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Date: Friday, July 5
Start Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
Site: Daytona International Speedway -- Daytona Beach, Fla.
Track: 2.5-mile tri-oval
Laps: 100
Miles: 250
Capacity: 146,000 (Grandstand Seating)
Total purse:
Payouts:
Year: 12th
On TV: ESPN
Announcers:
On Radio: Motor Racing Network (MRN)/SIRIUS NASCAR Radio
Race record:
Qualifying record: Tommy Houston, 1987 (194.389 mph)
2012 Finish
Defending champion: Kurt Busch
Runner up: Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Pole winner: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (177.253 mph)
Top 10:
1. Kurt Busch (Start: 5)
2. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (1)
3. Michael Annett (17)
4. Austin Dillon (42)
5. Joey Logano (8)
6. Elliott Sadler (13)
7. Justin Allgaier (21)
8. Mike Bliss (15)
9. Timmy Hill (37)
10. Sam Hornish Jr. (16)
Average speed: 132.045 mph
Time of race: 1 hr., 54 mins., 44 secs.
Margin of victory: 0.054 secs.
Caution flags: 6 for 24 laps
Lead changes: 41 among 16 drivers
Past winners
2012 Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 132.045 mph
2011 Joey Logano, Toyota, 136.426 mph
2010 Dale Earnhardt Jr, Chevrolet, 146.248 mph
2009 Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 122.924 mph
2008 Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 155.761 mph
2007 Kyle Busch, Chevrolet, 139.091 mph
2006 Dale Earnhardt Jr, Chevrolet, 133.343 mph
2005 Martin Truex Jr, Chevrolet, 140.141 mph
2004 Mike Wallace, Ford, 135.014 mph
2003 Dale Earnhardt Jr, Chevrolet, 153.715 mph
2002 Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet, 125.892 mph
Last race
Race: Feed the Children 300 (June 28)
Site: Kentucky Speedway -- Sparta, Ky.
Miles: 255 (rain-shortened)
Laps: 170
Finish line order: Brad Keselowski, Elliott Sadler, Matt Crafton, Brian Vickers, Kyle Busch
Time of Race: 1 hr., 56 mins., 39 secs.
Average speed: 131.163 mph
Margin of victory: Under Caution
Caution flags: 5 for 25 laps
Lead changes:
Lap leaders: Dillon 1-18, K. Busch 19-49, Hornish Jr 50, Crafton 51-54, K. Dillon 1-18, K. Busch 19-49, Hornish Jr 50, Crafton 51-54, K. Busch 55-93, Keselowski 94, K. Busch 95-98, Keselowski 99-113, Swindell 114, Keselowski 115-142, Crafton 143-146, Sadler 147-155, Keselowski 156-170.
Entry list
#00 Blake Koch (West Palm Beach, FL) Toyota/TBA
#01 Mike Wallace (St. Louis, MO) Chevrolet/Brooklyn Products Int'l
#1 * Kurt Busch (Las Vegas, NV) Chevrolet/Phoenix Construction
#2 Brian Scott (Boise, ID) Chevrolet/Rain-X
#3 Austin Dillon (Welcome, NC) Chevrolet/AdvoCare
#4 Landon Cassill (Fairfax, IA) Chevrolet/Flex Seal
#5 Brad Sweet (Grass Valley, CA) Chevrolet/Great Clips
#6 Trevor Bayne (Knoxville, TN) Ford/Cargill/Winn-Dixie
#7 Regan Smith (Cato, NY) Chevrolet/Hellmann's
#10 Jeff Green (Owensboro, KY) Toyota/TriStar Motorsports
#11 Elliott Sadler (Emporia, VA) Toyota/Sports Clips
#12 Sam Hornish Jr. (Defiance, OH) Ford/PPG
#14 Eric McClure (Chilhowie, VA) Toyota/Hefty/Reynolds Wrap
#18 Matt Kenseth (Cambridge, WI) Toyota/Game Stop
#19 Mike Bliss (Milwaukie, OR) Toyota/TriStar Motorsports
#20 Brian Vickers (Thomasville, NC) Toyota/Dollar General
#22 Joey Logano (Middletown, CT) Ford/Discount Tire
#23 Robert Richardson Jr. (McKinney, TX) Chevrolet/North Texas Pipe
#24 Jason White (Richmond, VA) Toyota/JW Demolition
#30 Nelson Piquet Jr. (Brasilia, Brazil) Chevrolet/Worx
#31 Justin Allgaier (Riverton, IL) Chevrolet/Brandt
#32 Kyle Larson (Elk Grove, CA) Chevrolet/Clorox
#33 Ty Dillon (Welcome, NC) Chevrolet/Hunt Brothers
#34 James Buescher (Plano, TX) Chevrolet/Wolfpack Energy Services
#40 Reed Sorenson (Peachtree City, GA) Chevrolet/E-Swisher.com
#42 Josh Wise (Riverside, CA) Chevrolet/Curtis Key Plumbing
#43 Michael Annett (Des Moines, IA) Ford/Flying J Travel Plaza
#44 Cole Whitt (Alpine, CA) Toyota/Moen
#51 Jeremy Clements (Spartanburg, SC) Chevrolet/TBA
#52 Joey Gase (Cedar Rapids, IA) Chevrolet/Donate Life
#54 Kyle Busch (Las Vegas, NV) Toyota/Monster Energy
#55 Jamie Dick (Albuquerque, NM) Chevrolet/Viva Auto Group
#60 Travis Pastrana (Annapolis, MD) Ford/Roush Fenway Racing/Race Trac
#70 Tony Raines (LaPorte, IN) Toyota/TBA
#74 Mike Harmon (Birmingport, AL) Dodge/TBA
#77 Parker Kligerman (Westport, CT) Toyota/Bandit Chippers
#79 Jeffrey Earnhardt (Mooresville, NC) Ford/Tobacco Free Florida
#85 Bobby Gerhart (Lebanon, PA) Chevrolet/Lucas Oil
#87 Joe Nemechek (Lakeland, FL) Chevrolet/TBA
#89 Morgan Shepherd (Ferguson, NC) Dodge/TBA
#92 Dexter Stacey (Kahnawake, Canada) Ford/Maddie's Place
#98 Kevin Swindell (Germantown, TN) Ford/Mike Curb Records
#99 Alex Bowman (Tucson, AZ) Toyota/TBA
Leading contenders
| Name | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kurt Busch | Won | ||||||||
| Michael Annett | 35 | 12 | 6 | 3 | |||||
| Austin Dillon | 4 | ||||||||
| Joey Logano | 4 | 2 | Won | 5 | |||||
| Elliott Sadler | 8 | 6 | |||||||
| Justin Allgaier | 8 | 17 | 5 | 7 | |||||
| Sam Hornish Jr | 10 | ||||||||
| Kyle Busch | 11 | 27 | 16 | Won | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 23 |
| Brian Scott | 30 | 12 | 32 | ||||||
| James Buescher | 34 | ||||||||
| Mike Wallace | Won | 8 | 7 | 15 | 22 | 34 | 15 | 36 | |
| Matt Kenseth | 14 | ||||||||
| Regan Smith | 19 | 15 | 29 | ||||||
| Brian Vickers | 31 | 2 | 13 | 37 | 7 | ||||
| Trevor Bayne | 27 | 22 | |||||||
| Kyle Larson |
Notes
There have been 43 Nationwide races held at Daytona, including one event per season from 1982-2001 and two each year since then. The series' season-opener has been held at this racetrack each year since '82.
Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt share the record for most Nationwide victories at Daytona with seven each. Stewart moved into a tie with Earnhardt when he won there in February.
Earnhardt won the inaugural Nationwide race at Daytona, the Goody's 300, on Feb. 13, 1982.
Joe Nemechek has won the pole for five Nationwide races at Daytona, which is more than any other driver. Nemechek won the first July Nationwide event at Daytona from that position in 2002. Clint Bowyer is the last driver to win a race from the pole at this track, doing so in July 2009.
Since NASCAR began using electronic timing and scoring in 1993, the closest margin of victory in a Nationwide race at Daytona occurred on Feb. 19, 2011. Stewart nipped Bowyer to the finish line by only 0.007 seconds. The largest margin of victory for a Nationwide event there happened on Feb. 17 2007 when Kevin Harvick beat Dave Blaney to the line by just 0.460 seconds.
James Buescher is the only driver on the entry list for this race that scored his first career Nationwide victory at Daytona. Buescher, who is a regular in the Camping World Truck Series, won the February 2012 Nationwide race there.
Three drivers entered made their series debuts at Daytona: Tony Raines (1999), Robert Richardson Jr. (2007) and Kyle Larson (2013).
The next race is the July 13 New England 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Brad Keselowski won last year's event there.
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