Ron Hornaday Jr. Named 2009 Camping World Truck Series Champion!
CPRT | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Copart, Inc. (NASDAQ: CPRT), a leading online vehicle auction, is proud
to announce that Ron Hornaday Jr. has been named the 2009 NASCAR Camping
World Truck Series Champion! Hornaday raced for Copart five times during
his championship season and went to Victory Lane once wearing Copart
blue.
"Congratulations to Ron Hornaday for a fantastic season!" said Copart
President Jay Adair. "Copart is proud to be part of his amazing year on
the track. Ron has been a great representative for our company this
year, and a great champion."
Hornaday clinched the title in Phoenix Nov. 13 after coming in fourth.
Hornaday has a total of 3,817 points for the season, with Matt Crafton
second with 3,602 points. However, with only one race to go in Homestead
Nov. 20 and only 195 possible points per race, Crafton will not be able
to catch Hornaday -- making Hornaday the winner. Todd Bodine, who Copart
sponsored for 11 races this season, is fourth in the standings going to
Homestead.
"It takes a lot of people to accomplish something like this, all these
team guys and everyone back at the shop," said Hornaday. "I just want to
thank everyone who has been a part of making this happen this year ...
(including) Copart ... It is unbelievable. This is a lot of fun."
Hornaday, 51, is the oldest champion in NASCAR history and the first
driver in Truck Series history to win four titles. He also won in 1996,
1998 and 2007. He is also only the second driver to clinch the Truck
Series championship before the season finale (Greg Biffle was the first
in 2000).
This season, Hornaday also broke a record by being the first driver to
ever win five consecutive races in the truck series. He's only the third
driver to ever do so in any of NASCAR's three national touring series.
Hornaday also won the Copart Challenge of Champions this year, a contest
between him and Bodine to see who could rack up the most driver points
while wearing a Copart suit over a series of races.
This is the first year Copart has been a sponsor in NASCAR, and the
company has taken advantage of the sport to get its name out to NASCAR
fans as a great place to find vehicles. Copart has enhanced its website
to make it easier to search for and view vehicles offered at www.copart.com.
Copart sells more than 1 million cars per year and has more than 50,000
vehicles each day to choose from including classics, early and late
model cars, trucks, SUVs, motorcycles, boats, snowmobiles, jet skis and
recreational vehicles. Copart sells vehicles in an online auction, in
which people bid against each other to get a great deal. The highest
bidder wins the auction.
"We like to say at Copart that winning is awesome -- and Ron proved just
that!" said Adair.
For more information about Copart, visit www.copart.com.
For more information about Ron Hornaday visit www.KevinHarvickInc.com.
Fans can also get all the latest Copart Racing news at www.facebook.com/copartracing
or at www.twitter.com/copartracing.
About Copart
Copart, founded in 1982, provides vehicle sellers with a full range of
remarketing services to process and sell salvage and clean title
vehicles to dealers, dismantlers, rebuilders, exporters and, in some
states, to end users. Copart remarkets the vehicles through Internet
sales utilizing its patented VB(2) technology. Copart sells
vehicles on behalf of insurance companies, banks, finance companies,
fleet operators, dealers, car dealerships, the general public and
others. The company currently operates 147 facilities in the United
States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Salvage vehicles are either
damaged vehicles deemed a total loss for insurance or business purposes
or are recovered stolen vehicles for which an insurance settlement with
the vehicle owner has already been made. For more information, or to
become a member, visit www.copart.com.
Cautionary Language Regarding
Forward-looking statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of federal securities laws, including statements regarding our
expectations with respect to our sponsorship involvement with Ron
Hornaday Jr. and Kevin Harvick, Inc. In particular, we can provide no
assurance that our racing sponsorships as described in this press
release will result in an increase in our brand awareness, customer
base, sales volumes, or revenues. These forward-looking statements are
subject to certain risks, trends and uncertainties that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those projected or implied by
our statements and comments. For a more complete discussion of the risks
that could affect our business, please review the "management's
discussion and analysis" and the other risks identified in Copart's
latest Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and
Current Reports on Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. We encourage investors to review these disclosures
carefully. We do not undertake to update any forward-looking statement
that may be made from time to time on our behalf.
SOURCE: Copart, Inc.
Copart, Inc.
Marla J. Pugh, Communications Manager, 707-639-5185
Marla.Pugh@Copart.com
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