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MARCOS AMBROSE FAST FACTS
Staff, Friday November 3, 2006.
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Born in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia Marcos Ambrose won two consecutive V8 Supercar Series Championships in Australia in 2003 and 2004 for Ford .
- Ambrose has earned US$233,888 in 20 starts this season
- Drives the No. 20 Ford F-150 for Wood Brothers/JTG Racing in 2006
- Achieved his best result when he finished third at Kansas Speedway on July 1 in only his ninth NASCAR event. Also finished third in Round 16 in Nashville, his 13th NASCAR event
- Ambrose is one of only two NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Raybestos Rookie of the Year contenders to score a top three finish this season
- Ambrose is the first Raybestos Rookie of the Year candidate to earn two top five finishes
- Ambrose is the only Raybestos Rookie to capture WIX Filters Lap Leader of the Race honours in the Craftsman Truck Series this season. Ambrose led twice for 49 laps to claim the honor in the Built Ford Tough 225 in Kentucky
- Became the first Australian to lead laps in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
- Is the first non-American driver to finish in the top five of a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event since Canadian Ron Fellows won on the Watkins Glen road course on 26 June 1999
- Ambrose won his first Budweiser Pole in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at Kentucky Speedway on July 8
- Ambrose is the first non-Amercian driver to win a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series pole since 26 June 1999 when Ron Fellows of Canada qualified first at Watkins Glen International
- This was the first pole for the Wood Brothers/JTG Racing team and the first pole for crew chief Gary Cogswell
- Ambrose has now qualified in the top 10 for seven of his 16 NASCAR starts to date
- scored his third top 10 finish of his rookie season at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
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