A Look Back at the …
Lenox Industrial Tools 301 from New Hampshire Motor Speedway

Winner: Joey Logano
Time of Race:  2 hours, 57 minutes, 45 seconds
Average Speed: 97.497 mph
Margin of Victory:  Under caution
Caution Flags:  11 cautions for 47 laps.
Lap Leaders: 21 lead changes among 14 drivers: Stewart-pole; J. Gordon 1-6; Ku. Busch 7-19; J. Gordon 20-31; Ku. Busch 32-46; J. Gordon 47; Sadler 48; J. Gordon 49; Johnson 50-122; J. Gordon 123; Montoya 124-129; Hamlin 130; Sorenson 131; R. Gordon 132; Johnson 133-152; J. Gordon 153-195; Stewart 196-235; Martin 236; Biffle 237; Labonte 238-246; Newman 247-263; Logano 264-273.

Post-Race Quotes

“Growing up he [Jeff Gordon] was one of my favorite racecar drivers, so to have him come into your door and congratulate you like that, that was really cool.  [David] Reutimann came up to me and says, “I found it's best not to leave your car.” He went through the same situation not too long ago. We were laughing about that, so it's cool to see those guys come up to [congratulate] you.”

— Joey Logano in the post-race interview, talking about drivers congratulating him on pit road after the event had been red flagged, but before it had officially been called.
   
“We probably could have gone four to six more laps [on that tank of fuel under caution]. We would have had to have made a decision somewhere around four to five [laps]. We were close to running out and depending where you are at on the racetrack and the situation we were in, we basically [were] going to stay out until we ran out of fuel. There weren't many cars, you know what I mean, we were going to end up there, anyway, so we were going to ride it out.”

— Logano’s crew chief, Greg Zipadelli, on the team’s fuel strategy when the race went under caution.

“Today, a lot of bad things happened, but I think what Zippy has done a great job of is guiding the team. Nobody on that group gets down. I mentioned the fact that they are used to running for a championship. This year they are working with Joey, a real young guy; they have been, I think, just great. I take great pride in that, and that's really been going on for about the last eight races.”

— Car owner Joe Gibbs, on the progression of the No. 20 team with Logano behind the wheel.

“He was shutting the engine off and not keeping up with the pace car. I was just running pace car speed and it allowed me to get to the outside of him and make him start his engine and use some fuel and he didn't like that. So he moved up, so I couldn't get to the outside so I just went to the inside. 

“I didn't want to push him, and I didn't want to back off, because that was our only shot was for him to run out of fuel. You know, he did exactly what he needed to do.”

— Second-place finisher Jeff Gordon, on why he lined up next to Logano as the field circled the track under the final yellow as opposed to staying behind him.

New Hampshire Notes

Joey Logano won the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 from New Hampshire Motor Speedway, his first career Cup win. Logano becomes the youngest winner in Cup competition at 19 years, one month and four days. He is the 177th winner in Grand National/Cup history.

Logano currently sits 21st in the point standings and leads the Raybestos Rookie of the Year battle.

Logano’s win in the No. 20 Home Depot Toyota was the first for the team since last October’s AMP Energy 500 at Talladega Superspeedway.

Jeff Gordon (second) posted his 16th top-10 finish at Loudon in 29 starts. It was his ninth top 5 and 12th top 10 of the 2009 season.

Kurt Busch (third) earned his eighth top-10 run at Loudon in 17 starts. It was his ninth top 10 of the 2009 season.

Tony Stewart leads the championship standings by 69 points over Jeff Gordon.

A Look Ahead to the …
Coke Zero 400 from Daytona International Speedway

Track Specs: 2.5-mile tri-oval; Banking/Turns: 31 degrees; Banking/Tri-oval: 18 degrees; Banking/Backstretch: 3 degrees
2008 Winners: Ryan Newman (February), Kyle Busch (July)
2009 Winner: Matt Kenseth (February)
Cup Practice Sessions: Thursday, July 2: 4:00-5:20 pm EST; Thursday, July 2: 6:35-8:00 pm EST. Both practice sessions will be broadcast live on SPEED TV.
Cup Qualifying: Friday, July 3: 4:10 pm EST (live on SPEED TV).
2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Coke Zero 400: Saturday, July 4: 8:20 pm EST (coverage begins at 4:30 pm EST on SPEED TV and continues on TNT at 6:30 pm EST).

Daytona International Speedway Facts

Point Races: 124
Race Winners: 54
Most All-Time Wins: Richard Petty (10)

Daytona International Speedway has hosted 124 Cup points-races since 1959 when Bob Welborn won the first event at the track, a Daytona 500 Qualifier, which at the time was a points-paying event. Lee Petty won the actual Daytona 500 that year, run two days after the Qualifier. Initially, Johnny Beauchamp was flagged the winner over Lee Petty in a photo finish. However, after three days of studying photos, Bill France Sr. reversed the decision, giving the win to Petty. Lee’s son, Richard, made his first career start driving a car numbered 43 in NASCAR competition during the race.

There have been 54 different Cup winners at Daytona. 23 drivers have won from the pole — most recently Tony Stewart in July 2005. Matt Kenseth, the 2009 Daytona 500 winner, qualified 39th, marking the deepest in the field any winner has ever started.

Richard Petty has recorded the most wins in Daytona points-paying races (10). Cale Yarborough has nine wins at the track while David Pearson has eight. Fireball Roberts won seven events and Jeff Gordon and Bobby Allison each have six Daytona wins to their credit. Petty also owns the most top 5s (28) and top 10s (37) of any driver. He made 74 starts, also an all-time mark.

Cale Yarborough owns 12 pole positions at Daytona, most of any driver. Jeff Gordon has recorded the most poles (3) of any active, full-time driver.

Among active, full-time drivers, Gordon has the most wins (6), followed by Michael Waltrip (3). Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Tony Stewart are the only others with multiple wins (2).

Gordon and Mark Martin lead all active, full-time participants with 17 career top 10s at Daytona.

Clint Bowyer leads all active, full-time drivers with an 11.1-place average finish at Daytona (minimum seven starts).

Bill Elliott holds the track qualifying record of 210.364 mph set in February 1987. Paul Menard (185.916 mph) is the event’s defending pole winner.

Kyle Busch is the defending winner of the race, which ended under caution. Busch passed Carl Edwards on the backstretch seconds before a caution flag flew during a green-white-checker finish to end the event. Matt Kenseth, Kurt Busch and David Ragan rounded out the top 5.

Matt Kenseth won the 2009 Daytona 500 in a race that was shortened to 152 laps due to rain. Kenseth, Kevin Harvick, AJ Allmendinger, Clint Bowyer and Elliott Sadler comprised the top 5.

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