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Track:
Phoenix Raceway
Race Sponsor:
Subway
Distance:
312 Miles
Laps:
312 Laps
Phoenix International Raceway is a one-mile track that runs races twice a year. Phoenix still insists calling their races “500’s” even though the race is just 312 miles. Pesky metric system.
It’s also a pesky time to have the race. NASCAR start times have been all over the map. Drivers have raced in the day, night and day into night. This time, it’s a straight day race. Still, teams are exhausted from Daytona and running a totally new setup unlike anything they had the week before. Think more Bristol and Martinsville.
The track also has a new surface. Cars tend to be loose because of the weather, which is warm because this is Phoenix and all. Couple that with different bakning across the track and you have a recipe for fun Sunday on FOX.
Phoenix is also known to have several long runs under green, which might be nice after Daytona. Now some random facts to impress your friends with this Sunday, thanks to the track’s web site.
- Jimmie Johnson has the best average finish at Phoenix and has won here four times.
- Mark Martin has the second-best average finish, followed by Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin round out the top five.
- Martin, Jeff Burton, Kevin Harvick and Dale Earnhardt Jr. have won twice here.
- Gordon is the defending race winner.
- Kasey Kahne won in the fall.
- The banking in turns one and two is eleven degrees. The banking in turns three and four is nine degrees.
- The banking in the frontstretch is three degrees. On the backstretch, it's nine degrees.
- The frontstretch is 1,179 feet, and the backstretch is 1,551 feet
- Arizona law prohibits fans from bringing alcohol to the track.
- They do have a SPEED Cantina, which apparently serves Diet Coke.
- They also have a wine area outside Turn 4.
- The track also won’t let you bring umbrellas to the track. It’s Phoenix.
- They have a weather policy in case rain delays things in the desert.
- Candlebox is performing race weekend.
- I didn't know Candlebox was around either.
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