* Brian Vickers won the Carfax 400 at Michigan International Speedway, becoming the 13th different race winner in 23 races in 2009. His last win came at Talladega in October 2006.
* Vickers became the 31st different race winner in 81 Cup races at Michigan. It was his second career victory in his 195th start. He scored his first career win for Red Bull Racing.
* Vickers has finished 11th or better in the last six races. He climbed from 17th to 13th in the point standings in those races, and is now only 12 points out of the Chase.
* Any driver with a 586-point lead or more over 13th-place Brian Vickers is mathematically locked into the 2009 Chase. Tony Stewart (721 ahead) locked by starting in Sunday’s race. Any driver more than 586 points behind 12th-place Mark Martin has been eliminated from the 2009 Chase.
* This marked the first win by Toyota at Michigan. Chevrolet has scored 12 wins in 22 races in 2009, leading all manufacturers. Toyota has seven, and Dodge and Ford each have two.
* Jimmie Johnson finished 33rd after running out of fuel with just over two laps to go. He led six times for 133 laps, the most of the day.
* Jeff Gordon (second) posted his 11th top-5 finish of the season and moved from third to second in points. Gordon led his career 1,000th time in a Cup race.
* Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished third in his 350th series race. It was just his second top-5 finish of the season.
* Joey Logano (seventh) was the highest-finishing Rookie of the Year contender.
* Tony Stewart (17th) ended a 10-race streak of top-10 finishes that began at Dover.
* Jeff Burton (18th) has finished 16th or worse in the last nine races, since Michigan in June.
* Juan Pablo Montoya (19th) ended a nine-race streak of top-15 finishes that began at Pocono in June.
* Stewart and Elliott Sadler (25th) have each been running at the finish in the last 46 races, the longest current streak.
(Racing Reference/ESPN)(8-17-2009)
