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Paul Menard

No. 27 Tarkett/Menards Chevrolet Impala

Event Preview Fact Sheet

This Week’s Tarkett/Menards Chevrolet at Phoenix International Raceway … Paul Menard will pilot Chassis No. 328 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stable in the Fresh Fit 500. This Chevrolet Impala was utilized by the No. 27 team three times in 2011, most recently at Phoenix International Raceway in November 2011 where Menard started 11th and finished ninth. This chassis was also raced last season at Darlington Raceway in May, where the Eau Claire, Wis., native finished 22nd and Las Vegas Motor Speedway in March where he finished 12th.



Kevin Harvick

No. 29 Rheem Chevrolet Impala

Event Preview Fact Sheet

This Week’s Rheem Chevrolet at Phoenix International Raceway … Kevin Harvick will pilot Chassis No. 365 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stable. This former No. 33 racer competed in three races in NASCAR’s senior division last season, placing finishes of 17th at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in July, 22nd at Richmond International Raceway in September and 10th at Phoenix International Raceway in November.



Brendan Gaughan

No. 33 South Point Hotel & Casino Chevrolet Chevrolet Impala

Event Preview Fact Sheet

This Week’s South Point Chevrolet at Phoenix International Raceway … Brendan Gaughan will pilot Chassis No. 351 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stable. This Chevrolet Impala is a proven contender in Sprint Cup Series competition, as Gaughan’s RCR teammate Kevin Harvick made a trip to Victory Lane with it in May 2011 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Harvick also drove this former No. 29 racer to a seventh-place finish at Atlanta Motor Speedway in September, a 10th-place finish at Dover International Speedway in October and a 19th-place finish at Phoenix International Raceway in November.



No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger News and Notes

This Week’s Charger… The No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger team will race chassis PRS-810 during Sunday’s Subway Fresh Fit 500 at Phoenix International Raceway (PIR). This is a new chassis to the No. 2 fleet.

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Mark Martin, 2012 NSCS SUBWAY Fresh Fit 500k Race Preview

Notes

· CAREER: Sunday’s Phoenix race will be Martin’s 832nd career start. He finished 10th in Monday’s Daytona 500.

· 2012: Mark Martin will race the No. 55 in 24 races plus the All Star race in 2012. Michael Waltrip will drive the No. 55 in six races. MWR will fill the remaining races with a driver to be named later.

· WINNING: Martin is the only driver to win at Phoenix in two different manufacturers: Ford (1993) and Chevrolet (2009).

· TWITTER: @55markmartin, @mw55, @rchilders55, @mwrteam, @aaronssports, @toyotaracing



· CHASSIS NOTES: Primary- 714 Backup- 715 – Both are new cars



Carl Edwards – NSCS PHOENIX ADVANCE

Team: No. 99 Subway Ford Fusion

Crew Chief: Bob Osborne

Chassis: RK-801 New car

QUOTES

Carl Edwards on racing at Phoenix:

“I love going to Phoenix. The weather looks like it’s going to be great, and I’m really excited to see how the track has aged over the winter. I thought the surface was very racy last time we were there and I think everyone is excited to see if it gets even better for the race this weekend. This is a huge race for us being the Subway Fresh Fit 500 and we’re racing the Subway Ford so a win would be huge. A year ago we felt like we had the fastest car and got it torn up early in the race, so it would be wonderful to go back there again and be able to win this thing.”

Crew chief Bob Osborne on racing at Phoenix:

“I really like the new track configuration at Phoenix and I’m interested to see how the surface has aged since our last race there. Carl runs so well there and we are taking a new car that will hopefully get us to victory lane. We survived Daytona with an eighth-place finish so a solid run at Phoenix will help establish our standing in the points early in the season.”

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Joey Logano and the Home Depot #20 Team

The Joe Gibbs Racing Machines:

· PRIMARY CAR INFO: Chassis #336 will ride with Logano and the Home Depot team at Phoenix this weekend. The car was used at Phoenix last season.

· BACK-UP CAR: Chassis #339 will serve at the team’s backup for Phoenix.



Marcos Ambrose and the #9 Team:

Chassis History: The No. 9 RPM team has prepared chassis No. 805 for this weekend’s race at Phoenix International Raceway. This Stanley Ford is brand new and has never been run before.



Clint Bowyer and the #15 Team:

Chassis Notes: The No. 15 5-hour ENERGY team will race chassis No. 712 at Phoenix. The backup is No. 718 – both are new.



Greg Biffle – NSCS ADVANCE

Chassis: Primary: RK-778 Last ran New Hampshire – finished third; Backup: RK-759 Last ran Phoenix as the No. 6 – finished 33rd



JMac and Montya:

CHASSIS INFO

No. 1 Bass Pro Shops / Tracker Boats Chevrolet (NSCS): Chassis #1206. Crew Chief Kevin “Bono” Manion and the No.1 Bass Pro Shops/Tracker Boats team will be bringing a brand new chassis, Chassis #1206, to Phoenix International Raceway this weekend.

No. 42 Target Chevrolet (NSCS): Chassis #1203. Heroy and the No. 42 Target team will be bringing a brand new chassis, Chassis #1203, to Phoenix International Raceway this weekend.

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Chassis choices for reuty & blaney:

Reuty: CHASSIS NO. 297 – Reutimann will pilot the No. 297 chassis. TBR debuted chassis No. 297 with Blaney at Texas Motor Speedway in November 2011. Blaney also piloted the chassis at Homestead-Miami Speedway in the 2011 NSCS Season Finale where he finished 28th. TBR purchased the chassis from Richard Childress Racing during the 2011 season.

Blaney: CHASSIS NO. 293 – Blaney will drive the No. 293, which he drove five times during the 2011 season. The Harford, Ohio native’s best start with the No. 293 chassis was 22nd and best finish was 27th. TBR purchased the chassis from Richard Childress Racing, where Jeff Burton drove the chassis prior to its debut with TBR.


Aric Almirola, 2012 NSCS SUBWAY Fresh Fit 500k Race Preview

Aric Almirola on Phoenix: “I like Phoenix a lot. I really like the old Phoenix track and the new Phoenix is taking a little bit of getting used to, but it’s still fun to race at. I’ve always seemed to do well there and I’ve always seemed to have fast cars there. We qualified on the pole there last year in the Nationwide Series and led a lot of laps and had a really good car. We thought we had a shot to win, but we had some pit stop issues.

“I’ve seen everything Richard Petty Motorsports did at Phoenix and I saw how good Greg ran with AJ there and I expect to be able to go and run just as good. I feel like, as a driver, Phoenix is way up there on the list of one of the places that I excel at. I know from everything that I saw last year at RPM, Phoenix is at the top of the list as a place that they excelled at as well. Hopefully with those two combinations together, we should be able to go there and run really well.”

Crew Chief Greg Erwin’s Thoughts on Racing in Phoenix: “The Petty group is really excited about going to Phoenix. We had two very fast cars there last year and we had one of our better finishes of the second half of the season.

“We learned a lot in the race last year with the new pavement. It really was a good mix up of strategies—a lot of right side tire, left side tire combinations. What we learned about the racetrack will allow us to go back and see how our race progressed, where we may have made mistakes, where we could have made our car better. And throw in the added twist that we’re going back with a new driver now. Aric is pretty excited about going back there. He feels he runs really well there. I think he was on the pole there in his Nationwide car last year, so he is very confident that we should be able to put our same setup back in the car that we ran last year and let him get a feel for what he needs to do to make that setup go fast since the car ran so well there last year.”

Chassis History: The No. 43 RPM team has prepared chassis No. 804 for this weekend’s race at Phoenix International Raceway. This is a Ford Fusion brand new to the team.

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#5-Kasey Kahne: For the March 4 race, Francis will unload Hendrick Motorsports Chassis No. 5-663, which was built in March 2011. The No. 5 team competed in the car four times in 2011, notably collecting a top-10 finish at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway in September.


#14-Tony Stewart: Chassis No. 14-637: This car made its debut in April 2011 at Martinsville, where it experienced some teething problems, qualifying 28th and finishing 34th with a broken rear-end gear. Prior to Martinsville, Chassis No. 14-637 was tested March 14 at the half-mile Little Rock Speedway in Rockingham, N.C. The July race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon marked the car's second career start, where it qualified second and led twice for 48 laps around the 1.058-mile oval before finishing .773 of a second behind its sister car, piloted by Ryan Newman. It saw track time again during a Goodyear Tire Test at Phoenix International Raceway Aug. 29-30 before returning to New Hampshire in September for its third career start and first of the Chase. The car carried Stewart to his second straight Chase win, leading only the final two laps after previous leader Clint Bowyer ran out of fuel just before taking the white flag in the 300-lap race. Chassis No. 14-637 returned to action and another flat, 1-mile oval for the 2011 season's penultimate race at Phoenix. It again performed well by leading five times for a race-high 160 laps to deliver its third straight top three finish. The car returns to Phoenix with fresh sheet metal to make its first start of 2012 and its fifth overall with Sunday's Subway Fresh Fit 500k.


#18-Kyle Busch: Chassis No. 326: No. 326 will make its fourth-ever start in Sunday's Subway Fresh Fit 500k at Phoenix. This chassis made its debut in the first race of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup last September at Chicagoland. After qualifying a solid ninth and running within the top-10 all race long, Busch ran out of gas with just two laps remaining, forcing him to come to pit road for a splash of gas, which led to a disappointing 22nd-place finish. Up next, Busch qualified third and finished 11th in the Hollywood Casino 400 last October at Kansas Speedway. Most recently, the No. 18 team brought No. 326 to Phoenix last November. After qualifying 34th, Busch was forced to start at the rear of the field after the team changed an engine during the first practice session of the weekend. Despite the setback, Busch picked his way to the front and led 23 laps before more engine issues forced him to the sidelines after only completing 188 laps, relegating him to a disappointing 38th-place finish.


#22-A.J. Allmendinger: and his Todd Gordon-led Penske Racing No. 22 Team will be racing their "PRS-808" Shell-Pennzoil Dodge Charger in this weekend's Subway Fresh Fit 500 action at Phoenix. This is a brand new addition to the "Double Deuce" fleet. The "PRS-807" is the backup Dodge Charger. It is a new car, also.


#31-Jeff Burton: will race chassis No. 382 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stable this weekend. This is a brand new No. 31 Chevrolet Impala that will turn its first laps during opening practice on Friday.


#39-Ryan Newman: Chassis No. 39-691: Two starts, two top-10 finishes. That was the story for Chassis No. 39-691 last season as it competed in the fall races at Richmond and Phoenix.This weekend at Phoenix will be Chassis No. 39-691's first appearance in 2012.


#48-Jimmie Johnson:: Johnson will pilot chassis No. 689. Chassis No. 590 will serve as the backup.



#51-Kurt Busch: Chassis No. 662: This weekend's Subway Fresh Fit 500k will be the second Phoenix race for this chassis which was built in June 2011. Landon Cassill finished 29th at Phoenix in Chassis No. 662 last fall. The car was also used in events at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in July and September 2011, scoring 26th- and 30th-place finishes, respectively. Kurt Busch tested this chassis in January at Nashville Superspeedway during a two-day test session in preparation for the upcoming season.


#88-Dale Earnhardt, Jr.: This weekend, crew chief Steve Letarte and the No. 88 crew will unload Hendrick Motorsports Chassis No. 88-709. This is a brand new, untested chassis.