Post by HDT05 on Jul 6, 2012 22:32:34 GMT 10
Coke Zero 400
NASCAR Sprint Cup Race #18 of 36 for the 2012 season
Race Analysis
Track Length: 2.5-mile Tri-Oval - Speedway
Race Length: 400 Miles/ 160 laps
Pit Road Speed: 55 mph
Estimated Pit Window: 46-50 Laps
Defending Winner: David Ragan - Started 5th
2012 Sprint Cup Driver Championship Points Standings:
[after Kentucky, race 17 of 36]
1) #17-Matt Kenseth [1 win], 633
2) #88-Dale Earnhardt Jr. [1 win], 622, -11
3) #48-Jimmie Johnson [2 wins], 610, -23
4) #16-Greg Biffle [1 win], 608, -25
5) #11-Denny Hamlin [2 wins], 565, -68
6) #29-Kevin Harvick [0 wins], 565, -68
7) #15-Clint Bowyer [1 wins], 557, -76
8) #56-Martin Truex Jr. [0 wins], 556, -77
9) #14-Tony Stewart [2 wins], 545, -88
10) #2-Brad Keselowski [3 wins], 537, -96
Chase wild card drivers:
WC1) #18-Kyle Busch [1 win, 12th in points], 495, -138
WC2) #5-Kasey Kahne [1 win, 14th in points], 463, -170
#39-Ryan Newman [1 win, 15th in points], 463, -170
#20-Joey Logano [1 win, 16th in points], 463, -170
(ties broken by 1sts, 2nds, 3rd, etc)
See drivers championship points standings on the Drivers Points Standings (pdf).(6-30-2012)
jayski.com/stats/2012/pdfs/17ken2012points.pdf
Full championship points
jayski.com/stats/2012/pdfs/16son2012points.pdf
The Numbers for the Coke Zero 400:
0 - fewest cautions (seven times, most recent 2/18/62)
1 - fewest on lead lap at finish (eight times, most recent 2/15/76)
1 - fewest leaders (four times, most recent 2/22/63)
1 - fewest laps led by race winner (four times, most recent 7/2/94)
4 - drivers sweeping both races (Fireball Roberts, Cale Yarborough, LeeRoy Yarborough, and Bobby Allison
8 - races won from outside a top-20 starting position
10 - most wins (Richard Petty)
10 - number of jet dryers available for track drying
11 - fewest cars running at finish (7/4/63)
12 - most poles (Cale Yarborough)
15 - wins by car owner (Wood Brothers)
16 - most cautions (2/20/11)
20 - drivers with more than one pole
25 - most leaders (7/2/11)
26 - drivers with more than one win
34 - most cars on lead lap at finish (7/1/06)
39 - worst starting position for race winner (Matt Kenseth, 2/15/09)
41 - most cars running at finish (two times, most recent 7/2/94)
44 - wins from the front row; 25 from the pole
56 - different race winners
54 - different pole winners
60 - most caution laps (twice, most recent 2/20/11)
74 - most lead changes (2/20/11)
120 minutes - approximate amount of time it takes to dry the 2.5-mile track
184 - most laps led by race winner (Richard Petty 2/23/64)
Caution Update
1 - fewest cautions this season (Fontana)
5 - races extended beyond scheduled distance (Daytona, Martinsville, Talladega, Darlington and Sonoma)
10 - most cautions this season (Daytona)
94 - cautions in the first 17 races of 2012; includes 38 for accidents, 29 for debris and 11 for spins
503 of 5,027 - laps under caution in 2012
702.501 of 6,656.498 - miles under caution in the first 17 races
(Darnell Communications for SRT Motorsports and Dodge)(7-5-2012)
Daytona Goodyear Tire Notes: Teams in both the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series will run the same Goodyear tire codes at Daytona this week . . . this is the same combination of left- and right-side tires that teams in these two series have run at the last three races at Daytona, dating back to February 2011 . . . Sprint Cup and Nationwide teams have also run this same tire set-up at Talladega in 2011 and 2012 . . . this left-side tire code (D-4138) has been run at Talladega since 2009 . . . as on all NASCAR ovals greater than one mile in length, teams are required to run inner liners in all four tire positions at Daytona . . . air pressure in those inner liners should be 12-25 psi greater than that of the outer tire.(Goodyear), See tire codes. tire pressures and more on the Daytona Race Info page - Goodyear section.
jayski.com/news/races/2012/story/_/page/18-Daytona-NASCAR-Race-Info#goodyear
Race News:
Hamlin missed Thursday practices because of sore back: UPDATE: #11-Denny Hamlin will skip Sprint Cup practice Thursday because of a sore back. His JGR teammate, Joey Logano, will take Hamlin's car out Thursday, splitting time during the 4 p.m.-5:20 p.m. and 6:35 p.m.-8 p.m. ET sessions, which are the only practices scheduled for the Coke Zero 400 on Saturday. Drivers typically don't practice during both of the entire sessions because they want to make sure their engines are fresh and so they don't wreck their primary cars. JGR officials said Wednesday that they didn't expect to have a standby driver for Hamlin, who is fifth in the Cup standings and must start the race Saturday in order to earn the points for the event. Hamlin already has decided not to run the Nationwide Series race Friday.(Sporting News)(7-5-2012)
