Matt Kenseth
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"Matthew Roy" ""Matt"" "Kenseth" is an American professional stock car racing driver. He drives the No. 20 Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series full-time as well as the No. 20 Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series on a part-time basis.

Kenseth started racing on several short tracks in Wisconsin and won track championships at Madison International Speedway, Slinger Super Speedway and Wisconsin International Raceway. He moved to the ARTGO, American Speed Association, and Hooters Late Model touring series before getting a full-time ride in the NASCAR Busch Series (now Nationwide Series) for his former Wisconsin short track rival Robbie Reiser. After finishing second and third in the standings, he moved up in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series (later NEXTEL Cup Series and now Sprint Cup Series). He won the series' NASCAR Rookie of the Year/Rookie of the Year title in 2000 and the championship in 2003. The International Race of Champions invited Kenseth to race in their IROC XXVIII/2004 season as the reigning champion and he won the season championship. In 2009, he won a 2009 Daytona 500/rain-shortened Daytona 500 and repeated as Daytona 500 winner 2012 Daytona 500/in 2012. He is the father of Ross Kenseth.

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I still think it's a stretch with all of those cars in between. We just have to try to lead some laps and win some races.

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That's hard to do -- to gain points and have a great day, that can happen. But to have five or six people have trouble and have a great day for several weeks in a row is a difficult task.

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It means a lot. This base group has been together for a long time and they do an awesome job every week. Our performance has been better and you knew we had a fast car when we're on the pole and for me to qualify as fast. Our DeWalt Ford was awesome all day. I'm just so thankful to have the opportunity to drive these race cars. It's a lot of fun.

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I think that we could be a threat to challenge everybody with the way everybody is running now.

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I didn't think we had a chance to [make the Chase], but we've run much better and the guys that have been around us in points have had some trouble and maybe haven't run as well the second half of the year and had some things happen to them, too. We're not in it yet; we still have another week to go.

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Last year we made the top 10, I felt like in my heart that we weren't going to run for the championship anyway. I didn't think we were running good enough.

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We've run much better and you know the guys that have been around us in the points have had some trouble and maybe haven't run as well in the second half of the year. But we're not in it, yet. We still have another week to go.

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I think it will perform the same at California. Now that doesn't mean you can't have a flat tire or a bad pit stop or a broken part ... but I do think that we'll go there and be competitive enough to run up front, and, hopefully, challenge for a win.

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This team really has a lot of momentum right now. We've been running well, posting some good finishes and, of course, are coming off of our first win of the season.

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