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Atlanta was one of the many tracks that Cup champion Jimmie Johnson owned on his way to a 10-win season. The 48 Chevy took the checkers in both March and October, having already earned a victory at the 1.5-mile oval in the fall of 2004.

In last year’s spring race, JJ made an inside power move on Tony Stewart with three laps left, going three-wide and forcing the 20 car into the wall and back in line for a second-place finish.

Dating back to a win at Atlanta in the spring of 2002, Stewart has top-10 finishes in 10 of his last 12 races at AMS — with wins in 2006 and 2002, runner-ups in ’07 and ’03, a fourth-place finish in ’02, and fifth-place runs in ’06 and ’03.

Carl Edwards back-to-back-flipped at Atlanta in 2005, taking the 99 Ford to Victory Lane twice in the same season — becoming the first driver to sweep both races in a single season since Georgia native Bill Elliott drove his No. 11 Ford to consecutive home track wins in 1992. Johnson in 2007, Edwards in 2005, Elliott in 1992 and 1985, David Pearson in 1973, Bobby Allison in 1972 and Marvin Panch in 1965 are the only drivers to accomplish the rare single-season sweep in Atlanta.

Jeff Gordon has four wins at the intermediate track — 1995, 1998, 1999 and 2003.

Kasey Kahne won at AMS in the spring of 2006, but has ninth-, 32nd- and 38th-place finishes since his first victory of a six-win ’06 season.

FANTASY STALL
Looking at Checkers

You willing to bet against the 48?
Pretty Solid Pick
Carl Edwards and Martin Truex Jr.
Good Sleeper Pick
Reed Sorenson. No doubt.
Runs on Seven Cylinders
Yeley and the 96 team.
Insider Tip
Stick with Hendrick and Roush drivers.

KEEP AN EYE ON...
Clint Bowyer A pair of sixth-place finishes were huge improvements on his 25th- and 27th-place runs in his rookie year. Bowyer likes these fast tracks, too.

Kyle Busch Burned in the water-in-the-fuel-cell fiasco last October, Busch is heading to an organization at Joe Gibbs that has excelled in Hampton.

Juan Pablo Montoya A fifth in his first visit to AMS proved he acclimated himself to the track quickly. We’ll see how he handles the CoT here this season.

Martin Truex Jr. Truex was close to a win in last fall’s event. Lined up second on a late restart, he had the tires and the horses to overtake race leader Denny Hamlin. However, when Hamlin sputtered, Truex rear-ended him, negating a solid run that that included 135 laps on point.


RACE RESULTS FOR Kobalt Tools 500 (Mar 9th, 2008)
DRIVER MANUFACTURER START FINISH POINTS EARNINGS
Kyle Busch (#18) Toyota 6 1 195 $194,175
Tony Stewart (#20) Toyota 32 2 170 $162,886
Dale Earnhardt Jr. (#88) Chevrolet 2 3 170 $126,300
Greg Biffle (#16) Ford 13 4 165 $107,475
Jeff Gordon (#24) Chevrolet 1 5 160 $138,186
Clint Bowyer (#07) Chevrolet 7 6 155 $96,750
Kevin Harvick (#29) Chevrolet 8 7 146 $124,486
Matt Kenseth (#17) Ford 38 8 142 $124,341
Brian Vickers (#83) Toyota 35 9 143 $79,300
Jeff Burton (#31) Chevrolet 15 10 134 $124,358
Kurt Busch (#2) Dodge 29 11 130 $79,325
Bobby Labonte (#43) Dodge 5 12 132 $114,536
Jimmie Johnson (#48) Chevrolet 11 13 124 $127,786
Ryan Newman (#12) Dodge 12 14 121 $115,075
Denny Hamlin (#11) Toyota 22 15 118 $112,791
Juan Pablo Montoya (#42) Dodge 19 16 115 $104,158
Casey Mears (#5) Chevrolet 39 17 112 $89,850
Scott Riggs (#66) Chevrolet 28 18 109 $93,908
Paul Menard (#15) Chevrolet 20 19 106 $83,425
David Reutimann (#44) Toyota 30 20 103 $92,908
Martin Truex Jr. (#1) Chevrolet 3 21 100 $106,233
Mark Martin (#8) Chevrolet 10 22 97 $108,558
David Ragan (#6) Ford 14 23 94 $83,950
Robby Gordon (#7) Dodge 26 24 91 $95,958
Sam Hornish Jr (#77) Dodge 33 25 88 $117,550
Dale Jarrett (#44) Toyota 43 26 85 $73,825
Mike Skinner (#84) Toyota 34 27 82 $69,800
Kasey Kahne (#9) Dodge 9 28 84 $102,941
Travis Kvapil (#28) Ford 42 29 76 $99,789
Michael Waltrip (#55) Toyota 27 30 73 $81,508
Reed Sorenson (#41) Dodge 25 31 70 $99,489
David Gilliland (#38) Ford 31 32 67 $81,722
Dario Franchitti (#40) Dodge 23 33 64 $80,550
Dave Blaney (#22) Toyota 16 34 61 $69,025
Patrick Carpentier (#10) Dodge 21 35 58 $68,990
Joe Nemechek (#78) Chevrolet 17 36 55 $68,955
J.J. Yeley (#96) Toyota 37 37 52 $76,920
Regan Smith (#01) Chevrolet 41 38 49 $76,885
Jeremy Mayfield (#40) Dodge 36 39 46 $68,850
Jamie McMurray (#26) Ford 24 40 43 $76,810
Kyle Petty (#45) Dodge 40 41 40 $68,765
Carl Edwards (#99) Ford 4 42 42 $116,395
Elliott Sadler (#19) Dodge 18 43 34 $94,518



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