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| NASCAR Coke Zero 400 Preview: Covering the Race From Start To Finish |
Kevin Harvick avoided a rash of accidents, including the "big one" that involved 19 drivers, and then held off Kasey Kahne and Jeff Gordon in a green- white-checkered finish to win the 2010 running of the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway. Harvick, currently second on the points list, won his second points-paying race at Daytona. His first win here came in the 2007 Daytona 500. He also won the pre-season Budweiser Shootout at Daytona earlier that year. It was a wild night of racing at Daytona last year, as the 400-mile event featured 47 lead changes among a record 18 different leaders. Seven of the nine cautions were for multi-car crashes, including the major pileup that occurred with 13 laps remaining. The start of the race was delayed by rain for one and a half hours, and it ended in the early hours of Sunday morning. Sam Hornish Jr. triggered a three-car wreck in the final laps, which set up the two-lap overtime finish. Harvick's Richard Childress Racing teammate, Clint Bowyer, grabbed the lead from Gordon prior to the caution. After the final restart, Harvick moved around Bowyer and took the top position between turns one and two. Kahne and Gordon also passed Bowyer, who got shuffled back in the field and spun around before finishing 17th. Harvick beat Kahne by 0.09 seconds to claim his second win of that season and the 13th of 17 career Sprint Cup titles. In defense of his title, Harvick will be making his 375th career Sprint Cup Series start. Bubba the Love Sponge has been named the Grand Marshal and honorary pace car driver for the Coke Zero 400 this weekend. Tony Stewart regained his winning form at Daytona, as he raced to victory in 2009 on the Fourth of July. Kyle Busch passed Stewart for the lead with less than two laps to go, but Stewart caught his former Joe Gibbs Racing teammate as they came out of the final turn on the last lap. As Stewart attempted to make a pass on the outside, Busch tried to block him, but his rear bumper hit Stewart's front end, as Busch spun around and slammed hard into the wall. Several other cars crashed in reaction to the incident, while Stewart crossed the finish line for the 35th of 39 Sprint Cup Series titles. With the win, Stewart became the first driver/owner to win multiple races in a season since Ricky Rudd in 1997. Stewart has won this race three times in the last six years. In 25 Sprint Cup races at Daytona International Speedway, Stewart has recorded 12 top-10 finishes. In the Nationwide Series, Stewart has added five titles and seven top-10's. After back-to-back runner-up finishes, Busch captured the Coke Zero 400 in 2008, as he defeated Carl Edwards under the caution. Busch led the final seven laps for the 10th of 21 Sprint Cup titles. Pole sitter Paul Menard led the first 19 laps, but finished 15th. In 2007, Jamie McMurray snapped Stewart's two-year run, as he defeated Kyle Busch by less than a second for his second career Sprint Cup title. McMurray reclaimed the lead on the final lap to post a 0.005 second victory. The final margin is tied for the second closest finish since NASCAR went to electronic timing. The closest finish was 0.002 seconds between Ricky Craven and Kurt Busch in March 2003 at Darlington. In 2005, pole sitter Stewart dominated this race, leading a whopping 151 of the 160 laps, as he defeated Jamie McMurray by less than a second. Stewart led for the first 103 laps, reclaimed the lead on lap 110 and after a brief respite by Kasey Kahne on lap 142, took the lead for good on lap 145 en route to his 21st career title. Jeff Gordon, who started on the pole in 2004, became a three-time Coke Zero 400 race winner, as he clipped teammate Jimmie Johnson by less than a second. Gordon is a three-time winner and pole sitter at this race, with his victory total now standing at 84. Gordon has posted six Sprint Cup wins at Daytona, but none since 2005. His next win will be his 85th, putting him alone in third on the all-time list. It would also give him more wins than any other driver during NASCAR's Modern Era (1972-Present), the period in the sport's history when the race-schedule was decreased. In July 2001, Dale Earnhardt Jr won this race in "Hollywood fashion" in his first return to Daytona after the tragic death of his father at the Daytona 500 in February of the same year. Prior to Stewart, David Pearson was the last driver to win back-to-back Coke Zero 400s (1972-74) and was a five-time winner of this race. Cale Yarborough leads all drivers with eight pole positions in the Coke Zero 400. Richard Petty was a 10-time winner at Daytona while among active drivers Jeff Gordon has six wins. Bill Elliott is also a five-time pole-sitter at Daytona. Petty recorded his 200th and final Sprint Cup title at Daytona, July 4, 1984. This track has some history behind it entering this race. Groundbreaking for Daytona International Speedway was on November 25, 1957, with the first Sprint Cup Series race, a 100-mile qualifying race for the Daytona 500 on Feb. 20, 1959. Lights were installed in the spring of 1998. However, the race was delayed until October that year due to thick smoke from wildfires. The second Daytona race has been held under lights ever since. There have been 128 Sprint Cup races at the Daytona International Speedway since the track hosted its first race in 1959: 53 have been 500 miles, 48 were 400 miles and four 250 miles. There were also 23 qualifier races that were point races (one in 1959; two from 1960-1971). A driver has swept both races at Daytona only four times, most recently by Bobby Allison in 1982. Bill Elliott won the 1988 summer race from 38th, the deepest in the field that a Daytona race winner has started. Tony Stewart has led 640 laps in 25 races at Daytona, placing him 1st on the active all-time laps led list and eighth overall. Dale Earnhardt is first with 1,286 laps led. Starting from the top-15 certainly has its rewards, as 116 of the 128 races have been won from these positions. 25 from the pole and 69 from the top five. There are just four tracks on the current Sprint Cup Series schedule that Mark Martin has never won on. Daytona leads the way, as Martin is 0-for-52, followed by Pocono (49 attempts), Indianapolis (17) and Homestead (12). In each instance, Martin's best finish at those tracks is second, including six runner-up finishes at Pocono. The next Sprint Cup Series race is the July 9th inaugural running of the Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway. Here are the results from the race from a year ago. Defending champion: Kevin Harvick Runner up: Kasey Kahne Pole winner: Kevin Harvick (2010 owner points) Top 10: 1. Kevin Harvick (Start: 1) 2. Kasey Kahne (20) 3. Jeff Gordon (5) 4. Dale Earnhardt Jr (13) 5. Jeff Burton (8) 6. Carl Edwards (12) 7. Kurt Busch (6) 8. Reed Sorenson (24) 9. Mike Bliss (35) 10. Scott Speed (27) The online sportsbook BetPheonix has all of the odds and wagering opportunities on the big event for the holiday weekend in auto racing. NASACR leads the way when it comes to exciting racing holiday events and the Coke Zero 400 is no different. Watch this big event over the weekend and wager at BetPhoenix! 
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This is the holiday weekend and nothing goes with July 4th better than NASCAR racing. This week the Coke Zero 400 will preview some of the best drivers in the country as they all try to win on the holiday weekend.
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