Originally Posted by Dylan
NASCAR Sprint Cup at Sonoma Raceway, Toyota/Save Mart 350
SUNDAY START TIME: Baseball Hall of Famer Vida Blue will instruct drivers to start their engines at 3:08 p.m. Eastern time today (12:08 local), followed by the green flag at 3:20 p.m. ET. So if you want to skip the pre-race show and just tune in for the race, turn on your TV at 3:20 p.m. ET
RACE DISTANCE: The Toyota/Save Mart 350 is actually 350 kilometers, not 350 miles. That means drivers will need to complete 110 laps around the 1.99-mile Sonoma Raceway for a total of 218.9 miles.
POLE: McMurray wins again at Sonoma
TV/RADIO SCHEDULE: TNT will broadcast today's race and has a pre-race show beginning at 2 p.m. ET. The Performance Racing Network (PRN) will call the race on the radio.
WEATHER: The National Weather Service is calling for a typically beautiful Northern California day: Mostly sunny skies with a high of 80 degrees and a light breeze.
NATIONAL ANTHEM: Broadway star Carrie Manolakos will sing the national anthem before today's race.
LAST TIME: Martin Truex Jr. became the latest surprise Sonoma winner -- the ninth different winner at this track in nine races. Michael Waltrip Racing has won two straight Sonoma races (Clint Bowyer, 2012).
STARTING LINEUP: Jamie McMurray won the Sonoma pole for the second straight year ahead of Northern California natives AJ Allmendinger and Kyle Larson.
Here's the starting lineup for today's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Sonoma:
1.Jamie McMurray
2.AJ Allmendinger
3.Kyle Larson
4.Carl Edwards
5.Kurt Busch
6.Kevin Harvick
7.Ryan Newman
8.Brian Vickers
9.Paul Menard
10.Joey Logano
11.Danica Patrick
12.Casey Mears
13.Brad Keselowski
14.Matt Kenseth
15.Jeff Gordon
16.Denny Hamlin
17.Dale Earnhardt Jr.
18.Kurt Busch
19.Greg Biffle
20.Kyle Busch
21.Tony Stewart
22.Jimmie Johnson
23.Marcos Ambrose
24.Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
25.Clint Bowyer
26.Austin Dillon
27.David Gilliland
28.Michael McDowell
29.Aric Almirola
30.Kasey Kahne
31.David Ragan
32.Cole Whitt
33.Josh Wise
34.Ryan Truex
35.Justin Allgaier
36.Alex Kennedy
37.Timmy Hill (qualified for Landon Cassill)
38.Alex Bowman
39.David Mayhew
40.Reed Sorenson
41.Boris Said
42.Michael Annett
43.Tomy Drissi
Source: USA Today
From Jakski's:
This race has been won 5 times from McMurrays starting position
This race has been won 3 times each from Allmendinger, Newman, and Patrick's starting positions
This race has been won 2 times each from Larson's, Edward's, and Kurt Busch's starting positions
Every single one of those drivers named drives for Chevrolet (except Edwards Ford), of which has the most wins here (Chevrolet - 10)
14 races have been won from a Top 5 starting position, 18 from the Top 10 (out of 25)
One race has also been won from Harvick, Kenseth, Keselowski, Kahne, and Whitt's starting positions
Chevrolet's most recent two wins here came in 2010 with Johnson, and 2006 with Gordon who also won it in 2004, Stewart won the 2005 race, and Robby Gordon won it in 2003, all of which drove for Chevrolet at the time, trend seems to be every 4 years for Chevrolet.
This track has not been good to Ford, its most recent win dates back to 2002.
Dodge and Toyota both have 3 recent wins here, with Dodge out of the picture, and Chevrolet looking strong again. This might be Chevrolet's race to lose, 10/15 of the Top qualifiers are Chevrolets.
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