Clint Bowyer won the Subway Jalapeno 250 Powered by Coca-Cola. He posted his seventh series victory in his 150th start. It was his first win at Daytona in his 10th start.
Bowyer won the race from the pole, the first time he has ever won a Nationwide race from the first starting position. This is the fourth race at Daytona won from the pole.
Bowyer led 48 of the 102 laps, including the final 38. He led the most laps in both races at Daytona in 2009. The driver leading the most laps has won seven of the past eight summer races at Daytona.
RCR scored its third win at Daytona with the third different driver; Dale Earnhardt Jr. won in February 2002, and Kevin Harvick won in February 2007. RCR posted its 54th win in the series (third all time) and first of 2009.
This was Bowyer’s first NASCAR restrictor-plate victory.
The race finished under green-white-checker conditions for the fifth time in 2009 and the fifth consecutive July race at Daytona.
It was the first race using double-file restarts.
Bowyer became the 17th different driver to win at Daytona in 36 races.
Kyle Busch (second) posted his fifth top-2 finish in the past five races.
Carl Edwards (third) scored his 11th top-5 finish of 2009.
Joey Logano (fourth) scored his fifth straight top-5 finish.
Kasey Kahne (10th) scored the first top-5 finish for the #10 car in 2009 in his first Nationwide start this season.
Justin Allgaier (eighth) was the highest-finishing rookie of the year contender.
Chevrolet scored its 24th win at Daytona and fifth of 2009.
The race featured 15 lead changes; there have been double-digit lead changes in 11 of the last 12 Daytona races.
Busch gained 10 points on second-place Edwards and now has a 172-point lead.
(ESPN.com)(7-6-2009)
