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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (July 22, 2014) — As the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup™ picture comes further into focus, NASCAR® announced today that Chase Grid™ Live Sponsored by Toyota and Sprint will make its debut in downtown Chicago on September 10-11. The free outdoor fan fest located on North Michigan Avenue, will culminate with a two-hour live show featuring all 16 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers, just days before the momentous Challenger Round debuts at Chicagoland Speedway.
"There’s no better way to introduce our new Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup format than by inviting our fans — the most loyal in sports — to be a part of the celebration," said Steve Phelps, NASCAR chief marketing officer. "We are fortunate to have partnered with two world-class brands in Toyota and Sprint to provide an unforgettable fan experience as we embark on this significant moment for our sport."
In conjunction with today’s announcement, fans can now visit www.NASCAR.com/ChaseGridLive to enter the Chase Grid™ Live Sweepstakes. The Grand Prize package includes an all-inclusive trip to Chicago for a VIP experience at Chase Grid Live, two VIP access to all three national series races at Chicagoland Speedway, a ride in the Toyota Camry Grand Marshal car before the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, and $1,000 spending money. Fans can enter the Chase Grid Live sweepstakes through August 29.
"Toyota is proud to once again partner with NASCAR and Sprint in Chicago for this annual celebration of the Sprint Cup Series championship contenders," said Ed Laukes, vice president of marketing, performance and guest experience, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. "With this season’s new Chase format and 16 worthy competitors vying for the championship trophy, this is an event Chicagoans and NASCAR fans will certainly want to attend. Being from Chicago, I know it’s a great venue and knowing NASCAR it will definitely be a must-see event."
Throughout the two-day fan fest, ESPN will feature live segments with many of the 16 drivers competing in the Challenger Round and various other NASCAR personalities making appearances on-site. Fans in attendance will be treated to custom content that will be featured on Sprint Vision, a high definition 18 x 32.4 foot screen; Toyota Camry NASCAR Sprint Cup show cars; and a special in-show tribute by NASCAR and Toyota to the nation’s servicemen and women.
For the fourth-consecutive year the NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup begins at Chicagoland Speedway. For tickets to the September 12-14 race weekend, visit www.ChicagolandSpeedway.com or call 1-888-629-RACE (7223). Single-day tickets are available.
The first race for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup from Chicagoland Speedway will air live on ESPN at 2 p.m. ET on Sunday, September 14. The race will also be broadcast on the WatchESPN app, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, with additional coverage on NASCAR.com.
Defending Brickyard winner might be waiting for another special moment
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Lost in a season brimming with news about multi-race winners, breakthrough stars and surprising struggles, Ryan Newman has methodically and rather quietly put himself in contention for a second consecutive Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup postseason berth.
It’s a far cry from the headline-making path to the Chase he experienced last year.
Newman was at the center of attention for several newsworthy reasons in 2013 and much of it wasn’t his doing — from good friend Tony Stewart not renewing his contract at Stewart-Haas Racing to NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France putting Newman in the Chase after a controversial outcome at Richmond International Raceway initially cost him a place in the postseason.
But there was a highlight in the middle of that strange summer run that was every bit Newman’s work — a hugely popular win from the Coors Light Pole position in the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
After dramatically winning the pole for that race — as the final car to make a qualifying lap no less — the quick-witted Indiana native smiled and joked that he’d just "waited for a special moment" to provide his storybook moment.
Late the next afternoon, the crowd in the grandstands on either side of Indianapolis’ famed front stretch was on its feet — the cheers audible even over the roar of the cars’ engines — as Newman took the checkered flag.
It was a big moment in a place where that’s saying a lot, and the significance was not lost on Stewart, who acknowledged afterward that his friend had endured a couple months of emotional "extremes."
Interestingly, throughout the period of uncertainty Newman faced last year, he remained upbeat and calm — his well-known sense of humor serving him well, and the 2008 Daytona 500 winner’s equally well-known ability behind the wheel serving him best of all.
It was something legendary team owner Richard Childress had long recognized in Newman, and now only a few months into their partnership, Newman is on pace to reward Childress’ faith.
It’s just been a lot more workmanlike than showman-like this season, and Newman is probably fine with that.
He is coming off two top-five finishes in the last three races in the Richard Childress Racing No. 31 Caterpillar Chevrolet SS, with a season-best third coming last month at Kentucky.
Although he’s led only 10 laps in 19 races, Newman is one of only three drivers ranked in the top 10 of the current Sprint Cup Series standings without a DNF.
He’s ranked seventh in overall points, and when the standings are configured to reflect the current Chase field, Newman is 13th — still safely inside the 16-driver cutoff. He’s 25 points ahead of 14th-place Clint Bowyer and nearly 50 points ahead of the 16th-place driver, Sunoco Rookie of the Year contender Kyle Larson.
If Newman were to defend his Brickyard title this weekend and score that all-important victory — he would jump well inside the top 10 in the Chase rankings. Of the five drivers with one win this season, Newman has more points than all but championship leader Jeff Gordon.
And he has victories on three (Indy, Pocono and Michigan) of the remaining seven venues that will determine the 16-driver Chase field.
"I think those places can be special for us," Newman said. "Ultimately, we try and win at all the races, but this sport is so competitive and it’s difficult to get to Victory Lane and even tougher to get there multiple times.
"This Caterpillar team just needs to stay focused and keep doing what we are doing. Kentucky was big for us to be able to get that ice-breaker of a top-five out of the way. You really can’t expect to win a race by running 11th, 10th and seventh. But when you are in the top three, you are proving that you have a chance. I believe that’s the direction this team is headed."
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High line dominated inaugural event, but this year could be different
Drivers and fans alike felt plenty of energy in the atmosphere surrounding the inaugural NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event at Eldora Speedway. What the drivers felt to a greater degree was the inherent tension in running a race with so much uncertainty.
Truck teams unlocked some of the mystery of racing on dirt during last year’s first running, but for their return visit Wednesday night, many are expecting at least a fair share of the unknown in the second annual 1-800-CarCash Mudsummer Classic (9 p.m. ET, FOX Sports 1).
"It’s going to be wild, crazy, wrecking," said Jeb Burton, who finished 18th at Eldora last year and ranks 11th in series standings this season. "… I just wish points weren’t involved because so many things can happen. Hopefully we can have a good run there."
With the dicey nature of big, lumbering trucks on narrow tires, drivers — especially those with little dirt-track experience — tiptoed early on to run the first 54 laps without a caution period during last year’s debut event. It wasn’t without obligatory short-track scrapes and bumps along the way, but for the most part the race was cleanly run until the intensity picked up in the closing laps.
This year, some drivers aren’t so sure there will be a repeat.
"I called this a year ago after the race. I said now that everybody’s got one of these races under their belt, I’m scared to think of how brave they’re going to be this time going back," said Johnny Sauter, a dirt-track newbie at Eldora last season and Burton’s teammate at ThorSport Racing. "I think setups will have evolved a lot, I think obviously everybody’s got a lot better idea of what they needed or what they should’ve tried last year. … The racer in me, forget everything else, I just think about some of the moves that I saw and what some of the other competitors saw when they went home and rewatched the race, just how brave they’re going to be."
When drivers call up the year-old footage, they’ll be reminded of how the high line became the preferred groove as race day progressed. The majority of drivers rode the cushion, making frequent contact with their trucks’ right-rear fenders against the outside wall, so much so that most trucks showed signs of damage — cosmetic or more — before the main event ever went green.
Ryan Blaney, son of Eldora master Dave Blaney and the 15th-place finisher last year, said that while he was looking forward to getting his Brad Keselowski Racing-owned truck dirty again, he was hopeful more racing grooves would open up at the Western Ohio half-mile. This spring, speedway owner Tony Stewart said his staff removed some of the banking from the outer edge of the racing surface, blending it into the middle of the track in hopes of creating a second line and potentially a third.
"So unlike a pavement track that you can’t make any changes to it, but a dirt track like that, we have that opportunity to try to tune the race track and make it better and more competitive," Stewart said. "So we did do that, and that was something that right after the event, after getting the first one done, we were able to look at that and say maybe we can tweak the race track and make a difference. So we’ll see if those changes work."
Some teams hope to remove some of the uncertainty with recent tests at non-NASCAR dirt tracks. Kyle Larson, John Hunter Nemechek and Kyle Busch Motorsports drivers Darrell Wallace Jr. and Erik Jones were among those taking their trucks to the half-mile clay of Wythe Raceway in Rural Retreat, Virginia, to prepare in the weeks leading up to Eldora.
"I’d say I made about 200 laps and got more and more comfortable as we went along, but could’ve probably used about 200 more," said the 18-year-old Jones, the series’ most recent winner who will be making his first career start on dirt.
Much like the equalizing superspeedway events at Daytona and Talladega, the close-quarters racing and the fickle nature of Eldora’s unfamiliar surface have the potential to produce turmoil in bunches. It’s why drivers still consider the Mudsummer Classic a wild-card event on the 22-race schedule.
"We’re still going to be cautious," said Timothy Peters, who ranks seventh in the series standings entering Wednesday night’s race. "It was fun for the fans. We finished sixth and still had to re-do our whole truck. That’s probably going to be the norm going back into it, just seeing how we can keep our equipment safe for the longest, if that makes sense. We’re still going to be cautious, but it’s still an educated guess any way you look at it."
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Owner/’proud father’ jokes his job is to ‘get in (employees) way’ ahead of race
Last year’s experience in hosting NASCAR’s first national series race on dirt with a full-time staff numbering in the single digits qualified as an eye-opener for Eldora Speedway owner Tony Stewart. Even though the three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champ has the benefit of playing host once before, he says it doesn’t make the second time around a breeze.
For all the effort and the hard work from his capable employees, Stewart says his own role is clearly defined.
"My job is to show up and worry and get in their way," Stewart joked Monday, deftly handling NASCAR’s weekly teleconference as he drove through his boyhood stomping grounds of Rushville, Indiana, on the way to the half-mile track in Western Ohio. "So I’m a couple hours from there now, and I’ll get there and be a pain in their butt when I get there. I’ll act normal, I’m sure."
Stewart and company will welcome the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series back to the historic bullring Wednesday for the second annual 1-800-CarCash Mudsummer Classic (9 p.m. ET, FOX Sports 1), the 10th of 22 races this season, and still the only national series event that veers off the more conventional paved surfaces.
The novelty of racing on dirt was just part of what made the inaugural race a rousing success. Perhaps a larger factor was the connection fans made with stock-car racing’s roots before the so-called modern era. Whatever the reason, it’s what had the track’s patrons yelling their thank-yous to Stewart from behind the catch fencing last year, long after Austin Dillon had hoisted the golden shovel as the first Eldora winner.
Though he purchased the track from legendary owner Earl Baltes in late 2004 and is credited with planting the seed for the dirt-track racing concept with NASCAR’s brass, Stewart insists that he’s simply carrying on Eldora’s tradition of hosting headline-grabbing, big-money events for sprint cars and late models alike.
"The success of Eldora isn’t at all due to what I’ve done with it, it’s due to what Earl and Berniece Baltes had done for the first 50 years of the race track," Stewart said. "He was always a promoter that was able to take ‑‑ he was willing to take — big risks and big gambles and promote big events. He didn’t promote races; he promoted big events. Basically, all we’ve had to do was follow that blueprint and that vision that Earl has always had, and that is something that’s been important to us from day one. We’ve tried to run the racetrack the way he would want to run it and he would want us to run it."
As proof, Stewart said he still consults with the 93-year-old Baltes on a regular basis.
"He’s still as big a part of Eldora as anybody. It’s one of those places that’s always been successful because of the way he ran it. I think a lot of promoters across the country, if they’d had the opportunity to be around him very much, would realize that blueprint for success."
For now, the promotion and planning remain a balancing act. The inaugural race required several one-time expenditures and improvements to bring the rural facility up to the standards mandatory for initially hosting a NASCAR national series race.
While those plans didn’t need repeating this year, it didn’t make the task at hand any less daunting.
"Anybody that thinks that putting on a single NASCAR event is easy, let’s just open the gates," Stewart said. "People think you start working I think a week ahead of time to get ready for stuff like this, and it’s been a very large, eye‑opening experience for me to see what the Eddie Gossages and … everybody at (track ownership groups) ISC and SMI and everything has to do to put on an event each week. It takes months and months of work, and so many details."
With NASCAR’s traveling circus about to descend on his Field of Dreams, Stewart says his prime concerns are the same as any track owner — weather and making sure the event goes off without a hitch. Ticket sales have been brisk, with just under 1,000 reserved seats remaining and a lawn area available for Wednesday’s walk-up crowds.
Thus far, ticket-buyers have come from 45 states, five Canadian provinces, Australia, Great Britain and Sweden to partake in the Mudsummer Classic’s second running. When Stewart isn’t worrying or, as he puts it, getting in the way, he’s able to enjoy watching another big Eldora event come together much in the way Baltes did before him.
"It’s about as close to being a proud father as I can imagine being."
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NASCAR Chairman and CEO: ‘the more people we’ve heard from, the better the result’
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NASCAR will continue to solicit and listen to many different opinions in the garage area, NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France said, even if some of the sport’s top car owners decide to speak with one voice.
"The last thing we would want to do is not talk to everybody so we can understand where the truth lies, or the best that we can tell," France said Monday in an interview with SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. "So that’s why one voice — it’s just a bad idea."
The interview was among France’s first public comments on the Race Team Alliance, the coalition of nine Sprint Cup Series teams that announced its formation earlier this month. According to the RTA, the organization’s purpose is to "create an open forum for teams to explore areas of common interest and to work collaboratively on initiatives to help preserve, promote and grow the sport of stock car racing."
Rob Kauffman, co-owner of Michael Waltrip Racing, is chairman of the RTA. Sprint Cup organizations participating are Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, Hendrick Motorsports, Joe Gibbs Racing, Michael Waltrip Racing, Richard Childress Racing, Richard Petty Motorsports, Roush Fenway Racing, Stewart-Haas Racing and Team Penske.
As far as France is concerned, the presence of the alliance does not change the way NASCAR does business — which is to solicit multiple opinions.
"We didn’t think it was necessary, and we thought that the benefits that they would arrive at with this association would be much smaller than they do. But they’re smart guys, and so they may figure out some things that we’re not aware of. … The one thing that is central to NASCAR, though, is when you hear one voice — that would probably the worst thing that we could ever do, is to listen to one voice, even if it were a consensus voice," France said.
"In every decision that we’ve ever made that’s important, the more input, the more people we’ve heard from, the better the result. And so that will never change in the business model of NASCAR, because the ideas come from all over the place, and that’s the strength that we have. Our communications have never been better with the (manufacturers), the car companies, the team owners, drivers, and the like. We’ve just got to keep building on that and getting the best outcome that we can."
France said NASCAR will continue to deal directly with individual owners. Toward that end, he said he spoke with Rick Hendrick last week and even talked recently with Kauffman.
"That’s how we’ve historically done it. Look, they’re smart guys, there are some benefits they see in forming the RTA. We respect that. These are some of the brightest guys in business. If they think there are some real benefits, then we may not agree, but we’ll certainly respect them," France told Sirius XM.
"They’re smart guys, they’re entitled to approach their business in certain ways, and we’re going to respect that," he added. "But, we’re going to go down the road of dealing with all the team owners. Not most of them, not the big ones, all of them. And that’s the best outcome that we can get."
France cited as an example the development of the Generation-6 Sprint Cup car, which was the result of an industry-wide effort. Its predecessor, the vehicle introduced in 2007 and formerly known as the Car of Tomorrow, did not succeed in part because not enough people were involved, he added.
"When we don’t get the input from every team owner, not a consensus among the big guys … we always miss something," he said. "We now know that better than ever. Look at the original car that I said was a mistake on my part; not because of any one thing, but because we didn’t communicate back in ’07. … And you roll the clock forward, and you look at how we collaborated with the car manufacturers and all the team owners. We got a much better outcome from doing that, and we know that. If we ever drift away from that, we need to get right back to it. So all voices need to be heard, and that’s exactly what we need to do."
— France said the movement toward a new Sprint Cup engine package is being accelerated, "but it’s a ways off," he added. "… The cost will be a huge deciding factor on where we end up and how fast we can go. But, we have got to lower the cost to supply engines. It’s too high, and it’s not where we need to be. So we are hard at work to try and accelerate that for the future."
— France also added that the 2015 Sprint Cup schedule is on track to be released in September, and again hinted that changes are afoot. "It’s not going to be a dramatic change, but there will be some things that are a little different," he said. "But that’s not unusual. We do that. You come back to moving dates around, we don’t do a lot of it, but we do a little of it from time to time, and this will be one of those moments."
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Get the complete lineup of NASCAR programming for the week
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All times ET
Monday, July 21
5 p.m., NASCAR America: Scan All 43 Special, NBC Sports Network
5 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FOX Sports 1
5 p.m., 2008 Allstate 400 at the Brickyard (re-air), ESPN Classic
5:30 p.m., NASCAR’s The List: Iconic Cars, NBC Sports Network
7 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub (re-air), FOX Sports 2
8 p.m., Empty Cup: Quest for the 1992 NASCAR Championship (re-air), FOX Sports 2
4 a.m. (Tue.), Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Race at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (re-air), FOX Sports 1
Tuesday, July 22
7 a.m., 2009 Brickyard 400 (re-air), ESPN Classic
9 a.m., 2012 Brickyard 400 (re-air), ESPN Classic
10 a.m., NASCAR K&N Pro Series Race at New Hampshire (re-air), FOX Sports 1
11 a.m., 2010 Brickyard 400 (re-air), ESPN Classic
1 p.m., 2011 Brickyard 400 (re-air), ESPN Classic
3 p.m., 1998 Brickyard 400 (re-air) ESPN Classic
5 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FOX Sports 1
5 p.m., NASCAR America Future Stars (re-air), NBC Sports Network
5 p.m., 1994 Brickyard 400 (re-air), ESPN Classic
5:30 p.m., NASCAR’s The List: Tracks, NBC Sports Network
6:30 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub (re-air), FOX Sports 2
7:30 p.m., NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Race at New Hampshire (re-air), FOX Sports 2
Wednesday, July 23
7 a.m., 1995 Brickyard 400 (re-air), ESPN Classic
10 a.m., NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Practice, FOX Sports 1
11 a.m., NASCAR Live, FOX Sports 1
11:30 a.m., NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Final Practice, FOX Sports 1
1 p.m., 2008 Allstate 400 at the Brickyard (re-air), ESPN Classic
3 p.m., 2009 Brickyard 400 (re-air), ESPN Classic
5 p.m., NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Keystone Light Pole Qualifying, FOX Sports 1
6 p.m., NASCAR America, NBC Sports Network
6 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FOX Sports 1
7 p.m., NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Qualifying Races at Eldora, FOX Sports 1
8:30 p.m., NCWTS SetUp, FOX Sports 1
9 p.m., NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Race at Eldora, FOX Sports 1
1 a.m. (Thu.), NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Race at Eldora (re-air), FOX Sports 2
3 a.m. (Thu.), NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Race at Eldora (re-air), FOX Sports 1
5 a.m. (Thu.), The 600: History of NASCAR’s Toughest Race (re-air), FOX Sports 1
Thursday, July 24
7 a.m., 2010 Brickyard 400 (re-air), ESPN Classic
9 a.m., 2011 Brickyard 400 (re-air), ESPN Classic
11 a.m., 1998 Brickyard 400 (re-air) ESPN Classic
1 p.m., 1994 Brickyard 400 (re-air), ESPN Classic
3 p.m., 1995 Brickyard 400 (re-air), ESPN Classic
5 p.m., NASCAR America, NBC Sports Network
5 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub, FOX Sports 1
5 p.m., 2007 Allstate 400 at the Brickyard (re-air), ESPN Classic
6:30 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub (re-air), FOX Sports 2
Friday, July 25
8 a.m., The 10 Greatest Drivers in NASCAR History (re-air), FOX Sports 1
8:30 a.m., NASCAR Nationwide Series Practice, FOX Sports 1
10 a.m., NASCAR Live, FOX Sports 1
10:30 a.m., NASCAR Nationwide Series Final Practice, FOX Sports 1
11:30 a.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Practice, FOX Sports 1
1 p.m., NASCAR Race Hub Special, FOX Sports 1
1 p.m., 2010 Brickyard 400 (re-air), ESPN Classic
2 p.m., The 10 NASCAR’s Greatest Races (re-air), FOX Sports 1
2:30 p.m., NASCAR’s The List: Dale Earnhardt Sr. Moments, NBC Sports Network
2:30 p.m., NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Race at Eldora (re-air), FOX Sports 1
3 p.m., 2011 Brickyard 400 (re-air), ESPN Classic
5 p.m., NASCAR America, NBC Sports Network
5:30 p.m., TUDOR United SportsCar Championship Race at Indianapolis, FOX Sports 1
8:30 p.m., The 10 NASCAR’s Greatest Finishes (re-air), FOX Sports 1
3 a.m. (Sat.), NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Practice (re-air), FOX Sports 1
4:30 a.m. (Sat.), NASCAR Nationwide Series Practice (re-air), FOX Sports 1
Saturday, July 26
9 a.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Final Practice, ESPN2
11 a.m., NASCAR K&N Pro Series Race at State Line, FOX Sports 1
Noon, NASCAR Nationwide Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying, FOX Sports 1
2 p.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying, ESPN2
4 p.m., NNS Countdown, ESPN
4:30 p.m., NASCAR Nationwide Series Race at Indianapolis
Sunday, July 20
9 a.m., NASCAR K&N Pro Series Race at Columbus, FOX Sports 1
10 a.m., NASCAR RaceDay, FOX Sports 1
Noon, NSCS Countdown, ESPN
1 p.m., NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Race at Indianapolis, ESPN
10:30 p.m., NASCAR Victory Lane, FOX Sports 1
1 a.m. (Mon.), NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Race at Indianapolis (re-air), ESPN2
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Breaking down driver statistics, history
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INDIANAPOLIS-SPECIFIC STATISTICS
Greg Biffle (No. 16 NESN 30th Anniversary Ford)
· Three top fives, six top 10s
· Average finish of 13.2
· Average Running Position of 11.8, fourth-best
· Driver Rating of 94.6, eighth-best
· 58 Fastest Laps Run, sixth-most
· 472 Green Flag Passes, 12th-most
· Average Green Flag Speed of 169.929 mph, seventh-fastest
· 1,027 Laps in the Top 15 (71.3%), seventh-most
· 205 Quality Passes (passes of cars in the top 15 under green), 10th-most
Clint Bowyer (No. 15 5-Hour Energy Toyota)
· Two top fives, two top 10s
· Average finish of 13.2
· Average Running Position of 14.8, 10th-best
· Driver Rating of 84.6, 11th-best
· 487 Green Flag Passes, 10th-most
· 727 Laps in the Top 15 (56.8%), 11th-most
· 172 Quality Passes, 12th-most
Kyle Busch (No. 18 Interstate Batteries Toyota)
· Two top fives, seven top 10s
· Average finish of 11.6
· Average Running Position of 12.8, eighth-best
· Driver Rating of 96.5, fifth-best
· 48 Fastest Laps Run, seventh-most
· 502 Green Flag Passes, fifth-most
· Average Green Flag Speed of 170.047 mph, fifth-fastest
· 1,044 Laps in the Top 15 (72.5%), fifth-most
· 265 Quality Passes, fourth-most
Carl Edwards (No. 99 Fastenal Ford)
· One top five, three top 10s
· Average finish of 13.2
· Driver Rating of 84.4, 12th-best
· 44 Fastest Laps Run, ninth-most
· 519 Green Flag Passes, fourth-most
· 721 Laps in the Top 15 (50.1%), 12th-most
· 234 Quality Passes, sixth-most
Jeff Gordon (No. 24 Drive to End Hunger Chevrolet)
· Four wins, 11 top fives, 16 top 10s; three poles
· Average finish of 8.8
· Average Running Position of 11.5, third-best
· Driver Rating of 102.0, third-best
· 105 Fastest Laps Run, third-most
· 497 Green Flag Passes, sixth-most
· Average Green Flag Speed of 170.505 mph, second-fastest
· Series-high 1,105 Laps in the Top 15 (76.7%)
· 284 Quality Passes, second-most
Denny Hamlin (No. 11 FedEx Freight Toyota)
· One top five, three top 10s; one pole
· Average finish of 16.9
· Driver Rating of 88.3, 10th-best
· 41 Fastest Laps Run, 10th-most
· Average Green Flag Speed of 170.004 mph, sixth-fastest
· 738 Laps in the Top 15 (57.7%), 10th-most
· 190 Quality Passes, 11th-most
Kevin Harvick (No. 4 Budweiser Chevrolet)
· One win, four top fives, seven top 10s; one pole
· Average finish of 10.9
· Average Running Position of 14.4, ninth-best
· Driver Rating of 90.2, ninth-best
· 904 Laps in the Top 15 (62.8%), eighth-most
Jimmie Johnson (No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolet)
· Four wins, five top fives, six top 10s; one pole
· Average finish of 15.6
· Series-best Average Running Position of 10.8
· Series-best Driver Rating of 109.8
· Series-high 173 Fastest Laps Run
· 1,057 Laps in the Top 15 (73.4%), fourth-most
Kasey Kahne (No. 5 Great Clips/Shark Week Chevrolet)
· Three top fives, five top 10s
· Average finish of 14.2
· Average Running Position of 12.8, seventh-best
· Driver Rating of 96.4, sixth-best
· 78 Fastest Laps Run, fifth-most
· 1,085 Laps in the Top 15 (75.3%), third-most
· 271 Quality Passes, third-most
Matt Kenseth (No. 20 Dollar General Toyota)
· Six top fives, eight top 10s
· Average finish of 15.1
· Average Running Position of 12.4, fifth-best
· Driver Rating of 95.8, seventh-best
· 1,100 Laps in the Top 15 (76.4%), second-most
· 247 Quality Passes, fifth-most
Juan Pablo Montoya (No. 12 SKF Ford)
· One top five, two top 10s; one pole
· Average finish of 20.3
· Average Running Position of 12.5, sixth-best
· Driver Rating of 96.7, fourth-best
· 106 Fastest Laps Run, second-most
Tony Stewart (No. 14 Mobil 1 Chevrolet)
· Two wins, seven top fives, 11 top 10s; one pole
· Average finish of 7.9
· Average Running Position of 11.1, second-best
· Driver Rating of 104.1, second-best
· Series-high 571 Green Flag Passes
· 1,037 Laps in the Top 15 (72.0%), sixth-most
· Series-high 292 Quality Passes
Indianapolis Motor Speedway Data
Season Race #: 20 of 36 (07-27-14)
Track Size: 2.5-miles
Banking/Turns 1 & 2: 9 degrees
Banking/Turns 3 & 4: 9 degrees
Banking/Straights: 0 degrees
Frontstretch Length: 3,330 feet
Backstretch Length: 3,300 feet
Race Length: 160 laps / 400 miles
Top 10 Driver Ratings at Indianapolis
Jimmie Johnson …………………….. 109.8
Tony Stewart …………………………. 104.1
Jeff Gordon …………………………… 102.0
Juan Pablo Montoya ………………… 96.7
Kyle Busch ……………………………… 96.5
Kasey Kahne …………………………… 96.4
Matt Kenseth …………………………… 95.8
Greg Biffle ………………………………. 94.6
Kevin Harvick ………………………….. 90.2
Denny Hamlin ………………………….. 88.3
Note: Driver Ratings compiled from 2005-2013 races (nine total) among active drivers at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Qualifying/Race Data
2013 pole winner: Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 187.531 mph, 47.992 secs. 07-26-13
2013 race winner: Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 153.485 mph, (02:36:22), 07-28-13
Track qualifying record: Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 187.531 mph, 47.992 secs. 07-26-13
Track race record: Bobby Labonte, Pontiac, 155.912 mph, (02:33:56), 08-05-00
At Indianapolis Motor Speedway:
History
· Indianapolis Motor Speedway has existed since 1909, and is the original "Speedway," the first racing facility to incorporate the word into its name.
· With a permanent seating capacity for more than 250,000-plus people and infield seating that raises capacity to an approximate 400,000, it is the largest and highest-capacity sporting facility in history.
· The first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was August 6, 1994 – won by Jeff Gordon.
Notebook
· There have been 20 NASCAR Sprint Cup races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway; one per year from 1994 through 2013.
· 132 drivers have competed in at least one NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway; 104 in more than one.
· Four drivers have competed in all 20 races at Indianapolis: Jeff Burton, Jeff Gordon, Bobby Labonte and Mark Martin.
· Rick Mast won the inaugural Coors Light pole at Indianapolis in 1994 with a speed of 172.414 mph.
· 17 drivers have Coors Light poles at Indianapolis, led by Jeff Gordon with three.
· Two drivers have won consecutive Coors Light poles at Indianapolis: Jeff Gordon (1995 and 1996) and Ernie Irvan (1997 and 1998).
· Youngest Indianapolis Coors Light pole winner: Reed Sorenson (07/29/2007 – 21 years, 5 months, 24 days).
· Oldest Indianapolis Coors Light pole winner: Mark Martin (07/26/2009 – 50 years, 6 months, 17 days).
· 12 different drivers have won at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, led by Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson with four each.
· Jimmie Johnson is the only driver to have posted consecutive wins at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (2008 and 2009).
· Youngest Indianapolis winner: Jeff Gordon (08/06/1994 – 23 years, 0 months, 2 days).
· Oldest Indianapolis winner: Bill Elliott (08/04/2002 – 50 years, 8 months, 11 days).
· Hendrick Motorsports leads the series in wins at Indianapolis in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series with eight; followed by Richard Childress Racing and Joe Gibbs Racing with three each.
· Four different manufacturers have won at Indianapolis, led by Chevrolet with 15 victories; Ford has three, Dodge and Pontiac each have one.
· Chevrolet has won the last 11 consecutive NSCS races at Indianapolis.
· 15 of the 20 winners were either past, future or reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champions.
· Eight Brickyard race winners went on to win that season’s NASCAR Sprint Cup championship.
· Only three of the 20 (15 percent) NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at Indianapolis have been won from the Coors Light pole: Kevin Harvick (2003), Jimmie Johnson (2008) and Ryan Newman (2013).
· The pole and third starting positions are the most proficient starting positions in the field, each producing three winners — more than any other starting positions at Indianapolis.
· Four of the 20 (20 percent) NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at Indianapolis have been won from the front row: three from the pole and once from second-place.
· 12 of the 20 (60 percent) NASCAR Sprint Cup races at Indianapolis have been won from a top-10 starting position.
· Three of the 20 (15%) NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at Indianapolis have been won from a starting position outside the top 20.
· The deepest in the field that a race winner has started at Indianapolis was 27th, by Jeff Gordon in 2001.
· NASCAR Hall of Famer Rusty Wallace leads the series in runner-up finishes at Indianapolis with three; followed Bobby Labonte, Mark Martin and Matt Kenseth with two each.
· Jeff Gordon leads the series in top-five finishes at Indianapolis with 11; followed by Tony Stewart with seven.
· Jeff Gordon leads the series in top-10 finishes at Indianapolis with 15; followed by Tony Stewart and Mark Martin with 11 each.
· Juan Pablo Montoya leads the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in average starting position at Indianapolis with a 6.429.
· Tony Stewart leads in average finishing position at Indianapolis with a 7.933.
· Six of the seven active NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race winners at Indianapolis Motor Speedway participated in at least one or more races before visiting Victory Lane. Jeff Gordon won the Brickyard 400 in his first start at Indianapolis.
· Ryan Newman competed at Indianapolis Motor Speedway 12 times before winning in 2013; the longest span of any the seven active NASCAR Sprint Cup Series winners.
· Joe Nemechek leads the series among active drivers with the most NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Indianapolis without visiting Victory Lane at 18.
· Since the advent of electronic scoring the closest margin of victory (MOV) in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was the August 3, 1997 race won by Ricky Rudd over Bobby Labonte with a MOV of 0.183 second.
· Only one of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races have resulted with a green-white-checkered finish at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Scheduled No. of Laps/Actual No. of Laps): 2004 (160/161).
· None of the 20 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at Indianapolis Motor Speedway have been shortened due to weather conditions.
· Qualifying has not been cancelled due to weather conditions in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
· Reed Sorenson (07/29/07) is the only driver to post his first career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coors Light pole at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
· Paul Menard (07/31/11) is the only driver to have posted his first career series win at Indianapolis.
· Jeff Gordon leads all active drivers in laps led at Indianapolis with 488 laps led in 20 starts.
· Danica Patrick became the first female driver to compete in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2013; she started 33rd and finished 30th.
· Shawna Robinson (08/05/01) is the only other female driver to attempt to compete in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Indianapolis, but she failed to qualify for the event.
NASCAR in Indiana
There have been 22 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races among three tracks in Indiana:
|
Track |
City |
NSCS |
|
Indianapolis Motor Speedway |
Speedway |
20 |
|
Funks Speedway |
Winchester |
1 |
|
Playland Park Speedway |
South Bend |
1 |
79 drivers in NASCAR national series history have their home state recorded as Indiana. Eight of 79 have posted a win in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
|
Driver |
NSCS |
NNS |
NCWTS |
|
Tony Stewart |
48 |
11 |
2 |
|
Ryan Newman |
17 |
7 |
1 |
|
Darel Dieringer |
7 |
0 |
0 |
|
Charlie Glotzbach |
4 |
0 |
0 |
|
John Andretti |
2 |
0 |
0 |
|
Earl Balmer |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Larry Frank |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Dick Passwater |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Tony Raines |
0 |
0 |
4 |
|
Kenny Irwin Jr |
0 |
0 |
2 |
Chase Outlook Following New Hampshire (Race #19 of 36):
|
Pos. |
Driver |
Wins |
Points |
Bonus Pts. |
|
1 |
Brad Keselowski |
3 |
634 |
9 |
|
2 |
Jimmie Johnson |
3 |
598 |
9 |
|
3 |
Dale Earnhardt Jr. |
2 |
658 |
6 |
|
4 |
Carl Edwards |
2 |
574 |
6 |
|
5 |
Joey Logano |
2 |
551 |
6 |
|
6 |
Kevin Harvick |
2 |
528 |
6 |
|
7 |
Jeff Gordon |
1 |
670 |
3 |
|
8 |
Kyle Busch |
1 |
567 |
3 |
|
9 |
Denny Hamlin |
1 |
530 |
3 |
|
10 |
Aric Almirola |
1 |
473 |
3 |
|
11 |
Kurt Busch |
1 |
440 |
3 |
|
12 |
Matt Kenseth |
0 |
621 |
0 |
|
13 |
Ryan Newman |
0 |
573 |
0 |
|
14 |
Clint Bowyer |
0 |
548 |
0 |
|
15 |
Paul Menard |
0 |
541 |
0 |
|
16 |
Kyle Larson |
0 |
524 |
0 |
Outside Looking In:
|
Pos. 17 |
Driver Austin Dillon |
Wins 0 |
Points 524 |
Bonus Pts. 0 |
|
18 |
Greg Biffle |
0 |
519 |
0 |
|
19 |
Kasey Kahne |
0 |
515 |
0 |
|
20 |
Brian Vickers |
0 |
507 |
0 |
|
21 |
Tony Stewart |
0 |
502 |
0 |
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Two-time Brickyard 400 winner has sights set on playoff berth
His prized Eldora Speedway hosting a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on Wednesday and Tony Stewart set to go for a third Brickyard 400 win at his beloved Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday, the popular three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champ is hoping to finish out the week as strongly as it began — with a huge grin and a trophy.
"Well everybody loves good ‘juju,”’ Stewart acknowledged Monday during a teleconference with a laugh and a nod to his first victory in his first sprint car start this past weekend in Michigan — coming less than a year after severely breaking his right leg in a sprint car racing accident.
"It was more than just a good way to start the week,” Stewart continued. "It was a confidence boost for me. Dealing with when you haven’t won, and you haven’t been necessarily a contender to be in the top two or three each week and having those opportunities to win races this year, you start questioning what is it in the equation that you’re missing. It’s easy as a driver.
"We’re all finicky when it comes to running bad and you sit there and start questioning if you’re doing something wrong or if you’re not adapting to the car, like I said, with the new rules package and everything, you start questioning what is it. Is it something that you’re doing or not doing as a driver?
"To be able to go out and win on Friday night and ran third on Saturday night, and to have two good runs like that in a car that I haven’t been in for almost a full year now, that was a huge confidence boost and made me feel like, hey, maybe we’ll just meet and find something else."
The most pressing "something else" is a spot in the 16-driver Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. Stewart will arrive in Indy ranked 19th in the standings and still looking for his first victory, his odds-on ticket into the playoffs. He’s had only two top-10s (Dover and New Hampshire) in the No. 14 Mobil 1/Bass Pro Shops Chevy since June began.
And with only a little more than a month to set the postseason field, Stewart said he has to be of flexible mindset. A win would be safest, but he is also in reasonable position to race his way in via points.
And while he’s among a stellar group of surprise non-winners (Matt Kenseth and Kasey Kahne, too), Stewart reiterated that despite his continuing physical therapy — and the trace of a limp his walking still illustrates — he is fine inside the race car.
"It’s a new year, it’s a new car, a new rules package,” Stewart said. "I felt good in the car. There is nothing that’s not felt good from day one. Even when we were at Daytona we felt comfortable in the race car, and there wasn’t anything that was a distraction.
"So mindset‑wise, there is nothing that is different other than just as much of the emphasis is on wins and not points racing, we’re kind of in a position where we’re close to being in that part of it as well where we could get in on points, but a win would solve that. It’s kind of a double‑edged sword right now.
"Do you get yourself in a position where you go for the win and risk if you run second losing that opportunity? Or do you sit there and say, well, I need to have a solid point day because we have the opportunity on the other side of the coin.
"We still have two shots at getting in the Chase, obviously, one being a win and the other being getting in there because of the points position.
So while the popularity of Stewart’s Eldora dirt track has already drawn an A-list of entrants and sold lots of tickets for Wednesday’s 1-800-CAR-CASH Mudsummer’s Classic (9 p.m. ET, FOX Sports 1), Stewart knows he’s got a big task at hand on the famed 2.5-mile Indy oval where he first debuted as an IndyCar driver in 1996.
From the sprint car race in Michigan to Eldora in Ohio to Indianapolis — near his hometown of Columbus, Indiana — this has the potential to be a homecoming Stewart could tangibly use.
Stewart-Haas Racing is the defending winner of the race, as former driver and fellow Hoosier Ryan Newman became a Brickyard winner from the pole position in 2013.
"It is a long week,” Stewart said. "So it’s kind of cool to be back in my stomping grounds and getting ready for a busy week at Eldora. It’s almost like two weeks in one for me. Eldora’s enough to cause you enough stress to last you for the rest of the year, and then going to the Brickyard, that’s a big race for me as well. It’s a lot in one week.”
And then again that’s exactly how Stewart prefers it — the busier the better. Or if a win this week is in the cards at Indy, the more dramatic the better.
"Every driver has a home race,” Stewart said. "Some of the tracks that you go to twice, and Indy is one we get to go to once and this is our trip to it. Like I said, if you said, well, you can only win one race a year, I’m still going to pick a Daytona 500. But if you can’t win Daytona one race a year, I want to win the Brickyard. Minus the fact the way the championship’s done this year.
"It’s a big deal. It’s always big when you come home. It’s always big when you have friends and family that don’t get the opportunity to go see you race anywhere else but can be there and be there in person to watch and experience it with.
"So you’re always going to run well."
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A look at who will be driving in the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis
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| Entry | # | Driver | Owner | Crew chief | Manufacturer | Sponsor |
|
1 |
1 |
Jamie McMurray |
Felix Sabates |
Keith Rodden |
14 Chevrolet |
Cessna |
|
2 |
2 |
Brad Keselowski |
Roger Penske |
Paul Wolfe |
14 Ford |
Miller Lite |
|
3 |
3 |
Austin Dillon |
Richard Childress |
Gil Martin |
14 Chevrolet |
Dow – Mycogen Seeds |
|
4 |
4 |
Kevin Harvick |
Tony Stewart |
Rodney Childers |
14 Chevrolet |
Jimmy John’s |
|
5 |
5 |
Kasey Kahne |
Linda Hendrick |
Kenny Francis |
14 Chevrolet |
Time Warner Cable |
|
6 |
7 |
Michael Annett |
Tommy Baldwin |
Kevin Manion |
14 Chevrolet |
Pilot/Flying J Chevrolet |
|
7 |
9 |
Marcos Ambrose |
Richard Petty |
Drew Blickensderfer |
14 Ford |
STANLEY |
|
8 |
10 |
Danica Patrick |
Tony Stewart |
Tony Gibson |
14 Chevrolet |
GoDaddy |
|
9 |
11 |
Denny Hamlin |
J D Gibbs |
Darian Grubb |
14 Toyota |
FedEx Express |
|
10 |
12 |
Juan Pablo Montoya |
Roger Penske |
Greg Erwin |
14 Ford |
Penske Truck Rental |
|
11 |
13 |
Casey Mears |
Bob Germain |
Bootie Barker III |
14 Chevrolet |
No. 13 GEICO Chevrolet SS |
|
12 |
14 |
Tony Stewart |
Margaret Haas |
Chad Johnston |
14 Chevrolet |
Mobil 1 / Bass Pro Shops |
|
13 |
15 |
Clint Bowyer |
Rob Kauffman |
Brian Pattie |
14 Toyota |
RK Motors Charlotte |
|
14 |
16 |
Greg Biffle |
Jack Roush |
Matt Puccia |
14 Ford |
3M Safety Ford Fusion |
|
15 |
17 |
Ricky Stenhouse Jr |
John Henry |
Michael Kelley |
14 Ford |
EcoPower Oil |
|
16 |
18 |
Kyle Busch |
Joe Gibbs |
Dave Rogers |
14 Toyota |
Snickers |
|
17 |
20 |
Matt Kenseth |
Joe Gibbs |
Jason Ratcliff |
14 Toyota |
Dollar General |
|
18 |
21 |
Trevor Bayne(i) |
Glen Wood |
Donnie Wingo |
14 Ford |
Motorcraft/Quick Lane Tire & Auto Center |
|
19 |
22 |
Joey Logano |
Walter Czarnecki |
Todd Gordon |
14 Ford |
Shell Pennzoil |
|
20 |
23 |
Alex Bowman |
Ron Devine |
Dave Winston |
14 Toyota |
Dr. Pepper Toyota Camry |
|
21 |
24 |
Jeff Gordon |
Rick Hendrick |
Alan Gustafson |
14 Chevrolet |
Axalta |
|
22 |
26 |
Cole Whitt |
Anthony Marlowe |
Randy Cox |
14 Toyota |
Speed Stick Gear Toyota |
|
23 |
27 |
Paul Menard |
Richard Childress |
Slugger Labbe |
14 Chevrolet |
MOEN / MENARDS |
|
24 |
129 |
Matt Crafton(i) |
Robby Benton |
Chris Rice |
14 Toyota |
Toyota Care |
|
25 |
31 |
Ryan Newman |
Richard Childress |
Luke Lambert |
14 Chevrolet |
QUICKEN LOANS |
|
26 |
32 |
Travis Kvapil |
Frank Stoddard Jr |
Ben Leslie |
14 Ford |
Keen Parts/Androzene |
|
27 |
33 |
David Stremme |
Joe Falk |
Mike Hillman Jr |
14 Chevrolet |
Thunder Coal |
|
28 |
34 |
David Ragan |
Bob Jenkins |
Jay Guy |
14 Ford |
MDS |
|
29 |
36 |
Reed Sorenson |
Allan Heinke |
Todd Parrott |
14 Chevrolet |
TBA |
|
30 |
37 |
Bobby Labonte |
Tommy Baldwin |
Tommy Baldwin |
14 Chevrolet |
Accell Construction |
|
31 |
38 |
David Gilliland |
Brad Jenkins |
Frank Kerr |
14 Ford |
Love’s Travel Stops |
|
32 |
40 |
Landon Cassill(i) |
Michael Hillman |
Mark Hillman |
14 Chevrolet |
Carsforsale.com |
|
33 |
41 |
Kurt Busch |
Gene Haas |
Daniel Knost |
14 Chevrolet |
Haas Automation |
|
34 |
42 |
Kyle Larson |
Chip Ganassi |
Chris Heroy |
14 Chevrolet |
Target |
|
35 |
43 |
Aric Almirola |
Richard Petty |
Trent Owens |
14 Ford |
Eckrich |
|
36 |
47 |
A J Allmendinger |
Tad Geschickter |
Brian Burns |
14 Chevrolet |
Kingsford Charcoal |
|
37 |
48 |
Jimmie Johnson |
Jeff Gordon |
Chad Knaus |
14 Chevrolet |
Lowe’s / Kobalt Tools |
|
38 |
51 |
Justin Allgaier |
Harry Scott Jr |
Steve Addington |
14 Chevrolet |
TBD |
|
39 |
55 |
Brian Vickers |
Michael Waltrip |
Billy Scott |
14 Toyota |
Aaron’s Dream Machine |
|
40 |
66 |
Brett Moffitt |
Jay Robinson |
Scott Eggleston |
14 Toyota |
Land Castle Title |
|
41 |
78 |
Martin Truex Jr |
Barney Visser |
Todd Berrier |
14 Chevrolet |
Furniture Row |
|
42 |
83 |
Ryan Truex |
Ron Devine |
Joe Williams |
14 Toyota |
Burger King Toyota |
|
43 |
88 |
Dale Earnhardt Jr |
Rick Hendrick |
Steve Letarte |
14 Chevrolet |
National Guard |
|
44 |
95 |
Michael McDowell |
Bob Leavine |
Wally Rogers |
14 Ford |
K-LOVE Radio |
|
45 |
98 |
Josh Wise |
Mike Curb |
Gene Nead |
14 Chevrolet |
Curb Records/Lee Brice |
|
46 |
99 |
Carl Edwards |
Jack Roush |
James Fennig |
14 Ford |
Fastenal |
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