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1 5 Mark Martin, Batesville, AR GoDaddy.com Chevrolet 468.21252 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kannapolis, NC AMP Energy / National Guard Chevrolet 462.06253 48 Jimmie Johnson, El Cajon, CA Lowe’s Chevrolet 452.23754 9 Kasey Kahne, Enumclaw, WA Budweiser Ford 451.85005 29 Kevin Harvick, Bakersfield, CA Shell / Pennzoil Chevrolet 469.01256 14 Tony Stewart, Rushville, IN Office Depot / Old Spice Chevrolet 469.73757 18 Kyle Busch, Las Vegas, NV M&M’s Toyota 467.45008 42 Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombia Target Chevrolet 466.10009 33 Clint Bowyer, Emporia, KS Cheerios / Hamburger Helper Chevrolet 469.637510 2 Kurt Busch, Las Vegas, NV Miller Lite Dodge 451.825011 78 Regan Smith, Cato, NY Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet 452.262512 19 Elliott Sadler, Emporia, VA Stanley Ford 456.850013 1 Jamie McMurray, Joplin, MO Bass Pro Shops / Tracker Boats Chevrolet 466.687514 56 Martin Truex Jr., Mayetta, NJ NAPA Auto Parts Toyota 452.112515 43 AJ Allmendinger, Los Gatos, CA Best Buy Ford 461.625016 20 Joey Logano, Middletown, CT The Home Depot Toyota 462.525017 39 Ryan Newman, South Bend, IN U.S. Army Chevrolet 469.137518 47 Marcos Ambrose, Australia Kroger Floral Toyota 457.537519 6 David Ragan, Unadilla, GA UPS Ford 460.950020 00 David Reutimann, Zephyrhills, FL Aaron’s Dream Machine Toyota 463.212521 24 Jeff Gordon, Vallejo, CA DuPont Chevrolet 467.062522 83 Brian Vickers, Thomasville, NC Red Bull Toyota 451.612523 16 Greg Biffle, Vancouver, WA 3M Ford 468.450024 17 Matt Kenseth, Cambridge, WI Crown Royal Ford 458.475025 11 Denny Hamlin, Chesterfield, VA FedEx Express Toyota 467.475026 12 Brad Keselowski, Rochester Hills, MI Penske Racing Dodge 452.675027 99 Carl Edwards, Columbia, MO AFLAC Ford 466.275028 36 Mike Bliss, Milwaukie, OR Wave Energy Drink Chevrolet 461.662529 55 Michael McDowell, Phoenix, AZ PRISM Motorsports Toyota 467.437530 82 Scott Speed, Manteca, CA Red Bull Toyota 452.087531 13 Max Papis, Italy GEICO Toyota 452.987532 98 Paul Menard, Eau Claire, WI Peak / Menards Ford 468.525033 34 John Andretti, Indianapolis, IN Window World Cares Ford 467.112534 7 Robby Gordon, Bellflower, CA Monster Energy Drink Toyota 469.450035 37 Travis Kvapil, Janesville, WI ExtenZe Ford 463.312536 77 Sam Hornish Jr., Defiance, OH Mobil 1 Dodge 461.212537 38 Robert Richardson Jr., McKinney, TX Mahindra Tractors Ford 467.850038 26 Boris Said, Carlsbad, CA Window World Cares Ford 465.975039 31 Jeff Burton, South Boston, VA Caterpillar Chevrolet 468.575040 21 Bill Elliott, Dawsonville, GA Motorcraft / Quick Lane Tire & Auto Center Ford 452.200041 87 Joe Nemechek, Lakeland, FL NEMCO Motorsports Toyota 464.287542 71 Bobby Labonte, Corpus Christi, TX Taxslayer.com Chevrolet 453.662543 51 Michael Waltrip, Owensboro, KY NAPA Auto Parts Toyota 451.4375

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t aking the opportunity to drive the No. 5 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports has propelled Mark Martin

to a career rejuvenation. In 2010, he came up short of winning an elusive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship.

The revival has also given him a second chance to win another coveted prize that has eluded him during his illustrious racing career — a Harley J. Earl Trophy that comes with a Daytona 500 victory.

In his second season with Hendrick after nearly retiring two years ago, Martin has his sights set on snapping an 0-for-25 streak in the “Great American Race.” The driver of the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet won the Coors Light Pole Award for the season-opening event last Saturday, his first Daytona 500 pole and his first at Daytona International Speedway since 1989.

At 51, Martin is the oldest driver to win the Daytona 500 pole.

“I love getting records,” Martin said. “After being one of the youngest to get one, I’m still after it, and I’m so proud to be a part of the No. 5 team at Hendrick.

“As far as the Daytona 500 is concerned, we all know that every driver in NASCAR wants to win this race. I’ve been

blessed with such a tremendous career and it will still be complete even if I don’t win it. I’ve been here a lot of times. I’ve won an IROC race and a Bud Shootout, so that’s all. So, what do you think I’m going to be trying to do? I’m going to be trying to win me a race.”

In 2007, while driving a partial Sprint Cup Series schedule for team owner Bobby Ginn in the No. 01 Chevrolet, Martin nearly made history when he lost the Daytona 500 by .02 seconds to Kevin Harvick. It was the closest Martin has come to winning the “Great American Race” since 1995, when he finished third.

After starting second, he finished 16th in last year’s race, but came back to finish second to Jimmie Johnson in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.

Martin’s crew chief, Alan Gustafson, is a Daytona Beach native and has been coming to the Daytona 500 as a spectator and participant for nearly 30 years. He would love to both win his first Daytona 500 and give Martin his first Daytona 500 victory at the same time.

“For me, it’s a huge deal,” Gustafson said. “You’ve got an opportunity to put a well-engineered, fast car out there,

to run faster than anybody else in the biggest race of the year. If that wasn’t enough, I grew up about five miles from here, and I could hear these cars in my backyard when I was six years old.

“I came here for years and years — this place, the speed, the cars, and I watched the great crew chiefs like Dale Inman, Gary DeHart, Ray Evernham. Now that my hero (Martin) is driving the car, it makes

it that much sweeter to be in this situation. It’s really cool for me.”

There is no place that Martin would rather be today than at Daytona International Speedway, and nothing he would rather be doing than trying to win the Daytona 500.

“I’m so happy to be at the racetrack,” he said. “I’ve not regretted this opportunity with Hendrick one bit. I’m still very, very fortunate to be in the position I’m in.”

Information is tentative and subject to change.

Mark Martin put the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet on the pole for today’s Daytona 500.Getty Images

Rank Driver Points1 Jimmie Johnson 66522 Mark Martin 65113 Jeff Gordon 64734 Kurt Busch 64465 Denny Hamlin 63356 Tony Stewart 63097 Greg Biffle 62928 Juan Montoya 62529 Ryan Newman 617510 Kasey Kahne 612811 Carl Edwards 611812 Brian Vickers 592913 Kyle Busch 445714 Matt Kenseth 438915 Clint Bowyer 435916 David Reutimann 422117 Jeff Burton 402218 Marcos Ambrose 383019 Kevin Harvick 379620 * Joey Logano 379121 Casey Mears 375922 Jamie McMurray 360423 Martin Truex Jr. 350324 A.J. Allmendinger 347625 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 342226 Elliott Sadler 335027 David Ragan 325228 Sam Hornish Jr. 320329 Reed Sorenson 314730 Bobby Labonte 312831 Paul Menard 297932 David Stremme 291933 Michael Waltrip 283934 Robby Gordon 269935 * Scott Speed 2690* Raybestos Rookie of the Year Candidate

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Petty to DRiVe PaCe CaRRichard Petty will find himself in

a very familiar place Sunday afternoon, leading the field in the Daytona 500. Petty, who holds the NASCAR record with seven Daytona 500 victories, will pace all 43 cars to the green flag in the 52nd running of the “Great American Race” behind the wheel of a special edition 2011 Mustang GT, powered by Ford’s all-new 5.0-liter V-8 engine.

“There’s nothing like the Daytona 500. It’s one of the biggest races in the world and to be a part of it in this way is the next-best thing to actually being able to race,” Petty said.

GReeN-WHite-CHeCKeReD FiNiSHeS ReViSeDNASCAR has implemented a

revision to one of its race procedures, allowing a maximum of three restart attempts prior to the White Flag under NASCAR’s green-white-checkered flag finish. If the leader has taken the white flag and the caution flag is displayed, the field is frozen and the race will not be restarted. Previously, there was only one restart attempt.

“We want to do all we can to finish our races under green flag conditions — the fans want to see that and so do the competitors,” said Robin Pemberton, NASCAR vice president of competition.

tRG, RCR FoRM aLLiaNCeTRG Motorsports and Richard

Childress Racing have announced an alliance for the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season.

With this agreement, RCR will provide cars, chassis repairs and testing resources for TRG’s Sprint Cup Series operations. Since every second counts on the track, TRG will team with Stewart-Haas Racing for pit crew support to coordinate faster pit stops.

oDDS BoDe WeLL FoR HeNDRiCKThe last time Hendrick Motorsports

swept the front-row starting positions for the Daytona 500, a Hendrick driver — Darrell Waltrip — won the “Great American Race,” in 1989. Ken Schrader started from the pole and Waltrip started second.

Team owner Rick Hendrick is hoping for more of the same in the 52nd edition of the Daytona 500 today. Hendrick drivers Mark Martin and Dale Earnhardt Jr. will start first and second, respectively. On top of that, Hendrick driver Jimmie Johnson will start third.

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Motivation won’t be a factor for Matt Kenseth in today’s Daytona 500. He has plenty of reasons for wanting to celebrate in Gatorade Victory Lane.First and foremost, he wants to kick off the 2010 season the way he did a year ago — on a winning note. After scoring victories in the first two

races of last season, he went on to miss the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup for the first time in his career. It’s something that didn’t sit well with him during the off-season.

Secondly, he is looking to making a bit of history. If he wins the “Great American Race,” he’ll be the first driver to repeat as Daytona 500 champion since Sterling Marlin in 1995, and only the fourth to do so in history. Richard Petty won the race in consecutive years in 1972 and 1973, while Cale Yarborough won in 1983 and 1984.

Also, Kenseth would love to give his new sponsor, Crown Royal, a victory in their first race together.

“We tried to win the Daytona 500 for a long time, and we finally got one last year,” Kenseth said. “We’ve had a lot of good years down here where we actually ran pretty good. There was one year in particular where I thought we definitely had the car to win hands down and got crashed out.

“We’ve had some good cars, and we’ve had some opportunities to get the win and get good finishes down here, but never really did it until last year. It’s the biggest race of the year.”

Kenseth won the 2009 Daytona 500 when rain interrupted the race after 152 laps. He overcame adversity earlier in the week when his No. 17 Ford got caught up in an accident in the Gatorade Duels. He started from the back of the field in the 39th position.

When NASCAR decided to call the race 48 laps short of the finish, a feeling of relief and elation came over Kenseth.

“Nobody could have been happier. In these kinds of races, you never know what’s going to happen,” Kenseth said. “I felt good if we were going to go back to green because our car was really fast and we worked our way to the front. But, in a restrictor-plate race, you never know.

“You’ve got to be in the right place at the right time and you’ve got to be hooked up in the right draft, so you don’t know what is going to happen. I was pretty relieved, and pretty surprised and excited that we ended up winning it.”

After winning at Daytona and Auto Club Speedway to start the season, the No. 17 Roush Fenway Racing team went into a skid that saw it finish in the top 10 only once in its next eight races. Kenseth had made the Chase from 2004 to 2008, but finished 14th in the Sprint Cup Series standings in 2009.

“When we went to Las Vegas for the third race and the car broke down on the first lap and we finished last, that was really kind of a reality check for us,” Kenseth said. “It was really difficult from there on out. We could never really get anything to go exactly right.

“Hopefully, we’ve gotten a lot smarter. With this being the second year for me and crew chief Drew Blickensderfer to work together, we’ll improve on a lot of stuff and come out of the box stronger and make better decisions and get better finishes.”

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Sporting new colors on his No. 17 Ford, Matt Kenseth will look to win his second consecutive Daytona 500. Should he accomplish the feat, he’ll be the fourth driver in history to do so.Getty images

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5 Racers are at the mercy of the fates. A driver can’t do anything about a blown engine or a cut tire. All he can

do is put himself in position to take ad-vantage when racing’s random luck claims somebody else. Just as Petty did in 1979, when he went from third to first on the last lap after Cale Yarborough and Don-nie Allison crashed each other. Or Derrike Cope did in 1990 when he took the lead a mile from the end after Dale Earnhardt Sr. blew a tire. Or Matt Kenseth did last year, when the rains came after 152 laps in and made him the winner.

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Legendary racer Bobby allison waves the green flag to start last year’s Daytona 500. Chris Graythen | Getty images

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1 Stock car racing has never been for the meek. But the 52nd Daytona 500 could see the most aggressive

driving yet, thanks to NASCAR’s new po-lice-yourselves policy on bump-drafting. Last Saturday’s Budweiser Shootout pro-vided a glimpse of how the 500 is liable to play out. “In [driver] intros, there were guys saying, ‘Should we take it easy?’” said Kasey Kahne, driver of the No. 9 Ford. “But it was on from the time the green flag came out. I was getting hit and I was hitting cars.”

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4 Unlike Talladega, its sister plate track, Daytona is not just about horsepower. Winning is still a mat-

ter of getting your car to stick. That’s partly because the track offers less grip. (Daytona was last resurfaced in 1978, Talladega in 2006.) “Every year it wears out a little more,” says Dale Earnhardt Jr. “You’ll see a lot of close racing in the first 15 laps of a tire run, but after that you’re going to see a lot of guys sliding around, trying to hang on to their race cars.”

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three-wide action with Brian Vickers (83), Denny Hamlin (11) and Juan Pablo Montoya (42) was common during Saturday’s Budweiser Shootout. John Harrelson | Getty images for NaSCaR

3 Deciding which cars to draft with is tricky business. It’s not just about latch-ing onto the fastest cars and steering

clear of loose cannons. Drivers also have to factor things like team and manufacturer affil-iations into the equation, along with whether their own car works better up high or down low. And sometimes even the best drivers can get their signals crossed. In the first practice of 2010, Mark Martin and Denny Hamlin — not exactly a pair of reckless rookies — caused a six-car crash when each tried to yield to the other in traffic.

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2 This year’s larger restrictor plate has already paid obvious dividends. At times during the Budweiser

Shootout cars closed so quickly that they looked like they had “boost” buttons. “It sure felt like we were going pretty fast, compared to (the old plate),” said Shoo-tout winner Kevin Harvick. “I could be very aggressive with my race car. Even when the thing would get dead sideways, you could stay late in the gas. You could steer the thing and drive the car.” Never-theless, added Harvick, the Daytona 500 “is still going to be a handling race.”

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