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2010 Finish
Finish	Driver	Start	Finish	Driver	Start
1	Ryan Newman	14	6	Matt Kenseth	27
2	Jeff Gordon	10	7	Carl Edwards	9
3	Jimmie Johnson	16	8	Kyle Busch	17
4	Mark Martin	23	9	Clint Bowyer	25
5	Juan Pablo Montoya	7	10	Joey Logano	6

2010 Subway Fresh Fit 500 Facts and Figures
TIME OF RACE: 3 hours, 48 minutes, 14 seconds (600-kilometer race)
AVERAGE SPEED: 99.372 m.p.h.
MARGIN OF VICTORY: 0.130 second
CAUTION FLAGS: 9 for 59 laps
LEAD CHANGES: 20 among 13 drivers
POLE WINNER: AJ Allmendinger (134.675 m.p.h.)

Past Subway Fresh Fit 500 Winners (Starting Position) Car -- Speed

2010 -- Ryan Newman (14th) -- Chevrolet -- 99.372 m.p.h. (600-kilometer race)

2009 -- Mark Martin (1st) -- Chevrolet -- 108.042 m.p.h.

2008 -- Jimmie Johnson (7th) -- Chevrolet -- 103.292 m.p.h.

2007 -- Jeff Gordon (1st) -- Chevrolet -- 107.710 m.p.h.

2006 -- Kevin Harvick (15th) -- Chevrolet -- 107.063 m.p.h.

2005 -- Kurt Busch (2nd) -- Ford -- 102.707 m.p.h.

NOTE: Previously called Subway Fresh 500 (2005-06), Subway Fresh Fit 500

(2007-09). Race changed from 500 kilometers to 600 (2010), and then from

600 kilometers to 500 (2011).

Past Subway Fresh Fit 500 Pole Winners (Finish)

2010 -- AJ Allmendinger -- 15th

2009 -- Mark Martin -- 1st

2008 -- Ryan Newman -- 43rd

2007 -- Jeff Gordon -- 1st

2006 -- Kyle Busch -- 36th

2005 -- Jeff Gordon -- 12th

Last Race Results
RACE: Daytona 500 (February 20th)
SITE: Daytona International Speedway -- Daytona Beach, Florida
MILES: 520
LAPS: 208
WINNER: Trevor Bayne
RUNNER-UP: Carl Edwards
THIRD: David Gilliland
FOURTH: Bobby Labonte
FIFTH: Kurt Busch
POLE WINNER: Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Finished 24th)
TIME OF RACE: 3 hours, 59 minutes, 24 seconds
AVERAGE SPEED: 130.326 m.p.h.
MARGIN OF VICTORY: 0.118 second
CAUTION FLAGS: 16 for 60 laps
LEAD CHANGES: 74 among 22 drivers
LAP LEADERS: Earnhardt Jr. - pole; Ku Busch 1; Harvick 2; Ku Busch 3;
	Allmendinger 4; Harvick 5-8; Allmendinger 9; J. Gordon 10;
	Allmendinger 11-12; Brad Keselowski 13-15; Labonte B. 16-17;
	Menard 18-21; Montoya 22-23; Bowyer 24-28; McMurray 29-36; Menard
	37-39; Keselowski 40-45; Blaney 46-48; T.Labonte 49-50; Ku Busch
	51; Menard 52-53; Bowyer 54-57; Montoya 58-60; Ku Busch 61-65;
	Burton 66-67; Smith 68-72; Bowyer 73-74; Burton 75-77; Earnhardt
	Jr. 78-80; McMurray 81-82; Newman 83-85; Truex Jr. 86-87; Bowyer
	88-90; Ku Busch 91-96; Newman 97; R. Gordon 98-99; Truex Jr. 100;
	McMurray 101; Newman 102-105; R. Gordon 106-110; Ku Busch 111;
	Bowyer 112; Ku Busch 113; Bowyer 114; Ku Busch 115; Truex Jr.
	116-117; Ku Busch 118; Menard 119-120; Ky Busch 121; Truex Jr.
	122; Ky Busch 123; Truex Jr. 124; Ky Busch 125; Truex Jr. 126-128;
	Bowyer 129; Truex Jr. 130; Bowyer 131-140; Truex Jr. 141-146; Ku
	Busch 147; Earnhardt Jr. 148-152; Newman 153-159; Earnhardt Jr.
	160; Newman 161-163; Hamlin 164-170; Newman 171-175; Ragan 176;
	Bowyer 177-178; Newman 179-180; Bowyer 181; Newman 182-192; Bowyer
	193; Smith 194-195; Newman 196; Ragan 197-202; Bayne 203-208.

Subway Fresh Fit 500 Entry List
Car	Driver, Hometown	Car/Name
00	David Reutimann (Zephyrhills, FL)	Toyota/Best Western
1	Jamie McMurray (Joplin, MO)	Chevrolet/Bass Pro Shops
2	Brad Keselowski (Rochester Hills, MI)	Dodge/Miller Lite
4	Kasey Kahne (Enumclaw, WA)	Toyota/Red Bull
5	Mark Martin (Batesville, AR)	Chevrolet/GoDaddy.com
6	David Ragan (Unadilla, GA)	Ford/UPS
7	Robby Gordon (Orange, CA)	Dodge/Speed Energy
09	Bill Elliott (Dawsonville, GA)	Chevrolet/Phoenix Construction
9	Marcos Ambrose (Launceston, Australia)	Ford/Stanley
11	Denny Hamlin (Chesterfield, VA)	Toyota/FedEx Freight
13	Casey Mears (Bakerfield, CA)	Toyota/GEICO
14	Tony Stewart (Columbus, IN)	Chevrolet/Office Depot/Mobil 1
16	Greg Biffle (Vancouver, WA)	Ford/3M
17	Matt Kenseth (Cambridge, WI)	Ford/Crown Royal
18	Kyle Busch (Las Vegas, NV)	Toyota/Combo's
20	Joey Logano (Middletown, CT)	Toyota/Home Depot
21	Trevor Bayne (Knoxville, TN)	Ford/Motorcraft/Quick Lane
22	Kurt Busch (Las Vegas, NV)	Dodge/Shell/Pennzoil
24	Jeff Gordon (Vallejo, CA)	Chevrolet/Drive to End Hunger
27	Paul Menard (Eau Claire, WI)	Chevrolet/Menards
29	Kevin Harvick (Bakersfield, CA)	Chevrolet/Budweiser
31	Jeff Burton (South Boston, VA)	Chevrolet/Caterpillar
32	Mike Skinner (Susanville, CA)	Ford/TBA
33	Clint Bowyer (Emporia, KS)	Chevrolet/Cheerios/Hamb. Helper
34	David Gilliland (Riverside, CA)	Ford/Taco Bell
36	Dave Blaney (Hartford, OH)	Chevrolet/Tommy Baldwin Racing
37	Tony Raines (LaPorte, IN)	Ford/TBA
38	Travis Kvapil (Janesville, WI)	Ford/Long John Silver's
39 *	Ryan Newman (South Bend, IN)	Chevrolet/Tornados
42	Juan Pablo Montoya (Bogota, Colombia)	Chevrolet/Target
43	A.J. Allmendinger (Los Gatos, CA)	Ford/Valvoline
46	J.J. Yeley (Phoenix, AZ)	Chevrolet/Red Line Oil
47	Bobby Labonte (Corpus Christi, TX)	Toyota/Clorox
48	Jimmie Johnson (El Cajon, CA)	Chevrolet/Lowe's/Kobalt Tools
56	Martin Truex Jr. (Mayetta, NJ)	Toyota/NAPA
60	Landon Cassill (Cedar Rapids, IA)	Toyota/Big Red
64	Mike Bliss (Milwaukie, OR)	Toyota/TBA
66	Michael McDowell (Glendale, AZ)	Toyota/HP Racing LLC
71	Andy Lally (Northport, NY)	Chevrolet/Eco-Fuel Saver
78	Regan Smith (Cato, NY)	Chevrolet/Furniture Row Racing
83	Brian Vickers (Thomasville, NC)	Toyota/Red Bull
87	Joe Nemechek (Lakeland, FL)	Toyota/TBA
88	Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Kannapolis, NC)	Chevrolet/Amp Energy/Nat'l Guard
92	Brian Keselowski (Rochester Hills, MI)	Dodge/TBA
99	Carl Edwards (Columbia, MO)	Ford/Subway

* - Defending champion

Leading Contenders (Finish the last six years)
Driver	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Ryan Newman	14th	39th	38th	43rd	16th	Won
Jeff Gordon	12th	10th	Won	13th	25th	2nd
Jimmie Johnson	15th	7th	4th	Won	4th	3rd
Mark Martin	16th	11th	12th	5th	Won	4th
Juan Pablo Montoya	---	---	33rd	16th	24th	5th
Matt Kenseth	42nd	3rd	5th	38th	27th	6th
Carl Edwards	7th	4th	11th	4th	10th	7th
Kyle Busch	8th	36th	7th	10th	17th	8th
Clint Bowyer	22nd	5th	22nd	2nd	26th	9th
Joey Logano	---	---	---	---	21st	10th
Dale Earnhardt Jr	4th	23rd	19th	7th	31st	12th
Kevin Harvick	19th	Won	10th	19th	30th	13th
Brad Keselowski	---	---	---	---	---	16th
Martin Truex Jr.	---	22nd	20th	8th	7th	17th
David Reutimann	---	---	32nd	18th	8th	20th
Greg Biffle	41st	15th	17th	9th	5th	22nd
Tony Stewart	33rd	2nd	2nd	14th	2nd	23rd
Jamie McMurray	25th	14th	23rd	17th	11th	24th
Jeff Burton	3rd	9th	13th	6th	15th	25th
Paul Menard	---	---	25th	21st	23rd	29th
Denny Hamlin	---	34th	3rd	3rd	6th	30th
Kurt Busch	Won	24th	18th	23rd	3rd	35th
Brian Vickers	5th	13th	---	25th	19th	37th
Kasey Kahne	17th	6th	31st	36th	13th	39th
Trevor Bayne	---	---	---	---	---	---

Mover of the Week

David Gilliland - Started 39th on the grid and finished 3rd

Sports Network Selections

Pick to Win - Jeff Gordon

Darkhorse - David Ragan

Last Week's Pick to Win (Dale Earnhardt Jr) - Finished 24th

Last Week's Darkhorse (Greg Biffle) - Finished 35th

NOTES:

Moved up on the schedule this year after an April start in 2010, the Subway Fresh Fit 500 takes center stage on the Sprint Cup docket this week.

Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA had hosted the second round in the 36-race Sprint Cup schedule from 2005-10. NASCAR made several changes to its 2011 Cup schedule, with Phoenix taking over the second race date on the calendar.

The series will not run again at Phoenix until November 13, allowing plenty of time for the track to be repaved. Sprint Cup teams have run on the original surface at Phoenix since the series started racing here in 1988. The new asphalt and certain tweaks in the configuration of the track should produce side-by-side racing in the future.

Last season, Ryan Newman benefited from a late-race caution to end a 77-race winless streak to win at Phoenix International Raceway. Newman passed Jeff Gordon for the lead during a two-lap overtime finish, and then held off Gordon by 0.13 seconds for his 14th career Cup victory but his first since the 2008 Daytona 500. During the caution, Busch and then second-place runner Jimmie Johnson pitted for four tires, while Gordon and Newman took two tires only. Gordon exited the pits first, followed by Newman. Busch and Johnson fell back in the field. Just after the final restart, Newman pulled even with Gordon and then made the winning pass on the backstretch. Newman led just four laps in the 375-lap race.

Starting from the pole position, Mark Martin dominated the 2009 running of the spring race at Phoenix International Raceway, as he crossed the finish line 0.734 seconds ahead of Tony Stewart for his 36th career Sprint Cup title. Martin, whose win total now stands at 40, good for 16th on the all-time winners list, led five times for a race-high 157 laps, as he became the second pole winner to win this race.

In 2008, Jimmie Johnson overcame an early race mistake by stretching his final tank of fuel for the final 81 laps and win his 34th Sprint Cup title. Johnson, who now totals 53 wins, led the final 11 laps to edge Clint Bowyer by seven seconds. Pole sitter Ryan Newman failed to finish the race due to engine problems and placed last.

When Jeff Gordon raced to victory in 2007, he tied the great Dale Earnhardt for sixth on the all-time list with 76 career Sprint Cup titles. Gordon, who started on the pole, has increased his total to 82 victories and is just one shy of Cale Yarbrough for fifth. Gordon opened the race leading the first 28 laps, but did not regain the lead until lap 287. Tony Stewart, who led for 132 laps, could not hold off Gordon, who reclaimed the advantage on lap 300 and held on the rest of the way for a .697 of a seconds win over Stewart. Only two of the 43 cars failed to finish the race. Gordon has recorded 17 top-10 finishes in 24 races in Phoenix, but has just one win.

In 2006, Kevin Harvick swept both Arizona races, as he captured the Nationwide Series race on Friday and then cruised to victory the following evening in the Sprint Cup event. Harvick, who won for the sixth time in his career at the time, finished well ahead of Tony Stewart to complete the double. Harvick started in the 15th position and did not move in front until the 303rd lap, but it was good enough to post a 2.774 seconds victory. Pole sitter Kyle Busch led the first seven laps, but finished well back at 36th. Greg Biffle, who started second on the grid, led six times for a race-high 151 laps and placed 15th.

Although this is just the seventh spring race in Arizona, NASCAR has raced in Phoenix since the late 1970s. The occasion was an event in what is now the NASCAR Grand National Division, West Series. Staged a few days after the NASCAR Sprint Cup season finale at Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California, the NASCAR Grand National Division, West Series event attracted NASCAR Sprint Cup teams en route from California - a tradition that lasted from 1977 through 1982.

The one-mile Arizona track opened in March 1964. Its first race was an open- wheel event won by A.J. Foyt. In the 29 previous races in Phoenix, only four pole sitters have emerged victorious. Over 50-percent of the winners have come from the top-10.

Olympic speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno will serve as the Grand Marshall for this weekend's race. The National Anthem will be sung by Emmy Rossum.

The Sprint Cup Series moves on to Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the March 6th running of the Kobalt Tools 400. Jimmie Johnson won last year's race there.

02/25 13:49:35 ET

As of February 25, 2011, at 01:49 PM ET

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