COMBOS FORD MAKES SEASON DEBUT AT POCONO THIS WEEKEND

CHARLOTTE, NC (July 31, 2007) – The NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series heads to Pocono Raceway this weekend for the Pennsylvania 500 in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. This weekend the #88 team will be running the bright orange Combos® Ford Fusion for the first time this season instead of their traditional Snickers Ford paint scheme. The Pennsylvania 500 will mark the second race at Pocono for the season. Ricky Rudd and his Combos racing team hope that this trip will allow them to complete an entire race since the previous visit in June was a shortened race due to a rain-filled weekend.

• Quoting Combos Driver, Ricky Rudd:

How are you feeling about heading back to Pocono for the second time this season?

“I always like racing at Pocono because it’s always just a really fun track and I’ve been lucky enough to have had a lot of good races there as well. When we were there in June earlier this season we had a really great car but we weren’t able to see how good of a car it was due to the race being shortened for rain. It was really unfortunate because there was a point where we were running up in the top-twenty but the rain really never allowed us to run the race we wanted to. This weekend we have our Combos Ford paint scheme making its debut and hopefully the weather will cooperate this time.”

• NOTES OF INTEREST:

· Combos® is the “Official Cheese-Filled Snack” of NASCAR and an associate sponsor on the #88 and #38 cars for the 2007 season. This is the first of two races Rudd will run the Combos Ford this year (Pocono and Martinsville)

* Chris Hill, Shock and Spring Specialist on the #88 crew, is a graduate of Wyomissing High School in nearby Reading, PA where he played football and was a member of the county championship team in 1985 

* Rudd has 54 starts at Pocono, which is the most all-time starts of all NEXTEL Cup Series drivers 

* Rudd has an average starting position of 13.1, and an average finish of 17.4 at Pocono

* Rudd has completed 9,297 of 10,614 laps at Pocono (87.6 percent) and has led 203 laps 

* Rudd’s best start at Pocono was from the pole position which he accomplished in June of 2001 

* Rudd’s has one victory at Pocono which occurred in the same race he started from the pole (June 2001)

• ABOUT MARS US:

Mars US is the United States food, snack and pet care operations of Mars, Incorporated, one of the world's leading food manufacturers. With more than $7 billion in annual sales in the U.S., the combined food, snack and pet care segments are a symbol of excellence for quality brands. Headquartered in Hackettstown, New Jersey, Mars US employs more than 9,000 associates in the United States, with 52 facilities nationwide. The company owns some of the world's favorite brands, including M&M'S® Brand, SNICKERS® Brand, UNCLE BEN'S® Brand, PEDIGREE® Brand Food for Dogs, and WHISKAS® Brand Food for Cats.

• CHASSIS #79

Chassis #79 is the car the #88 Combos Racing team will be running this weekend for the Pennsylvania 500. This is the same chassis the team ran at Chicago for the USG Sheetrock 400 as well as the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte where they had their best finish of the 2007 season with a seventh place finish.