⢠Kasey Kahne scores his 12th career win in his 287th race.
⢠Kahne scroes his first career win at Phoenix, becomes the 22nd different driver to win at PIR.
⢠Kahne scores his first win of 2011, becomes the 18th different driver to win in 2011.
⢠Kahne’s win ended an 81 race winless streak; his last win was at Atlanta in Sept. 2009.
⢠Sunday marks the fourth consecutive race at Phoenix where a driver ended a winless streak of 66 races or more.
⢠Carl Edwards’ (second) average finish in the Chase is 5.2.
⢠Tony Stewart (third) scores his eighth top-five finish in 2011, including his fifth of the Chase; he led the most laps for the third time in the past four races.
⢠Jeff Burton (fourth) has four top-10 finishes in 2011 including three in the past four races.
⢠Ryan Newman (fifth) scores his best finish of the 2011 Chase and his first top-five finish since Michigan in August.
⢠A.J. Allmendinger (sixth) now has top-11 finishes in five of the past seven races.
⢠David Reutimann (seventh) scores his third top-10 finish of 2011.
⢠Marcos Ambrose (eighth) has top-11 finishes in five of the past seven races.
⢠Paul Menard (ninth) scores his second top-10 finish since his win at Indianapolis.
(Racing Recall/nascar.com)(11-13-2011)
