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Chevrolet has won six of the seven races since the Cup schedule added the 1.5-mile tri-oval outside of the Windy City in 2001. Two-time winners Tony Stewart (’07, ’04) and Kevin Harvick (’02, ’01) have combined to win four of the seven Chicagoland events — with Jeff Gordon (’06), Dale Earnhardt Jr. (’05) and Ryan Newman (’03) rounding out the list of winners. Newman’s No. 12 Dodge is the only non-Chevy to win.

Last season, Stewart led 108 laps, cruising to victory ahead of Roush teammates Matt Kenseth (second) and Carl Edwards (third). Strange, since the year before, Edwards finished 20th, Kenseth 22nd and Stewart 32nd.

Kenseth, however, did lead 112 laps in ’06, when he was spun by Jeff Gordon for the win, and 176 laps during a runner-up finish to Junior in ’05. The 17 may be finally ready to seal the deal.

But of those drivers who have yet to win at the track in Joliet, Ill., Jimmie Johnson seems the most likely to end the streak. Last year, Johnson led 82 laps before a crash resulted in a 37th-place finish. Before that, the two-time Cup champ had not finished worse than sixth in his five previous trips to Chi-town.

Jeff Burton has been hit-or-miss, with a second in 2006, a sixth in ’03 and a seventh in ’07, along with 30th- and 33rd-place runs.

Watch for Reed Sorenson, who has run seventh (’06) and 12th (’07) in his two trips to Chicagoland.

FANTASY STALL
Looking at Checkers
Jimmie Johnson
Pretty Solid Pick
Kevin Harvick
Good Sleeper Pick
Juan Pablo Montoya placed 15th last season and only figures to get better.
Runs on Seven Cylinders

Jamie McMurray
Insider Tip
The odds of a fuel-mileage race here are high.

KEEP AN EYE ON...
Clint Bowyer Two Cup starts, two top 10s. Book it.

Casey Mears Mears was a solid fifth in his Hendrick sheet metal last season. He also won the Busch/Nationwide event here in 2006. He has a win in him on an intermediate this season, and this could be the place. Be proactive in picking Mears for the fantasy squad on the 1.5-milers.

Kevin Harvick He’s usually tough to figure, but the one place you can shoe Harvick in for a solid finish is Chicago. Two victories and, most recently, back-to-back fourth-place finishes are proof of that.

Brian Vickers When he actually made the show last season, this Red Bull wheelman proved he could notch top 10s on the big intermediates. There were Vickers sightings at Atlanta, California, Charlotte and Michigan in ’07.


RACE RESULTS FOR LifeLock.com 400 (Jul 11th, 2009)
DRIVER MANUFACTURER START FINISH POINTS EARNINGS
Mark Martin (#5) Chevrolet 14 1 195 $317,825
Jeff Gordon (#24) Chevrolet 7 2 170 $241,576
Kasey Kahne (#9) Dodge 15 3 170 $215,923
Tony Stewart (#14) Chevrolet 32 4 165 $165,373
Denny Hamlin (#11) Toyota 4 5 155 $152,225
Ryan Newman (#39) Chevrolet 12 6 150 $142,554
Brian Vickers (#83) Toyota 1 7 151 $143,823
Jimmie Johnson (#48) Chevrolet 3 8 147 $163,051
Clint Bowyer (#33) Chevrolet 5 9 138 $113,000
Juan Pablo Montoya (#42) Chevrolet 19 10 134 $143,848
Marcos Ambrose (#47) Toyota 10 11 130 $117,348
David Reutimann (#00) Toyota 9 12 127 $121,448
A.J. Allmendinger (#44) Dodge 20 13 124 $98,225
Carl Edwards (#99) Ford 25 14 121 $144,256
Dale Earnhardt Jr. (#88) Chevrolet 13 15 118 $111,550
Martin Truex Jr. (#1) Chevrolet 21 16 90 $130,190
Kurt Busch (#2) Dodge 22 17 112 $110,100
Joey Logano (#20) Toyota 24 18 109 $139,251
Kevin Harvick (#29) Chevrolet 28 19 106 $130,653
Michael Waltrip (#55) Toyota 37 20 103 $101,750
Bobby Labonte (#96) Ford 42 21 100 $120,879
Jamie McMurray (#26) Ford 30 22 97 $99,750
Matt Kenseth (#17) Ford 33 23 94 $134,940
Reed Sorenson (#43) Dodge 11 24 91 $127,251
David Ragan (#6) Ford 17 25 88 $98,050
David Stremme (#12) Dodge 36 26 85 $121,065
Elliott Sadler (#19) Dodge 34 27 87 $95,475
Casey Mears (#07) Chevrolet 38 28 79 $102,375
Bill Elliott (#21) Ford 8 29 76 $84,175
John Andretti (#34) Chevrolet 40 30 73 $93,425
Greg Biffle (#16) Ford 35 31 70 $103,325
Brad Keselowski (#25) Chevrolet 29 32 67 $83,525
Kyle Busch (#18) Toyota 6 33 64 $132,098
Robby Gordon (#7) Toyota 41 34 61 $101,885
Paul Menard (#98) Ford 27 35 58 $113,306
Scott Speed (#82) Toyota 2 36 55 $94,773
Jeff Burton (#31) Chevrolet 23 37 52 $129,281
Sam Hornish Jr (#77) Dodge 16 38 49 $101,010
Mike Skinner (#36) Toyota 39 39 46 $82,050
Mike Bliss (#09) Chevrolet 26 40 43 $81,830
Joe Nemechek (#87) Toyota 31 41 40 $81,605
David Gilliland (#71) Chevrolet 43 42 37 $81,435
Dave Blaney (#66) Toyota 18 43 34 $81,703
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