UAW-DODGE 400 FACT SHEET

What: UAW-Dodge 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event

Where: Las Vegas Motor Speedway (1.5-mile tri-oval)

When: Sunday, March 2, 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time

Distance: 400 miles, 267 laps

Purse: $6,459,779

Field: 43 cars. Top 35 from 2007 owner points, seven on qualifying speed and one past champion’s provisional.

TV: FOX (Locally KVVU Channel 5)

Radio: PRN (Locally on KCYE 104.3 FM)

Qualifying record: Kasey Kahne (184.856 mph, 29.212 seconds) 2007

Race record: Mark Martin (146.530 mph) 1998

Last winner: Jimmie Johnson

Top 5 in 2007: 1, Johnson; 2, J. Gordon; 3, Hamlin; 4, Kenseth; 5, Martin.

Previous winners: Mark Martin (1998), Jeff Burton (1999, 2000), Jeff Gordon (2001), Sterling Marlin (2002), Matt Kenseth (2003, 2004), Jimmie Johnson (2005, 2006, 2007)

Previous pole-sitters: Dale Jarrett (1998, 2001), Bobby Labonte (1999, 2003), Ricky Rudd (2000), Todd Bodine (2002), Kasey Kahne (2004, 2007), Ryan Newman (2005), Greg Biffle (2006).

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• Only seven drivers have competed in all 10 NASCAR Sprint Cup events at LVMS. They are Jeff Gordon, Dale Jarrett, Sterling Marlin, Jeff Burton, Mark Martin, Bobby Labonte and Joe Nemechek.

• No driver has ever won the UAW-Dodge 400 from the pole position.

• Jimmie Johnson is the only driver to start in the top five and win. He won from the third starting spot in 2006.

• Jack Roush has posted wins at LVMS with three different drivers (Martin, J. Burton and Kenseth).

• Chip Ganassi, who won with Sterling Marlin in 2002, is the only car owner other than Roush or Hendrick to win at LVMS.

• Jeff Burton (2000) is the only driver to sweep both the Sprint Cup and Nationwide races at LVMS.

• Jeff Burton also is the only driver running at the finish of every Sprint Cup event at LVMS.

• Juan Pablo Montoya used LVMS as his test track before winning the 2000 Indianapolis 500.

• Both Sam Hornish Jr. and Patrick Carpentier will be making their first stock-car starts at LVMS. Hornish competed at LVMS in the IRL in 1999 and 2000, while Carpentier competed in Champ Car races in 2004 and 2005.

• Carpentier is the only current Las Vegas resident competing in the Sprint Cup Series. Brothers Kurt and Kyle Busch were born in Las Vegas but now reside in North Carolina.

• There will be three former Indy 500 winners in the race (Dario Franchitti, Juan Pablo Montoya and Hornish).

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