Roush Fenway Racing
Phoenix International Raceway, Apr. 20-21
NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series: Subway Fresh Fit 500
Saturday Apr. 21
8:00 PM Eastern on FOX/MRN
David Ragan - No. 6 AAA Ford Fusion
Greg Biffle – No. 16 Ameriquest Ford Fusion
Matt Kenseth – No. 17 DEWALT Ford Fusion
Jamie McMurray – No. 26 Crown Royal Ford Fusion
Carl Edwards – No. 99 Office Depot Ford Fusion
NASCAR Busch Series: Bashas’ Supermarkets 200
David Ragan – No. 6 Discount Tire Ford Fusion
Todd Kluever – No. 16 3M Ford Fusion
Matt Kenseth – No. 17 iLevel by Weyerhaeuser Ford Fusion
Jamie McMurray – No. 26 Dish Network Ford Fusion
Carl Edwards – No. 60 World Financial Group Ford Fusion
Roush Fenway Racing Fast Facts
* David Ragan has competed at Phoenix International Raceway in November of 2006 in the Craftsman Truck Series. He started 20th and finished 17th.
* Ragan is currently 24th in the Nextel Cup Championship point standings.
* Ragan is also currently 2nd in the Raybestos Rookie of the Year race, trailing Montoya by four points.
* The Subway Fresh Fit 500 will be the third Car of Tomorrow race of the 2007 season. There will be a total of sixteen COT races during the 2007 season.
* Ragan finished 26th and 15th in the COT races at Bristol and Martinsville, respectively.
* In last year’s spring race at Phoenix, Greg Biffle led 151 laps and was running second when he ran short on fuel and had to pit before eventually finishing 15th.
* Biffle has two wins and five top-five NASCAR Busch Series finishes as well as one win and two top-five’s in the Craftsman Truck Series at Phoenix International Raceway.
* Biffle finished sixth last week at Texas and currently sits 17th in the point standings, 398 points out of the lead and 41 points out of the top 12.
* This weekend Biffle will run the black and gold Ameriquest paint scheme.
* Matt Kenseth’s second-place finish at Texas marked his 70th career top five and 125th career top-10 finish. In 263 career Cup starts, Kenseth has finished in the top five 26.6% of the time and finished in the top 10, 47.5% of the time.
* Kenseth’s Busch Series win at Texas moves him into sixth on the all-time series’ win list with 23; one behind Jeff Burton and Tommy Houston.
* Kenseth’s average finish of 8.3 is currently third best among drivers who have competed in all seven Cup events in 2007.
* In the past six Cup races, Kenseth has picked up a total of 127 positions from where he started to where he finished, or an average of 21.1 spots per race. * Kenseth has completed every lap in Cup so far in 2007, one of only three drivers to do so (Jeff Gordon, Jeff Burton).
* Despite notching a win in 2002 at PIR, Kenseth’s average finish at the track is just 19.9; which ranks 18th out of 23 tracks where he’s competed at in the Cup Series.
* Kenseth will be racing the No. 17 iLevel Ford Fusion in the NASCAR Busch Series on Saturday. For his career, Kenseth has notched one win and six top-ten finishes in eight starts in the Busch Series at Phoenix. Kenseth’s first Busch Series pole and first Busch Series win at PIR came last November.
* Over the last four races, Jamie McMurray has moved up 24 positions to 12th place in the NEXTEL Cup point standings.
* In six visits to the 1.5-mile Phoenix International Raceway, McMurray has posted three top-10 finishes. The best finish came in April 2005, where McMurray finished second.
* The No. 26 team will be taking the same car that ran 15th at Atlanta Motor Speedway and 10th at Las Vegas Motor Speedway earlier this season.
* In his last four runs, McMurray has posted four top-15 finishes in a row. Three of those finishes resulted in top-10’s for the No. 26 team.
* McMurray will carry a special hood decal this weekend at Texas. Chad Provo, 35, of Terrell, Texas, will have his name front and center on the No. 26 hood after winning a statewide sweepstakes conducted by Crown Royal for their promotion, “Your Name Here 400. “
* After seven races, Carl Edwards and the No. 99 Office Depot team are currently eighth in the overall point standings with 837 points, 299 points behind leader, Jeff Gordon
* This weekend, the Davis Dawgs, a sales team from Office Depot’s Business Solutions Division, will be featured on the No. 99 car in Phoenix. The Dawgs earned this honor by achieving the highest sales penetration increase for Office Depot private brand products during the first quarter
* In five NNCS starts at Phoenix International Raceway, Edwards has earned two top-five and four top-10 finishes.
* The No. 99 Office Depot team will be unloading car RK-464, a brand new race car
* Catch Carl and the No. 99 Office Depot team on DirecTV’s HotPass programming. Check DirecTV listings for subscription information
Roush Fenway Racing at Phoenix International Raceway
Current Roush Fenway Racing Drivers in the NEXTEL Cup Series at Phoenix International Raceway
Driver Starts Wins Top-5’s Top-10’s Poles
David Ragan 0 0 0 0 0
Greg Biffle 6 0 1 1 0
Matt Kenseth 9 1 3 4 0
Jamie McMurray 7 0 0 0 0
Carl Edwards 5 0 2 4 0
Totals 27 1 6 9 0
Current Roush Fenway Racing Drivers in the Busch Series at Phoenix International Raceway
Driver Starts Wins Top-5’s Top-10’s Poles
David Ragan 0 0 0 0 0
Todd Kluever 2 0 0 0 0
Matt Kenseth 8 1 2 6 1
Jamie McMurray 8 1 1 2 0
Carl Edwards 4 1 3 4 1
Totals 22 3 6 12 2
All-time Nextel Cup Series Records for Roush Fenway Racing at Phoenix International Raceway
Starts Wins Top-5’s Top-10’s Poles
72 5 22 36 0
Roush Fenway Racing Current Point Standings
NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series
Driver Points Behind Starts Poles Wins Top-5’s Top-10’s
3. Matt Kenseth 1011 -125 7 0 1 4 5
8. Carl Edwards 837 -299 7 0 0 0 2
10. Jamie McMurray 805 -331 7 0 0 1 4
17. Greg Biffle 738 -398 7 0 0 1 2
24. David Ragan 635 -501 7 0 0 1 1
NASCAR Busch Series
Driver Points Behind Starts Poles Wins Top-5’s Top-10’s
1. Carl Edwards 1370 - 8 0 2 7 8
6. Matt Kenseth 873 -497 6 0 2 3 4
10. David Ragan 802 -568 8 1 0 1 1
19. Greg Biffle 690 -680 7 0 0 1 3
26. Todd Kluever 571 -799 5 0 0 0 0
33. Jamie McMurray 469 -901 5 0 0 0 0
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
Team/Driver Points Behind Starts Poles Wins Top-5’s Top-10’s
9. Travis Kvapil 529 -216 4 0 0 1 1
12. Erik Darnell 456 -289 4 0 0 0 0
33. T. J. Bell 179 -566 2 0 0 0 0
NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series: Subway Fresh Fit 500
Saturday Apr. 21
8:00 PM Eastern on FOX/MRN
David Ragan
Team: No. 6 AAA Ford Fusion
Crew Chief: Jimmy Fennig
Chassis: Primary: RK-459 Brand new car
Back up: RK-467 Brand new, tested at Richmond
Ragan, NNCS at Phoenix International Raceway:
-No Prior Starts
Ragan on racing NNCS at Phoenix International Raceway
“I am looking forward to running the Car of Tomorrow at Phoenix. This is only the third racetrack that we have taken these new cars to this year and it is the first track that is more than a half-mile or so. I raced at Phoenix in the trucks last year so I have some familiarity with the track and we are taking some brand new race cars so I think we definitely have everything we need to go out and have a good day. The Cup Series had a weekend off over Easter, which was nice for all the guys to be able to spend some time with their families, but I don’t feel like we have lost any momentum since I ran the Busch car in Nashville last weekend. I definitely want to put on a good show for AAA and all of the 50 million AAA members out there so I hope you will all be watching and cheering us on. ”
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