Copart, Inc. (NASDAQ: CPRT), a leading online vehicle auction, is proud to announce that Ron Hornaday Jr. has been named the 2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Champion! Hornaday raced for Copart five times during his championship season and went to Victory Lane once wearing Copart blue.

“Congratulations to Ron Hornaday for a fantastic season!” said Copart President Jay Adair. “Copart is proud to be part of his amazing year on the track. Ron has been a great representative for our company this year, and a great champion.”

Hornaday clinched the title in Phoenix Nov. 13 after coming in fourth. Hornaday has a total of 3,817 points for the season, with Matt Crafton second with 3,602 points. However, with only one race to go in Homestead Nov. 20 and only 195 possible points per race, Crafton will not be able to catch Hornaday – making Hornaday the winner. Todd Bodine, who Copart sponsored for 11 races this season, is fourth in the standings going to Homestead.

“It takes a lot of people to accomplish something like this, all these team guys and everyone back at the shop,” said Hornaday. “I just want to thank everyone who has been a part of making this happen this year ... (including) Copart ... It is unbelievable. This is a lot of fun.”

Hornaday, 51, is the oldest champion in NASCAR history and the first driver in Truck Series history to win four titles. He also won in 1996, 1998 and 2007. He is also only the second driver to clinch the Truck Series championship before the season finale (Greg Biffle was the first in 2000).

This season, Hornaday also broke a record by being the first driver to ever win five consecutive races in the truck series. He’s only the third driver to ever do so in any of NASCAR’s three national touring series. Hornaday also won the Copart Challenge of Champions this year, a contest between him and Bodine to see who could rack up the most driver points while wearing a Copart suit over a series of races.

This is the first year Copart has been a sponsor in NASCAR, and the company has taken advantage of the sport to get its name out to NASCAR fans as a great place to find vehicles. Copart has enhanced its website to make it easier to search for and view vehicles offered at www.copart.com.

Copart sells more than 1 million cars per year and has more than 50,000 vehicles each day to choose from including classics, early and late model cars, trucks, SUVs, motorcycles, boats, snowmobiles, jet skis and recreational vehicles. Copart sells vehicles in an online auction, in which people bid against each other to get a great deal. The highest bidder wins the auction.

“We like to say at Copart that winning is awesome – and Ron proved just that!” said Adair.

For more information about Copart, visit www.copart.com.

For more information about Ron Hornaday visit www.KevinHarvickInc.com.

Fans can also get all the latest Copart Racing news at www.facebook.com/copartracing or at www.twitter.com/copartracing.

About Copart

Copart, founded in 1982, provides vehicle sellers with a full range of remarketing services to process and sell salvage and clean title vehicles to dealers, dismantlers, rebuilders, exporters and, in some states, to end users. Copart remarkets the vehicles through Internet sales utilizing its patented VB2 technology. Copart sells vehicles on behalf of insurance companies, banks, finance companies, fleet operators, dealers, car dealerships, the general public and others. The company currently operates 147 facilities in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Salvage vehicles are either damaged vehicles deemed a total loss for insurance or business purposes or are recovered stolen vehicles for which an insurance settlement with the vehicle owner has already been made. For more information, or to become a member, visit www.copart.com.

Cautionary Language Regarding Forward-looking statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws, including statements regarding our expectations with respect to our sponsorship involvement with Ron Hornaday Jr. and Kevin Harvick, Inc. In particular, we can provide no assurance that our racing sponsorships as described in this press release will result in an increase in our brand awareness, customer base, sales volumes, or revenues. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks, trends and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or implied by our statements and comments. For a more complete discussion of the risks that could affect our business, please review the “management's discussion and analysis” and the other risks identified in Copart’s latest Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and Current Reports on Form 8-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We encourage investors to review these disclosures carefully. We do not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time on our behalf.

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