CONCORD, N.C. -- Having previously won both points races in a single season at Lowe's Motor Speedway, and having already won both the non-points Sprint Cup All-Star race and the Coca-Cola 600 last May at the track, Kasey Kahne already has his name etched on a couple of elite lists.

But now he would like to start his own.

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I think it would be neat because no one has ever done it. The list that has won the All-Star [race] and the 600 is pretty short. To be on a list of my own for doing anything at such a great racetrack as Lowe's would really be something.

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-- KASEY KAHNE

Kahne could comprise a List of One if he captures this Saturday's Bank of America 500 at LMS to pull off an unprecedented sweep of the three events at the track in a single season. He's already one of only seven drivers who have won both points races at LMS in the same season -- having accomplished that feat in 2006. The others on that list are an impressive lot: Fred Lorenzen, Bobby Allison, David Pearson, Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt and Jimmie Johnson.

Only Johnson has done it twice, when he won four LMS points events in a row from May of 2004 through October of 2005. But Kahne wants more than to become just the second driver to accomplish that. He wants to be the first to win all three LMS events in the same season.

"I think it would be neat because no one has ever done it," Kahne said. "The list that has won the All-Star [race] and the 600 is pretty short. To be on that list is really exciting, and really is probably the coolest list I've ever been on as a racecar driver.

"To be on a list of my own for doing anything at such a great racetrack as Lowe's would really be something."

On the surface, it looks as if the odds are heavily stacked against Kahne pulling off the final leg of the hat trick. He was seventh in points as late as Aug. 3 at Pocono, where he finished seventh. In the nine races since then, he has registered only one top-10 and dropped eight spots in the point standings to 14th.

The joy of late May and early June, when Kahne captured the All-Star Race and the 600 at LMS and followed that up with another victory June 8 at Pocono, has long since faded.

"This is a great track for us. We always seem to run really well here, and we're looking forward to it," Kahne said. "We need a good track, a place where we've run well before and have the confidence that we can do it again. We've struggled a bit in the last few weeks. It'd be nice to get things turned around and have a really nice weekend." (Continued)