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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 12th, 2008)
DRIVER MANUFACTURER START FINISH POINTS EARNINGS
Kyle Busch (#18) Toyota 1 1 195 $331,175
Jimmie Johnson (#48) Chevrolet 5 2 175 $251,086
Kevin Harvick (#29) Chevrolet 13 3 165 $219,436
Greg Biffle (#16) Ford 11 4 165 $153,550
Tony Stewart (#20) Toyota 12 5 160 $164,011
Brian Vickers (#84) Toyota 15 6 155 $119,875
Matt Kenseth (#17) Ford 9 7 151 $152,291
David Ragan (#6) Ford 14 8 142 $114,300
Martin Truex Jr. (#1) Chevrolet 19 9 143 $135,583
Ryan Newman (#12) Dodge 17 10 134 $143,400
Jeff Gordon (#24) Chevrolet 6 11 135 $146,811
Elliott Sadler (#19) Dodge 26 12 127 $124,870
A.J. Allmendinger (#10) Dodge 39 13 124 $95,525
David Reutimann (#44) Toyota 29 14 121 $95,700
Kasey Kahne (#9) Dodge 8 15 118 $125,241
Dale Earnhardt Jr. (#88) Chevrolet 2 16 115 $101,150
Mark Martin (#8) Chevrolet 16 17 112 $126,608
Juan Pablo Montoya (#42) Dodge 22 18 109 $119,658
Jeff Burton (#31) Chevrolet 3 19 106 $132,958
Scott Riggs (#66) Chevrolet 38 20 103 $115,958
Jamie McMurray (#26) Ford 24 21 100 $98,100
Clint Bowyer (#07) Chevrolet 10 22 97 $103,750
Dave Blaney (#22) Toyota 30 23 94 $105,558
J.J. Yeley (#96) Toyota 40 24 91 $96,050
Robby Gordon (#7) Dodge 31 25 88 $109,708
Paul Menard (#15) Chevrolet 27 26 85 $94,325
Jason Leffler (#38) Toyota 43 27 82 $82,725
Kurt Busch (#2) Dodge 18 28 84 $85,125
Bobby Labonte (#43) Dodge 20 29 76 $121,361
Patrick Carpentier (#10) Dodge 42 30 73 $83,675
Reed Sorenson (#41) Dodge 32 31 70 $108,689
Carl Edwards (#99) Ford 4 32 72 $128,700
Casey Mears (#5) Chevrolet 25 33 64 $100,025
Regan Smith (#01) Chevrolet 33 34 61 $88,875
Bill Elliott (#21) Ford 37 35 58 $98,995
Michael Waltrip (#55) Toyota 28 36 55 $92,108
Sam Hornish Jr (#77) Dodge 35 37 52 $125,800
Terry Labonte (#45) Dodge 36 38 49 $89,547
Joe Nemechek (#78) Chevrolet 41 39 46 $79,800
Denny Hamlin (#11) Toyota 7 40 43 $114,571
Travis Kvapil (#28) Ford 21 41 40 $106,594
David Gilliland (#38) Ford 23 42 37 $79,210
Michael McDowell (#47) Toyota 34 43 34 $79,377

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