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Las Vegas Motor Speedway Advance Notes
Race: UAW-Dodge 400 on Sunday, March 2 (NSCS)
Sam's Town 300 on Saturday, March 1 (NNS)
Track: Las Vegas Motor Speedway (1.5 miles)
Location: Las Vegas, Nev.
NOTES
Dario Franchitti and No. 40 Target Dodge Team (NSCS) and No. 40 Fastenal Dodge Team (NNS)
So You're Sayin' There's a Chance!: According to the Sports Book at the Luxor Las Vegas where the Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (CGRFS) team is staying this weekend, Franchitti's odds to win the UAW-Dodge 400 are 100-1. The odds on his CGRFS teammates Reed Sorenson and Juan Pablo Montoya to win are both 60-1.
Record Miles for Franchitti: Last weekend's rain-delayed weekend resulted in two qualifying washouts and a partial double header for Franchitti, which included the finish of the NSCS event and a full NNS race [totaling 624 miles] - the most laps he's ever driven in one day.
In a Class of His Own: In the past 11 months, Franchitti became the first driver to ever capture the 12 Hours of Sebring, the Indianapolis 500, an open wheel title and the Rolex 24 At Daytona consecutively. Mario Andretti and A.J. Foyt are the only others to win the four titles, but neither did so in succession.
CHASSIS INFO
No. 40 Target Dodge (NSCS): Chassis #819. No previous starts, not tested at Las Vegas earlier this year.
No. 41 Target Dodge (NSCS): Chassis #806. No previous starts, tested at Las Vegas.
No. 42 Texaco/Havoline (NSCS): Crew Chief Donnie Wingo is bringing chassis #802 for the UAW-Dodge 400. This is the chassis the team tested with at Las Vegas during the preseason and posted the fastest lap of the test.
No. 40 Fastenal Dodge (NNS): The No. 40 Fastenal team and Dario Franchitti are entering chassis #653 in NNS competition for the second week in a row. It is the same car the Fastenal team ran at Auto Club Speedway this past Monday, when Franchitti raced up inside the top five and maintained a top-15 run the majority of the day until a bad vibration seemed to derail his effort during the last quarter of the race (started 22nd, finished 24th). The car was entered at Texas Motor Speedway toward the end of last season when Bryan Clauson earned a 2007 season best 10th-place start and then worked to overcome two setbacks that sent him and team into an unrecoverable lap deficit to finish 28th. It is also the same chassis Juan Pablo Montoya raced in early 2007, when he collected an impressive top-10 start and finish at Atlanta Motor Speedway in the NNS March race (started 10th, finished eighth).
No. 41 Energizer® e2® Lithium (NNS): Krisiloff will pilot chassis #752 in Nevada this weekend. The car most recently carried CGRFS development driver Kevin Hamlin to a career-best seventh-place finish (started 13th) at Gateway International Raceway last July. Before that, in early April, David Stremme used the same car at Nashville Superspeedway to break the track qualifying record en route to his career-second NASCAR pole position. He then topped it off with a top-15 finish—11th place.
2008 STATS
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Starts Wins Poles Top 5s Top 10s Ave Start Ave Finish Pts. Pos./(Prev)
Dario Franchitti 2 0 0 0 0 33 32.5 35/(33)
Reed Sorenson 2 0 0 1 1 14 21 17/(5)
Juan Pablo Montoya 2 0 0 0 0 18 26 27/(32)
NASCAR Nationwide Series
Starts Wins Poles Top 5s Top 10s Ave Start Ave Finish Pts. Pos./(Prev)
Dario Franchitti 1 0 0 0 0 4 20 20/( - )
Kyle Krisiloff 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ( - )
CAREER STATS
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Starts Wins Poles Top 5s Top 10s Ave Start Ave Finish
Dario Franchitti 2 0 0 0 0 33 32.5
Reed Sorenson 76 0 1 5 12 24.5 23.9
Juan Pablo Montoya 39 1 0 3 6 21.5 23.1
NASCAR Nationwide Series
Starts Wins Poles Top 5s Top 10s Ave Start Ave Finish
Dario Franchitti 6 0 0 0 0 12.5 28.2
Kyle Krisiloff 38 0 0 1 2 32.3 28.3
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