Ambrose Carries Dollar General's Country Million Sweepstakes on Toyota Camry at Martinsville

MARTINSVILLE, October 22, 2010: This weekend Australian driver Marcos Ambrose has gone country to promote Dollar General’s Country Million Sweepstakes.

Ambrose and the JTG Daugherty Racing team will run a special Dollar General Country Million Sweeps scheme on the No. 47 Toyota Camry in the TUMS Fast Relief 500 at the half-mile Martinsville Speedway oval.

“There are more than 5,000 prizes of cash and gift cards up for grabs, but the best part of the Country Million Sweepstakes is the grand prize, which is a cool $1 million dollars,” Ambrose said. “It’s simple to enter. Visit your local Dollar General store or go to www.dollargeneral.com to find out more.”

While shopping at Dollar General for Country Million participating products, like COTTONELLE® Brand bath tissue or Clorox® Bleach for example, customers not only get a great price, but a chance to win. To enter the Country Million sweepstakes, customers 21 years of age or older and living in Dollar General’s 35-state market area may purchase qualifying products at Dollar General during the sweepstakes period, then visit www.dollargeneral.com or call 1-866-541-0196 to enter required information from their purchase receipts. There is no purchase necessary to enter or win. For complete sweepstakes details and rules, including how to enter without purchase, visit www.dollargeneral.com. The $1 million prize will be awarded as an annuity, payable in equal installments of $50,000 per year for 20 years.

While Ambrose helps spread the word to fans about Country Million Sweepstakes, he is also looking to top his 11th-place finish he delivered earlier this season at the smallest track on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series circuit.

“We have three Cup starts at Martinsville Speedway and our best finish is 11th,” Ambrose said. “We’re hoping for a good run there this weekend.

“Martinsville is a physically demanding track and we’ve got 500 laps of racing on Sunday,” Ambrose continued. “It’s a challenging track, but a couple reasons I enjoy going there is because of the NASCAR fans and the place has so much history.”

Speaking of history, Ambrose made his NASCAR debut in 2006 at Martinsville Speedway with JTG Daugherty Racing in the Camping World Truck Series.

“Martinsville Speedway is very significant to my career and I’m very fond of that place,” Ambrose said. “It’s where I made my first NASCAR start. I remember trying to climb into the race truck on the right side instead of the left. I tried to play it off by acting like I was stretching my leg. It was pretty funny as you can imagine.”

Live coverage of the TUMS Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday, October 24th airs live on ESPN at 1 p.m. ET and MRN radio.