Reed Sorenson

Birthday: Feb. 5, 1986
Hometown: Peachtree City, Ga.

YEAR-BY-YEAR CUP SERIES RECAP

2008 -- Finished 32nd in series points. ... Finished fifth in Daytona 500. ... Only other top-10 finish was a sixth at New Hampshire's summer event. ... Left Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates to join Richard Petty Motorsports for the 2009 season.

2007 -- Finished 22nd in series points. ... Earned first career pole at Indianapolis. Led the first 16 laps of the race and finished fifth. ... Third-place finish at Atlanta in October was a career high.

2006 -- Finished 24th in series points. ... Season-high fifth-place finish came at Michigan in June. ... Finished 10th at Atlanta in March for first career top-10. ... Started seventh at Dover in September, his highest start of the year. ... Finished the season fourth in rookie of the year standings.

2005 -- Finished 67th in series points. ... Competed in two races for Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (Atlanta and Homestead). ... Top finish was 28th at Homestead.

PREVIOUS RACING HISTORY

Has three Nationwide Series wins in 93 races. Finished in the top 10 in standings in 2005 and 2006. ... Had 21 top-10s in 25 ASA starts in 2002 and 2003. ... Competed in regional quarter midgets and in 1996 set qualifying records at both the East and West Coast National events, winning the national championships in 1997 and earning nine Southeastern championships and setting 15 different track records during his quarter midget tenure. ... Racked up 84 wins, 152 top-five finishes and 168 top-10 finishes in 183 starts in legends cars, five-eighths-scale fiberglass full-fendered versions of the famed NASCAR modifieds.

NOTEWORTHY

After five successful seasons in quarter midgets, Sorenson was crowned the national champion in 1997. ... He became the youngest driver to date to receive rookie of the year honors en route to a fourth-place finish in the 2003 ASA Series standings. ... In 2004, he won his first ARCA event in just his second start at Michigan in July.