto came out to the Midwest this week for a look behind-the-scenes at Pizza Ranch.  As part of the visit Matt visited Pizza Ranch’s Restaurant Support Center to meet with company officials and franchisees to discuss racing and the year ahead.  Matt also got the full Pizza Ranch experience from taking the Pizza Ranch menu for a test drive to making his own pizza.  Matt said that the Cheesy Ranch Stix were incredible and the “Bronco” pizza was his favorite.

You can drive... but can you make a pizza Matt?

Add the toppings.

Ready for the oven.

Matt with the OC Ranchers.

Kidd replaces Rogers at Joe Gibbs Racing

HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — Joe Gibbs Racing on Tuesday named Kevin Kidd crew chief for its No. 20 Nationwide Series entry. Kidd replaces Dave Rogers, who was named crew chief for JGR’s No. 18 Cup Series team in November.

Kidd joins JGR after spending the previous four years in engineering with Richard Petty Motorsports. Most recently he has been in the Vehicle Dynamics Department working with the test team. Previously he worked on the No. 19 car of Elliott Sadler as race engineer and has also served as crew chief in the Nationwide series during the 2008 season with driver Chase Miller.

Prior to joining RPM, Kidd served as a race engineer for DEI, and before that he was a car chief at Penske Jasper Racing.

“We’re excited to have Kevin join our team here at JGR,” said J.D. Gibbs, president of Joe Gibbs Racing. “We already have a great team in place and Kevin will provide great leadership to them. His experience and knowledge should help keep us up front where our sponsors deserve to be each week.”

The No. 20 Nationwide Toyota entry for JGR will carry sponsorship from GameStop, Interstate Batteries, SportClips, and Pizza Ranch in 2010. While the driver schedule is still being finalized, Joey Logano, Denny Hamlin and Matt DiBenedetto are expected to share the duties behind the wheel.

NEW YORK, January 20, 2010—Beginning January 24, 2010, NASCAR fans will be given unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to one of the sport’s most successful teams as it prepares for the season-opening Daytona 500. IMG Sports Media will produce for SPEED a series of four one-hour specials featuring Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) and giving fans a unique perspective of what it takes to be ready to perform in the Great American Race.

Shot and produced by IMG Sports Media, “Countdown to the Daytona 500: Joe Gibbs Racing” will document every facet of the organization as the clock ticks down to the green flag at the Daytona 500 on February 14, 2010. At both JGR’s North Carolina headquarters and on the track at Daytona, viewers will be allowed in places they have never been before. The show will provide a behind the scenes look at the shop floor, team meetings and a glimpse into the inner workings of the team.

The show will include interviews with compelling personalities from drivers, team executives, crew chiefs and the unsung heroes behind the scenes as they prepare for the biggest race of the season

Led by NFL Hall of Fame coach, Joe Gibbs, JGR has become one of the most successful teams in the sport and features some of the most talented and exciting young drivers in NASCAR.

“Countdown to the Daytona 500: Joe Gibbs Racing” schedule:

• Episode 1 — 6 p.m. ET on January 24, 2010

• Episode 2 — 9 p.m. ET on January 31, 2010

• Episode 3 — 4 p.m. ET on February 7, 2010

• Episode 4 — 6 p.m. ET on February 13, 2010

About IMG Sports Media
IMG Sports Media, the sports production and distribution division of IMG Worldwide, is the world’s largest independent producer and distributor of sports programming, offering the market an extensive catalogue of more than 18,000 hours of television, online, mobile and radio sports content across 240 categories of sports, including golf, football (soccer), tennis, cricket, cycling, motor sports and mixed martial arts. IMG Sports Media also represents the broadcast rights to many of the world’s premier sporting events and maintains the world’s largest sports archive with more than 250,000 hours of footage. More information is available at www.imgworld.com.