Phoenix Notes-n-Nuggets:


  • • 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)