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2010 Finish
Finish	Driver	Start	Finish	Driver	Start
1	Jimmie Johnson	2	6	Marcos Ambrose	6
2	Robby Gordon	16	7	Greg Biffle	9
3	Kevin Harvick	4	8	Boris Said	17
4	Kasey Kahne	4	9	Tony Stewart	7
5	Jeff Gordon	5	10	Juan Pablo Montoya	14

2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350 Facts and Figures
AVERAGE SPEED: 74.357 m.p.h.
TIME OF RACE: 2 hours, 56 minutes, 38 seconds
MARGIN OF VICTORY: 3.105 seconds
CAUTION FLAGS: 7 for 14 laps
LEAD CHANGES: 12 among 8 drivers
POLE WINNER: Kasey Kahne (93.893 m.p.h.)

Past Toyota/Save Mart 350 Winners (Starting Position) Car -- Speed

2010 -- Jimmie Johnson (2nd) -- Chevrolet -- 74.357 m.p.h.

2009 -- Kasey Kahne (5th) -- Dodge -- 71.012 m.p.h.

2008 -- Kyle Busch (30th) -- Toyota -- 76.445 m.p.h.

2007 -- Juan Pablo Montoya (32nd) -- Dodge -- 74.547 m.p.h.

2006 -- Jeff Gordon (11th) -- Chevrolet -- 73.953 m.p.h.

2005 -- Tony Stewart (7th) -- Chevrolet -- 72.845 m.p.h.

2004 -- Jeff Gordon (1st) -- Chevrolet -- 77.456 m.p.h.

2003 -- Robby Gordon (2nd) -- Chevrolet -- 73.821 m.p.h.

2002 -- Ricky Rudd (7th) -- Ford -- 81.007 m.p.h. (race record)

2001 -- Tony Stewart (3rd) -- Pontiac -- 75.889 m.p.h.

2000 -- Jeff Gordon (5th) -- Chevrolet -- 78.789 m.p.h.

1999 -- Jeff Gordon (1st) -- Chevrolet -- 70.378 m.p.h.

1998 -- Jeff Gordon (1st) -- Chevrolet -- 72.387 m.p.h.

1997 -- Mark Martin (1st) -- Ford -- 75.788 m.p.h.

1996 -- Rusty Wallace (7th) -- Ford -- 77.673 m.p.h.

1995 -- Dale Earnhardt (4th) -- Chevrolet -- 70.681 m.p.h.

1994 -- Ernie Irvan (1st) -- Ford -- 77.458 m.p.h.

1993 -- Geoff Bodine (3rd) -- Ford -- 77.013 m.p.h.

1992 -- Ernie Irvan (2nd) -- Chevrolet -- 81.412 m.p.h.

1991 -- Davey Allison (13th) -- Ford -- 72.970 m.p.h.

1990 -- Rusty Wallace (11th) -- Pontiac -- 69.245 m.p.h.

1989 -- Ricky Rudd (4th) -- Buick -- 76.088 m.p.h.

NOTE: Formerly called Banquet Frozen Foods 300 (1989-91), The Save Mart 300

(1992), Save Mart Supermarkets 300 (1993-97), Save Mart/Kragen 350

(1998-2000).

Past Toyota/Save Mart 350 Pole Winners (Finish)

2010 -- Kasey Kahne -- 4th

2009 -- Brian Vickers -- 16th

2008 -- Kasey Kahne -- 33rd

2007 -- Jamie McMurray -- 37th

2006 -- Kurt Busch -- 5th

2005 -- Jeff Gordon -- 33rd

2004 -- Jeff Gordon -- 1st

2003 -- Boris Said -- 6th

2002 -- Tony Stewart -- 2nd

2001 -- Jeff Gordon -- 3rd

2000 -- Rusty Wallace -- 26th

1999 -- Jeff Gordon -- 1st

1998 -- Jeff Gordon -- 1st

1997 -- Mark Martin -- 1st

1996 -- Terry Labonte -- 5th

1995 -- Ricky Rudd -- 4th

1994 -- Ernie Irvan -- 1st

1993 -- Dale Earnhardt -- 6th

1992 -- Ricky Rudd -- 4th

1991 -- Ricky Rudd -- 2nd

1990 -- Ricky Rudd -- 3rd

1989 -- Rusty Wallace -- 2nd

Last Race Results
RACE: Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 (June 19th)
SITE: Michigan International Speedway -- Brooklyn, Michigan
MILES: 400
LAPS: 200
WINNER: Denny Hamlin
RUNNER-UP: Matt Kenseth
THIRD: Kyle Busch
FOURTH: Paul Menard
FIFTH: Carl Edwards
POLE WINNER: Kurt Busch (Finished 11th)
TIME OF RACE: 2 hours, 36 minutes, 50 seconds
AVERAGE SPEED: 153.029 m.p.h.
MARGIN OF VICTORY: 0.281 second
CAUTION FLAGS: 5 for 18 laps
LEAD CHANGES: 21 among 12 drivers
LAP LEADERS: Kurt Busch 1-8; R. Newman 9-11; Kurt Busch 12; G. Biffle 13-27;
	M. Bliss 28; C. Mears 29; G. Biffle 30-55; M. Kenseth 56; G.
	Biffle 57-62; C. Edwards 63; G. Biffle 64-71; M. Kenseth 72-84;
	Kyle Busch 85; B. Labonte 86; G. Biffle 87-99; Kyle Busch
	100-121; K. Harvick 122; P. Menard 123-124; Kyle Busch 125-160;
	M. Kenseth 161-163; C. Edwards 164-192; D. Hamlin 193-200.

Toyota/Save Mart 350 Entry List
Car	Driver, Hometown	Car/Name
00	David Reutimann (Zephyrhills, FL)	Toyota/Aaron's Dream Machine
1	Jamie McMurray (Joplin, MO)	Chevrolet/McDonald's
2	Brad Keselowski (Rochester Hills, MI)	Dodge/Miller Lite
4	Kasey Kahne (Enumclaw, WA)	Toyota/Red Bull
5	Mark Martin (Batesville, AR)	Chevrolet/Farmers Insurance
6	David Ragan (Unadilla, GA)	Ford/UPS
7	Robby Gordon (Orange, CA)	Dodge/Speed Energy
9	Marcos Ambrose (Launceston, Australia)	Ford/Stanley
11	Denny Hamlin (Chesterfield, VA)	Toyota/FedEx Freight
13	Casey Mears (Bakersfield, CA)	Toyota/GEICO
14	Tony Stewart (Columbus, IN)	Chevrolet/Office Depot/Mobil One
16	Greg Biffle (Vancouver, WA)	Ford/3M
17	Matt Kenseth (Cambridge, WI)	Ford/Crown Royal
18	Kyle Busch (Las Vegas, NV)	Toyota/M&M's Pretzel
20	Joey Logano (Middletown, CT)	Toyota/Home Depot
22	Kurt Busch (Las Vegas, NV)	Dodge/Shell/Pennzoil
24	Jeff Gordon (Vallejo, CA)	Chevrolet/DuPont
27	Paul Menard (Eau Claire, WI)	Chevrolet/Menards/Duracell
29	Kevin Harvick (Bakersfield, CA)	Chevrolet/Budweiser
31	Jeff Burton (South Boston, VA)	Chevrolet/Caterpillar
32	Terry Labonte (Corpus Christi, TX)	Ford/U.S. Chrome
33	Clint Bowyer (Emporia, KS)	Chevrolet/Cheerios/Hamb. Helper
34	David Gilliland (Riverside, CA)	Ford/Taco Bell
36	Dave Blaney (Hartford, OH)	Chevrolet/Big Red
37	Tomy Drissi (Hollywood, CA)	Ford/Black Cat Fireworks
38	Tony Ave (Hurley, WI)	Ford/Long John Silver's
39	Ryan Newman (South Bend, IN)	Chevrolet/Haas Automation
42	Juan Pablo Montoya (Bogota, Colombia)	Chevrolet/Cottonelle
43	A.J. Allmendinger (Los Gatos, CA)	Ford/Best Buy
46	Andy Pilgrim (Nottingham, England)	Chevrolet/Red Line Oil
47	Bobby Labonte (Corpus Christi, TX)	Toyota/Clorox/Kleenex
48 *	Jimmie Johnson (El Cajon, CA)	Chevrolet/Lowe's
51	Landon Cassill (Cedar Rapids, IA)	Chevrolet/Security Benefits
56	Martin Truex Jr. (Mayetta, NJ)	Toyota/NAPA Auto Parts
60	Mike Skinner (Susanville, CA)	Toyota/Big Red
66	Michael McDowell (Glendale, AZ)	Toyota/HP Racing
71	Andy Lally (Northport, NY)	Ford/TRG Motorsports
77	P.J. Jones (Torrance, CA)	Dodge/Speed Energy
78	Regan Smith (Cato, NY)	Chevrolet/Furniture Row Racing
81	Brian Simo (Carlsbad, CA)	Chevrolet/Whitney's Collision
83	Brian Vickers (Thomasville, NC)	Toyota/Red Bull
87	Joe Nemechek (Lakeland, FL)	Toyota/NEMCO Motorsports
88	Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Kannapolis, NC)	Chevrolet/Amp Energy/Nat'l Guard
99	Carl Edwards (Columbia, MO)	Ford/Scotts Ortho

* - defending champion.

Leading Contenders (Finish the last nine years)
Driver	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Jimmie Johnson	35th	17th	5th	36th	10th	17th	15th	4th	Won
Robby Gordon	11th	Won	34th	16th	40th	16th	36th	36th	2nd
Kevin Harvick	14th	3rd	12th	37th	24th	2nd	30th	29th	3rd
Kasey Kahne	---	---	31st	41st	7th	23rd	33rd	Won	4th
Jeff Gordon	37th	2nd	Won	33rd	Won	7th	3rd	9th	5th
Marcos Ambrose	---	---	---	---	---	---	42nd	3rd	6th
Greg Biffle	---	37th	13th	14th	4th	5th	11th	28th	7th
Boris Said	41st	6th	6th	17th	9th	9th	41st	24th	8th
Tony Stewart	2nd	12th	15th	Won	28th	6th	10th	2nd	9th
Juan Pablo Montoya	---	---	---	---	---	Won	6th	6th	10th
Dale Earnhardt Jr	30th	11th	11th	42nd	26th	13th	12th	26th	11th
Mark Martin	7th	19th	8th	15th	13th	---	---	35th	14th
Jamie McMurray	---	20th	2nd	13th	18th	37th	18th	14th	15th
Ryan Newman	9th	5th	14th	9th	2nd	20th	7th	17th	16th
Jeff Burton	29th	38th	9th	30th	7th	3rd	13th	34th	27th
Carl Edwards	---	---	---	38th	6th	18th	9th	13th	29th
Matt Kenseth	39th	14th	20th	11th	17th	34th	8th	18th	30th
Clint Bowyer	---	---	---	---	16th	4th	4th	8th	31st
Kurt Busch	4th	28th	36th	3rd	5th	22nd	32nd	15th	32nd
Joey Logano	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	19th	33rd
Denny Hamlin	---	---	---	---	12th	10th	27th	5th	34th
Kyle Busch	---	---	---	40th	11th	8th	Won	22nd	39th

Mover of the Week

Kyle Busch - Started in the 24th position and finished 3rd

Sports Network Selections

Pick to Win - Kevin Harvick

Darkhorse - Kasey Kahne

Last Week's Pick to Win (Tony Stewart) - Finished 7th

Last Week's Darkhorse (Dale Earnhardt Jr) - Finished 21st

NOTES:

Jimmie Johnson will attempt to win the Toyota/Save Mart 350 for the second straight year, but it will be a difficult task, as no driver other than Jeff Gordon has ever accomplished this task in the 22-year history of the race. Gordon won at Sonoma, CA consecutively from 1998-2000.

Johnson finally got the monkey off his back at Sonoma last year. Infineon Raceway was one of just five active tracks that Johnson had not won on. The list now includes Watkins Glen, Chicagoland, Michigan and Homestead-Miami.

Last season, Johnson benefited from Marcos Ambrose's costly mistake during a caution period in the closing laps to win the 2010 running of the Toyota/Save Mart 350. Ambrose, who was attempting to win his first career Sprint Cup Series race, held the lead during a caution with seven laps remaining, but the Australian driver turned his engine off in an effort to conserve fuel. Ambrose slowed on the track and fell from his leading position to seventh.

According to NASCAR rules, drivers must maintain the caution speed in order to keep their running position. That allowed Johnson, who was running second at the time, to take the lead for good. After the final restart, Johnson easily pulled away from Robby Gordon and then drove to his first road course win in 17 starts.

In 2009 Kasey Kahne reclaimed the lead on the 80th lap and never looked back, as he outlasted Tony Stewart by 0.748 seconds for his 10th career Sprint Cup title. Pole sitter Brian Vickers led the opening 16 laps, but finished a distant 16th. Prior to his win at Sonoma, Kahne had never finished in the top-10 in a NASCAR road course race. His best finish was 14th, which came twice at Watkins Glen, NY. The victory also ended a 37-race drought, with his last win coming in June 2008 at Pocono, while driving for Gillett Evernham Motorsports. Prior to the start of the 2009 season, GEM aligned with Petty Enterprises to form Richard Petty Motorsports.

After three average finishes in this race, Kyle Busch took the checkered flag in 2008, as he out dueled David Gilliland by 1.716 seconds for his ninth Sprint Cup title. Starting from the 30th position, Busch took the lead for the first time on lap 33, but was overtaken by Carl Edwards on lap 69. Edwards' advantage was short-lived, as Busch reclaimed the lead for good on lap 71, and then held it the rest of the way. Pole sitter Kasey Kahne led the first four laps, but was never a factor from there, as he finished 33rd. Currently second in points, Busch's Sprint Cup win total now stands at 21, including his two victories this season.

In his 17th Sprint Cup start, Juan Pablo Montoya picked up his first win at Sonoma, as he took the checkered flag 4.097 seconds ahead of Kevin Harvick in 2007. Montoya, who started 32nd, claimed the lead from Jamie McMurray on lap 104, and then led the final seven circuits. McMurray, the pole sitter McMurray, wound up finishing 37th. Only four cars failed to finish the race, two of which ran out of gas (Bobby Labonte and Kyle Petty). With the victory, Montoya and Dodge snapped Chevrolet's four-year winning run at Sonoma. Robby Gordon led twice for a race-high 48 laps and finished 16th.

Jeff Gordon continued Chevrolet's dominance of this race, as he won for the fifth time at Infineon Raceway in 2006. Gordon reclaimed the lead on lap 88, and the held it for the rest of the way to edge Ryan Newman by 1.250 seconds. Gordon led twice for a total of 44 laps, as he won for the 74th time in his Sprint Cup career. Pole sitter Kurt Busch finished fifth after leading the first 29 laps. Gordon's win total now stands at 84.

Gordon is a road-course warrior with nine wins (five at Infineon and four at Watkins Glen). In 18 career starts at Infineon, Gordon has 11 top fives, 14 top-10s and five poles. Gordon has led the most laps there with 437, more than twice the total of Rusty Wallace (171), who has led the second most. Gordon's average finish at this track is 9.05.

In 2005, Tony Stewart crossed the finish line 2.266 seconds ahead of Ricky Rudd to capture his 20th career Sprint Cup title. Before an estimated 100,000 in attendance, Stewart reclaimed the lead on lap 100 of the 110-lap event to edge Rudd. Pole sitter Jeff Gordon, who led the first 32 laps, finished 33rd. Stewart led for a total of 39 laps. Stewart also captured this race in 2000 and has an average finish of 9.250 and has seven road-course wins.

In 1968, a twisting 12-turn, 2.52-mile road course and a quarter-mile drag strip were carved into the picturesque rolling hills at the gateway to the Sonoma Wine Country. Whether its amateur or professional SCCA road races, AMA and AFM motorcycle racing, exotic sports cars, vintage cars or the raw power of NASCAR Sprint Cup, NASCAR Trucks and NHRA drag races, Infineon Raceway has played host to some of the racing world's top events and its greatest moments. Racing legends such as Mario Andretti, Al Unser, Dan Gurney, Kenny Roberts, Shirley Muldowney, Dale Earnhardt and Don "The Snake" Prudhomme, as well as modern day stars including Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart, have all left their indelible marks at this unique and historic facility. Infineon is arguably the world's busiest racing facility, with track activity scheduled an average of 340 days a year. It is the nation's only high-performance automotive industrial park.

Dale Earnhardt, who tragically died during a last-lap accident in the 2001 Daytona 500, meant the world to so many people, and the fans of Northern California were no different. To that end, Infineon Raceway honored the seven- time NASCAR Cup champion by naming the first completed project in its $35 million Modernization Plan after Earnhardt. The Turn 2 Hillside Terrace seats is known as the "Earnhardt Terrace." The entrance into the Earnhardt Terrace features a four-foot high monument for fans as a testament to the greatest driver in NASCAR Sprint Cup history. A black granite plaque at the top of the monument bears the familiar No.3. A second plaque on the side has the words "Earnhardt Terrace" engraved. The area also has a flag pole with the No.3 waving at the top. The monument will sit on a concrete platform overlooking sweeping views of the raceway and the surrounding Sonoma Valley. The monument is made of the same split-face concrete block that has been used to construct the 34,000 Hillside Terrace Seats above Turns 2-4 on the road course. Infineon Raceway was the site of the only NASCAR Sprint Cup road-course victory of Earnhardt's career in 1995.

The pole sitter has won this race five times in the 22-year history of this event. In fact, 17 of the 22 races have been won from the top-10. When Montoya captured the 2007 race, he came from the 32nd starting position, the furthest a driver has started and gone on to capture the checkered flag.

Actor John Ratzenberger from the TV show Cheers will be the Grand Marshal this year and will call the drivers to start their engines.

The Sprint Cup Series returns to Daytona International Speedway for the July 2 Coke Zero 400. Kevin Harvick is the defending champion.

06/21 19:10:05 ET

As of June 21, 2011, at 07:10 PM ET

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