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NASCAR NEXTEL CUP SERIES RACE No. 17 PEPSI 400 DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL 2.5 Mile Paved Tri-Oval 400 M - 160 L – Purse: $5,972,320 Bonus Money Fin St Car# Driver Team Laps Pts Pts Won Status 1 1 20 Tony
Stewart The
Home Depot Chevrolet 160 190 * 10 $368,261 Running 2 33 42 Jamie
McMurray Home123/Havoline Dodge 160 170 201,750 Running 3 39 8 Dale
Earnhardt Jr. Budweiser Chevrolet 160 165 207,108 Running 4 9 2 Rusty
Wallace Miller Lite Dodge 160 160 159,608 Running 5 13 88 Dale
Jarrett UPS Ford 160 160 * 5 157,683 Running 6 3 48 Jimmie
Johnson Lowe’s Chevrolet 160 150 156,416 Running 7 15 24 Jeff
Gordon DuPont/Pepsi
Chevrolet 160 146 151,361 Running 8 43 4 Mike
Wallace Lucas Oil Chevrolet 160 142 110,400 Running 9 38 17 Matt
Kenseth DeWalt Power Tools Ford 160 138 145,036 Running 10 40 49 Ken Schrader Schwan’s Home Service Dodge 160 134 99,075 Running 11 42 31 Jeff Burton Cingular Chevrolet 160 130 126,120 Running 12 31 19 Jeremy Mayfield Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge 160 127 122,545 Running 13 35 21 Ricky Rudd Motorcraft Genuine Parts
Ford 160 124 123,289 Running 14 27 12 Ryan Newman Alltel Dodge 160 121 135,341 Running 15 5 01 Joe Nemechek 16 19 9 Kasey Kahne Dodge Dealers/UAW Dodge 160 120 * 5 124,700 Running 17 20 09 Johnny Sauter Miccosukee
Resort Dodge 160 112 88,175 Running 18 8 11 Jason Leffler FedEx Express Chevrolet 160 114 * 5 91,050 Running 19 36 45 Kyle Petty Stars and Stripes G-P Dodge 160 106 106,358 Running 20 14 0 Mike Bliss Net Zero Best Buy Chevrolet 160 103 91,400 Running 21 6 38 Elliott Sadler M&M’s Ford 160 105 * 5 125,216 Running 22 37 40 23 25 77 # Travis
Kvapil Kodak/Jasper
Eng. & Trans. Dodge 160 94 96,625 Running 24 7 29 Kevin Harvick GM Goodwrench
Chevrolet 160 91 131,186 Running 25 24 37 Kevin Lepage R&J Racing Dodge 160 88 86,150 Running 26 11 7 Robby Gordon Fruit of the Loom Chevrolet 160 85 85,000 Running 27 30 07 Dave Blaney Jack Daniel’s Chevrolet 159 82 92,350 Running 28 4 36 Boris Said CENTRIX Financial Chevrolet 159 79 80,725 Running 29 16 25 Brian Vickers GMAC/ditech.com Chevrolet 158 76 91,000 Running 30 21 92 Hermie
Sadler Taco 31 32 5 # Kyle
Busch Kellogg’s/Cheez-it® Chevrolet 146 70 88,150 Accident 32 26 22 Scott Wimmer Caterpillar Dodge 146 67 102,183 Accident 33 34 99 Carl Edwards Pennzoil Ford 146 64 98,850 Accident 34 41 43 Jeff Green Chex Most Popular Driver
Dodge 141 61 108,711 Running 35 22 18 Bobby Labonte Interstate Batteries Chevrolet 134 58 114,215 Running 36 18 16 Greg Biffle National Guard Ford 129 55 97,475 Running 37 28 97 Kurt Busch Smirnoff Ice/Sharpie Ford 102 52 131,750 Running 38 12 32 Bobby Hamilton Jr. Tide Chevrolet 101 49 90,833 Accident 39 23 6 Mark Martin Viagra Ford 88 46 97,050 Running 40 17 15 Michael Waltrip 41 2 10 Scott Riggs Valvoline/”Herbie Fully
Loaded” Chevrolet 64 40 97,372 Running 42 10 33 Kerry Earnhardt Bass Pro Shops/Tracker Chevrolet 53 37 78,665 Brakes 43 29 41 Casey Mears Target Dodge 35 34 86,874 Accident # Raybestos Rookie of the Year Contender. * Includes race leader/most laps led bonus. Failed to qualify: (4) Mike Garvey #66;
Kenny Wallace #00; Dan Pardus #73; Morgan Shepherd
#89. Race comments: Before an estimated
crowd of 175,000, Tony Stewart won the Pepsi 400, posting his 21st NASCAR
NEXTEL Cup Series victory. Prior to the green flag, the following drivers,
under penalty, dropped to the rear of the field for the reasons indicated: #32 Bobby
TIME OF RACE: 3 hours, 3 minutes, 11
seconds AVERAGE
SPEED: 131.016 mph MARGIN
OF VICTORY: .171 second BUDWEISER POLE AWARD: Tony Stewart, The Home Depot Chevrolet (185.582 mph, 48.496 secs.) COMMIT LOZENGES COMMIT TO WIN AWARD:
Tony Stewart, The
Home Depot Chevrolet CHECKERS/RALLY’S EA SPORTS MOVE OF THE RACE AWARD: Tony Stewart, The Home Depot Chevrolet GOODYEAR GATORBACK FASTEST LAP AWARD: Tony Stewart, The Home Depot Chevrolet MBNA MID-RACE LEADER AWARD: Tony Stewart, The
Home Depot Chevrolet (Also won $5,000 MBNA Bonus for
winning race.) MOBIL 1 COMMAND PERFORMANCE DRIVER OF
THE RACE AWARD: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Budweiser
Chevrolet NASCAR NEXTEL CUP LEADER BONUS: No
winner; rolls over to $60,000 at Chicagoland Speedway. RAYBESTOS ROOKIE OF THE RACE AWARD: Travis Kvapil, Kodak/Jasper SUNOCO DIAMOND PERFORMANCE AWARD: Tony Stewart, The Home Depot Chevrolet U.S.G. IMPROVING THE FINISH AWARD: Mike Wallace, Lucas Oil Chevrolet (35 positions) WIX
FILTERS LAP LEADER AWARD: Tony Stewart,
The Home Depot Chevrolet (151 laps) CAUTION FLAGS: 9 cautions for 41 laps. 1-11 (Competition);
36-41 (Car #6, 8, 10, 17, 18, 22, 41, 49 & 97-Accident, Turn 4); 65-67
(Debris); 70-72 (Car #43-Accident, Turn 2); 74-76 (Car #01, 15 & 16-Accident,
Turn 1); 103-106 (Car #32-Accident, Turn 1); 114-116 (Car #36-Spin, Tri-oval);
141-143 (Car #36-Spin, Turn 1); 147-151 (Car #5, 7, 22, 29, 31, 38 & 99-Accident,
Tri-oval). LAP
LEADERS: 7 lead changes among 5 drivers. Tony Stewart
1-103, Jason Leffler 104, Elliott Sadler 105-106, Dale
Jarrett 107, E. Sadler 108-109, Stewart 110-141, Kasey Kahne 142-144, Stewart
145-160. TOP 10 NASCAR NEXTEL CUP POINTS (Wins) 1 –Jimmie Johnson 2378 (2) 2 –Greg Biffle 2305 (5) 3 –Tony Stewart 2242 (2) 4 –Elliott Sadler 2178 (0) 5 –Rusty Wallace 2173 (0) 6 –Ryan Newman 2115 (0) 7 –Jamie McMurray 2093 (0) 8 –Mark Martin 2068 (0) 9 –Kurt Busch 2030 (1) 10–Dale Jarrett 2030 (0) Pts Wins Chevrolet 124 8 Ford 118 8 Dodge 81 1 CHECKERS/RALLY’S Car # Pts. Ryan Newman (#12) 4 Elliott Sadler (#38) 3 Tony Stewart (#20) 3 RAYBESTOS ROOKIE
OF THE YEAR Kyle Busch 219 Travis Kvapil 177 Eric McClure 19 Mike Garvey 2 BUD POLE AWARD
STANDINGS Ryan Newman 5 Jeff Gordon 2 Kasey Kahne 2 Kyle Busch 1 Kevin Harvick 1 Dale Jarrett 1 Scott Riggs 1 Elliott Sadler 1 Tony Stewart 1 Michael Waltrip 1 WIX FILTERS LAP
LEADER AWARD Car # Pts. Tony Stewart (#20) 5 Greg Biffle (#16) 4 Brian Vickers (#25) 2 MOBIL 1 COMMAND PERF. AWARD Car # Pts. Michael Waltrip (#15) 6 Ryan Newman (#12) 4 Kevin Harvick (#29) 3 USG IMPROVING THE FINISH
AWARD Car # Pts. Elliott Sadler (#38)
4 Kyle Busch (# 5) 2 Bobby Labonte (#18) 2 MBNA MID-RACE
LEADER AWARD Car # Pts. Tony Stewart (#20) 11 Greg Biffle (#16) 8 Kurt Busch (#97) 5 CLEVITE ENGINE BUILDER AWARD Car # Pts. Hendrick (#48) 96 Mark Cronquist (#20) 93 Roush Yates (#97) 92 GOODYEAR GATORBACK FASTEST LAP AWARD Car # Pts. Greg Biffle (#16) 4 Tony Stewart (#20) 3 Jimmie Johnson (#48) 2 COMMIT LOZENGES
COMMIT TO WIN AWARD Car # Pts. Jimmie Johnson (#48) 3 Kasey Kahne (# 9) 3 Jeremy Mayfield (#19) 2 UNOFFICAL RESULTS posted after the race
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