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Carl Edwards, like Clint Bowyer, considers Kansas Speedway a home track. The Columbia, Mo., competitor also has yet to win here – his best a second-place finish in 2008. Having failed to qualify for the Chase, Edwards could be this week’s most likely “spoiler.” Edwards has posted six consecutive top-10 finishes (of eight) at the track and has led seven of the last 10 races. Roush Fenway Racing put all three of its Fords in the top 10 of May’s Kansas race.

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Carl Edwards wins at Watkins Glen in first 2012 Nationwide start

Aug. 11, 2012

By Reid Spencer
NASCAR Wire Service

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Carl Edwards is batting 1.000.

Grabbing the lead from Brad Keselowski after a restart with 10 laps left in Saturday’s Zippo 200 at Watkins Glen International, Edwards held on to win his first NASCAR Nationwide Series start of the season.

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CONCORD, N.C. (August 1, 2012) – Carl Edwards will return to the NASCAR Nationwide Series next weekend at Watkins Glen International to race the No. 60 Subway Ford Mustang. It will be Edwards’ first appearance in the series this season after running full time the past seven years. Subway, which also sponsors Edwards in the Sprint Cup Series, will be the primary sponsor at The Glen.

“I’m very excited about running the No. 60 Subway Ford Mustang in my first Nationwide Series race of the year,” Edwards said. “It’s great to have Subway on board and it will be fun to be back in the 60 car. The Nationwide race at Watkins Glen is almost like a Sprint Cup event because of the length of the race. It’s a very long and tough race, and there is a lot of competition with all the road course specialists. There are always a lot of really fast guys there, so it’s a race that will test the equipment and our strategy. The guys are working very hard on the car and it would be big to win a road course race there.”

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Who would have guessed that Carl Edwards would face the real possibility of missing the Chase heading into the waning weeks of July? That’s the situation the No. 2 finisher in last year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup™ finds himself in following a lackluster weekend in Loudon, N.H. Edwards finished 18th – the next to final car on the lead lap – and dropped 46 points out of the top 10. The finish was his third of 18th or worse in the past four races.
How much has the No. 99 Ford team’s performance slumped? Consider that Edwards hasn’t led a lap in his most recent 10 starts. He’s led just twice in 2012 – 206 laps at Richmond where he finished 10th after a late-race restart miscommunication.
Edwards has won races at four of the tracks remaining in the Race to the Chase: Pocono, Michigan, Bristol and Atlanta. His best Indianapolis finish is second in 2008. Edwards’ winless streak grew to 51 races in New Hampshire. He last won at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in March 2011.