GARAGE/TRACK SCHEDULE
Friday, March 2 12:30 – 2:00 pm NSCS Practice 3:30 – 5:00 pm NSCS Final Practice 6:00 pm NSCS Garage Closes
Saturday, March 3
9:00 am NSCS Garage Opens 12:35 pm NSCS Qualifying 5:00 pm NSCS Garage Closes
Sunday, March 4
7:00 am NSCS Garage Opens 11:00 am NSCS Driver/Crew Chief Meeting 12:30 pm NSCS Driver Intros 1:00 pm NSCS Race
ALL TIMES ABOVE ARE LISTED IN LOCAL / MOUNTAIN TIME ZONE
Practices: (times in eastern time)
Friday, March 2, 2:30 – 4:00pm/et, TV-SPEED
Happy Hour ‘Final’ practice:
Friday, March 3, 5:30 – 7:00pm/et, TV-SPEED
Qualifying:
Saturday, March 3 at 2:35 pm/et
2 laps for positions 1-42, TV-SPEED, no re-air scheduled
Race Coverage:
Subway Fit Fresh 500 Sunday, March 4, 2012.
Broadcasting Station:
FOX at 3:00 pm/et; Pre-Race show at 2:30 pm/et; green flag approx 3:14pm/et
Radio: Motor Racing Network (MRN) and Sirius XM Satellite NASCAR Radio 90
Scheduled Race Re-Airs: on SPEED, Wednesday, March 7 at 12:00pm/et
Grand Marshal: Detroit Lions player Ndamukong Suh
Command to start engines: Ndamukong Suh
Honorary Pace Car Driver: UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz
National Anthem: Brian McKnight
Race: 2 of 36 (3-4-12)
Track Size: 1 mile
Banking/1 and 2: 10 – 11 degrees
Banking/3 and 4: 8 – 9 degrees
Banking/Frontstretch: 3 degrees
Banking/Backstretch: 9 degrees
Frontstretch: 1,179 feet
Backstretch: 1,551 feet
GOODYEAR TIRES
Teams in both the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series will run the same tire codes at Phoenix this weekend . . . this is the same combination of left- and right-side tires that these teams ran at Phoenix last November. Soon after the track was repaved last summer, Goodyear held a tire test on Phoenix’s new track surface with Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards, Jimmie Johnson and Tony Stewart on August 29-30, 2011. This tire set-up came out of that test and was confirmed at a NASCAR open test in early October. As on most NASCAR ovals one mile or less in length, teams will not run inner liners in their tires at Phoenix.
2011 February Pole Sitter: #99-Carl Edwards, 137.279mph [track record], finished 28th
2011 November Pole Sitter: #17-Matt Kenseth, 137.101mph, finished 34th
Track Qualifying Record: Carl Edwards, 2/26/2011, 137.279mph
Oldest Pole Winner: Mark Martin, 50 years, 3 months, 9 days, 4/18/2009
Youngest Pole Winner: Kyle Busch, 20 years, 11 months, 20 days, 4/22/2006
2011 February Race Winner: #24-Jeff Gordon, 102.961mph, started 20th
2011 November Winner: #4-Kasey Kahne, 112.918mph, finished 9th
Race Record: Tony Stewart, Nov 1999, 118.132mph
Slowest Race Record: Alan Kulwicki, 1988, 90.457mph
Oldest Race Winner: Mark Martin, 50 years, 3 months, 9 days, 4/18/2009
Youngest Race Winner: Kyle Busch, 20 years, 5 months, 11 days, 11/13/2005
Most Wins – Active Driver: Jimmie Johnson, 4
Most Wins – All Time: Jimmie Johnson, 4
Most Poles: Ryan Newman, 4
Most Top 5s: Mark Martin, 12; Jimmie Johnson 11; Jeff Gordon 10
Most Top 10s: Mark Martin, 19; Jeff Gordon, 18
Most Lead Changes: 28 – 2/27/2011
Fewest Lead Changes: 1 – 11/4/1990
Most Leaders: 13 – four times, last 4/10/2010
Fewest Leaders: 2 – 11/4/1990
Most Cautions: 11 – 11/7/2004
Most Caution Laps: 66, 11/2/2003
Fewest Cautions: 2 – 11/7/1999
Fewest Caution Laps: 10, 11/7/1999
Most on the Lead Lap: M29 – 11/2/2003
Fewest on the Lead Lap: 3 – 10/30/1994
Most Running at the Finish: 41 – three, last on 4/21/2007
Fewest Running at the Finish: 27 – 11/5/1989
Worst Starting Spot to Win: Ricky Rudd, 1995, started 29th
Most Laps Led by a Race Winner: 262 – Dale Earnhardt, 11/4/1990
Fewest Laps Led by a Race Winner: 10 – Kevin Harvick 4/22/2006
Most Wins by a Manufacturer: 13 – Ford
Source: NASCAR Media