Daytona International Speedway

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Update: 6:03pm Eastern – Drivers to their cars at 6:45p, anthem at 6:53p and green flag at 7:13p tonight on FOX!
1 99 Carl Edwards Fastenal Ford
2 16 Greg Biffle 3M Ford
3 14 Tony Stewart Office Depot/Mobil 1 Chevrolet
4 17 Matt Kenseth Best Buy Ford
5 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Diet Mountain Dew/National Guard Chevrolet
6 78 Regan Smith Furniture Row/CSX Play It Safe Chevrolet
7 9 Marcos Ambrose Stanley Ford
8 48 Jimmie Johnson Lowe’s Chevrolet
9 31 Jeff Burton Caterpillar Chevrolet

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10 33 Elliott Sadler(i) General Mills/Kroger Chevrolet

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RACE RECAP | GATORADE DUEL #2

On lap 6 JJ Yeley hit the apron having trouble with his 49 machine

Kenny Wallace lost the draft with 29 laps to go and later had fuel problems on the #09 car

Kurt Busch got busted with speeding on pit road

Transferring into the Daytona 500: Joe Nemechek and Dave Blaney

5 Greg Biffle
4 Elliott Sadler
3 Jimmie Johnson
2 Regan Smith

1 Victory Lane – Greg Biffle led most of this race, which was pretty uneventful until the final lap, but it was teammate Matt Kenseth who took the checkered flag first.

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1 7 17 Matt Kenseth Best Buy Ford
2 18 78 Regan Smith Furniture Row/CSX Play It Safe Chevrolet
3 6 48 Jimmie Johnson Lowe’s Chevrolet
4 16 33 Elliott Sadler(i) General Mills/Kroger Chevrolet
5 1 16 Greg Biffle 3M Ford
6 9 20 Joey Logano The Home Depot Toyota
7 12 18 Kyle Busch M&M’s Brown Toyota
8 3 24 Jeff Gordon Drive to End Hunger Chevrolet
9 8 39 Ryan Newman U.S. ARMY/Quicken Loans Chevrolet
10 10 5 Kasey Kahne Farmers Insurance Chevrolet
11 5 55 Mark Martin Aaron’s Toyota
12 14 36 * Dave Blaney Ollie’s Bargain Outlet Chevrolet
13 4 56 Martin Truex Jr. NAPA Auto Parts Toyota
14 15 51 Kurt Busch Hendrickcars.com Chevrolet
15 24 15 Clint Bowyer 5-hour Energy Toyota
16 19 47 Bobby Labonte Kroger Toyota
17 17 87 * Joe Nemechek(i) AM FM Energy Wood & Pellet Stoves Toyota
18 2 13 Casey Mears GEICO Ford
19 22 23 * Robert Richardson Jr.(i) North Texas Pipe Toyota
20 20 97 * Bill Elliott AM FM Energy Wood & Pellet Stoves Toyota
21 13 09 * Kenny Wallace(i) American Ethanol Toyota
22 11 26 *Tony Raines Front Row Motorsports Ford
23 21 93 David Reutimann Burger King Toyota
24 23 49 * JJ Yeley America Israel Racing Toyota

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Biggest Race Culminates Retro-Fitted Speedweeks

Speedweeks 2012 has gone back to school – old school.
Daytona International Speedway’s signature competition, pack racing, returned with a vengeance during last weekend’s Shootout at Daytona.
The race ended with another Daytona cornerstone, Kyle Busch’s slingshot pass of Tony Stewart at the start-finish line.

It also marked the end of a format. The Shootout returns to its roots in 2013, primarily a battle among Coors Light Pole winners. Carl Edwards, set to start on the pole for Sunday’s 54th Daytona 500, is the first to punch his ticket to next year’s Speedweeks curtain-raiser.

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