LOUDON, N.H. - Now that Richard Petty has found Victory Lane for the first time in nearly 10 years, the legendary driver/car owner wants his team to keep it up.

Kasey Kahne won for Richard Petty Motorsports last week at Sonoma, Calif., and another one of his cars, driven by Reed Sorenson, was fourth-fastest in the final practice session for today's LENOX Tools 301 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Since it rained during qualifying on Friday, the lineup was set by the car owner standings. All four of Petty's cars will start outside the top 12, but the veteran of 200 wins said if they use patience early in the race, all four could be contenders by the end.

"What we're going to have to tell our drivers is that they're going to have to be patient," he said. "Even after practice, they had good times, but they have 20 cars to go through to get to the front and really show what they got. It's going to take a little time just to work your way through the system. The main deal here whether you're starting in the back or up front, is patience. This is a very, very, tight race track and just one little mistake can wipe out three or four cars."

Martin Truex Jr. had the fastest car in the final practice at 128.186 mph. Jimmie Johnson was second-fastest, followed by Greg Biffle in third and Sorenson in fourth.

"We've got a nice top-10 car right now," Sorenson said. "Not getting to qualifying hurt us just because we have to start 27th, so we'll have to use the first 50 laps to get up in the field and chase down as many cars as we can.

"We feel like we have a good enough car to get a top-10 finish and run with the leaders if we can get up there. We don't need to do anything stupid to force our way to the front. Our car is fast. We just need to be patient the first 100 laps or so, make some good calls in the pits and hope to be there in end."

LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK: Kyle Busch still gets the most boos during pre-race introductions, but it doesn't stop fans from buying his merchandise.

His souvenir trailer was busy all day Saturday at New Hampshire with fans buying shirts and hats featuring a new line called Rowdy.

In addition to buying items that promote his sponsors, Busch has items that promote his bad-boy persona. He now is considered one of the top-five drivers in sales in the sport.

"It's been cool to see myself progress and myself transition into one of the sports top-five, I guess," he said. "For me, the way to improve that is to ultimately for me, my thoughts, is to just keep doing what we've been doing and that's to win races out there on the racetrack. And do things that spark the eye of those people and stuff like that."

Busch admitted sales were slow last year when the new Rowdy line hit the market. Now business is brisk.

"This year it's really, really sky-rocketed and really done well," he said. "It seems to be working well and we've come out with a new line of stuff over the winter and over the spring time now that people have grown to like and it's selling."

PIT STOPS: Marcos Ambrose arrived at New Hampshire wearing a bucket hat to support Australian Army serving in Afghanistan. The camouflage helmet is from the Embeds Task Force 633 International Security Force, and the soldiers hoped it would bring the Aussie driver good luck on Sunday ... Tony Stewart, Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon all provided affidavits on behalf of NASCAR as the series defends itself in a lawsuit filed by Jeremy Mayfield. All three said they supported rules that prohibit drivers under the influence to be allowed to compete in racing. "For myself, it was speaking not directly about Jeremy, but in general about the safety of the sport and how I don't want anyone on track under the influence of any substance or under anything," Johnson said. Mayfield was suspended indefinitely after failing two drug tests in May.