Posted 11/08/2012 at 11:41 PM
Clint Bowyer: Primary chassis No. 718 is the race winning car from Sept. 8 event at Richmond and also finished fourth in the Chase opener at Loudon. Backup chassis No. 712 finished 30th at the first Phoenix race after cutting several tires early in the race. It also raced to a seventh place finish at Richmond in the spring......................................
Greg Biffle: and the Matt Puccia led #16 Filtrete Ford Fusion team will bring Primary Chassis RK-778 to Phoenix, which last ran at New Hampshire and finished 9th, chassis RK-778 is the same car that Biffle drove to a third-place finish in the spring at Phoenix. Backup chassis is RK-777 which last ran Pocono and finished 24th. Biffle has an average starting position of 13.9 and an average finish of 14.1 at Phoenix..............................
Kevin Harvick: will pilot Chassis No.383 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stable in the AdvoCare 500. Harvick raced this Budweiser chassis at Phoenix International Raceway in March and Dover International Speedway in June, collecting second-place finishes in both events. The Bakersfield, Calif., native also drove this Chevrolet to a 15th-place finish at Bristol Motor Speedway in August and to a 13th-place result at Dover in September.................
Jimmie Johnson: Chassis No. 715 serves as the primary for Johnson at Phoenix. It last ran at New Hampshire in Sept and finished 2nd, also running at NHMS in July finishing 7th and also Richmond in April, finishing 6th. Chassis No. 689 serves as the backup.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr.: This weekend, crew chief Steve Letarte and the #88 crew will unload Hendrick Motorsports Chassis No. 88-721. Earnhardt first raced this chassis to a fourth-place finish at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in July. Among all-time drivers, Earnhardt's two wins rank him tied for second at Phoenix behind teammate Jimmie Johnson. Earnhardt ranks fifth among active drivers in the laps led category with 460 laps, and he is tied for 12th among active drivers with four top-five finishes. He ranks tied for 11th among active drivers with eight top-10s at the one-mile desert oval.
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