• Chevrolet Silverado clinched sixth NCTS Manufacturers' Championship
• Chevy Bowtie has clinched the Manufacturers' Title in all three NASCAR major touring
• It is the third time Chevy has won all three in the same year
• Silverado has 10 wins in 2005 NCTS competition
• Dennis Setzer, No. 46 Chevrolet Silverado, has four NCTS victories this season - Michigan, Milwaukee, Kentucky and IRP
• Sits second in the 2005 NCTS championship chase, 58 points out of the lead
• 2002 NCTS champion Mike Bliss makes his fourth appearance in the No. 16 Chevy Trucks Silverado
• Has five previous Homestead starts with one pole and two top-five finishes
• Ron Hornaday, No 6 GM Goodwrench Silverado, has one victory thus far in 2005 - Atlanta (March)
• Two-time NCTS champion has one win, three top-five and five top-10 finishes in five previous NCTS starts at Homestead
• David Starr, No. 75 Spears Manufacturing Silverado has two top-five and three top-10 finishes in three previous starts at Homestead
• Kyle Busch and the No. 15 Billy Ballew Motorsports team are looking to capture their fourth win of the season in first NCTS start at Homestead

The final event of the 2005 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season kicks off Thursday at Homestead-Miami Speedway.  Rolling in to the southern Florida track, the NCTS has competed on 21 different tracks in 18 states - from Florida to California and Arizona to New Hampshire.

Dennis Setzer, No 46 Chevrolet Silverado, sits 58 points out of the points lead in second position contending for his first-ever NCTS championship.  Coming off a solid fifth-place finish at Phoenix International Raceway, Setzer and his Morgan Dollar Motorsports team know they are facing a challenge but after overcoming an early race spin and staging a great come-through-the-pack run to the front, Setzer knows anything is possible.

"Our team still has a shot at the championship and really all we can do is try and run as well as we can," Setzer stated. "To go forward in the standings our Silverado team must run well in the race, lead laps, and gain as many points as we can.  That is the only thing that we have control over.  Everyone knows that anything can really happen in the race to Ted or myself, but the one truck (#1 MOPAR truck) ran poorly at Texas and that's the last mile-and-a-half track we ran at.  If they were to run like that again, and we run top-three then we could catch them."

"It's hard to believe that we are going into the final race at Homestead already," said Dayne Pierantoni, GM Racing Silverado program manager. "We still have a shot at the Drivers Championship with Dennis Setzer but he certainly has his work cut out for him this week.  I've learned though that in this series you just never know until the checker falls."

"Our Silverado's have had a great season earning the Manufacturer's title and winning 10 races.  I am really proud of our Chevrolet teams.  We have had wins from 5 different trucks, which says a lot about the strength of our teams.  I know each of them would like one more win so we will go on to Homestead and see what happens."

Three Silverado drivers currently occupy spots in the top-10 in the championship standings with Setzer. Ron Hornaday, No. GM Goodwrench Silverado is fourth in the standings.  David Starr, No. 75 Spears Manufacturing Silverado is seventh and Matt Crafton, No. 88 Menards Silverado is ninth in the order.

There have been no repeat NCTS winners at Miami-Homestead Speedway. In the nine previous truck races at the 1.5 mile track, there have been five first-time victories scored.

Since the inaugural NCTS event at Homestead in 1996, the configuration of the track has been re-worked on two different occasions. The most significant change was the first re-construction that took it from a flat quad oval, similar in shape to Indianapolis Motor Speedway with short straights between corners, to a slightly banked oval with continuous corners, eliminating the straights between turns.  In the most recent revamp, the corners were widened and graduated banking added to create more room for side-by-side racing.