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Ride Along with Martin, Bayne, Johnson and Edwards at Phoenix on DIRECTV

Event: Subway Fresh Fit 500k
Previous Winner: Ryan Newman (beat Jeff Gordon by .130 of a second on April 10, 2010)
Date / Time: Sunday, Feb. 27, at 3 p.m. EST
Track: Phoenix International Raceway
Configuration: 1-mile oval (312 laps = 312 miles/500 kilometers)
Banking in Turns 1 and 2: 11 degrees
Banking in Turns 3 and 4: 9 degrees
Banking on Frontstretch: 3 degrees
Banking on Backstretch: 9 degrees
Frontstretch: 1,179 feet
Backstretch: 1,551 feet
First Sprint Cup Series Race: November 6, 1988 – Checker 500 (Winner – Alan Kulwicki)
Grandstand Seating Capacity: 76,800

NASCAR HOTPASS™ on DIRECTV is back, and it’s FREE to all DIRECTV customers. Four dedicated driver channels offering viewers multiple camera angles, real-time statistics and audio of the network broadcast augmented by live communication between the drivers and their pit crews are available for all 36 point-paying races during the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.

The NASCAR HOTPASS lineup for the Subway Fresh Fit 500k at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Ariz., is as follows:

DIRECTV Channel 795:

Mark Martin and the No. 5 GoDaddy.com team of Hendrick Motorsports

Mark Martin will make his 796^th career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start and his 29^th at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Ariz. … The 52-year-old Batesville, Ark., native has scored 40 wins and 429 top-10 finishes in 795 Sprint Cup starts … Has two wins (October 1993 and April 2009), one pole (April 2009) and 19 top-10 finishes in 28 starts at Phoenix … 2010 marks Martin’s 29^th season with at least one Sprint Cup start … Has run a full Sprint Cup schedule 22 times and finished a career-best second in points in 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2009 … Started 17^th and finished 10^th in last week’s 53^rd Daytona 500 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway.

DIRECTV Channel 796:

Trevor Bayne and the No. 21 Motorcraft / Quick Lane Ford team of Wood Brothers Racing

Trevor Bayne will make his third career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start and his first at Phoenix International Speedway in Avondale, Ariz. … The 20-year-old from Knoxville, Tenn., won last week’s 53^rd Daytona 500 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway in just his second career start … Youngest driver to ever win the Daytona 500 … Victory returned Wood Brothers Racing to victory lane for the first time since Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway in 2001.

DIRECTV Channel 797:

Jimmie Johnson and the No. 48 Lowe’s / KOBALT Tools Chevrolet team of Hendrick Motorsports

Jimmie Johnson will make his 329^th career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start and his 16^th at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Ariz. … Has four wins (November 2007, April 2008, November 2008 and November 2009), one pole (November 2008) and 13 top-10 finishes in 15 starts at Phoenix … The 35-year-old from El Cajon, Calif., has 53 wins and 203 top-10 finishes in 328 Sprint Cup starts … 2011 marks Johnson’s 10^th full year in Sprint Cup and he has won the last five driver championships (2006-2010) … Started 23^rd and finished 27^th in last week’s 53^rd Daytona 500 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway.

DIRECTV Channel 798:

Carl Edwards and the No. 99 Subway Ford team of Roush Fenway Racing

Carl Edwards will make his 231^st career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start and his 14^th at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Ariz. … Has one win (November 2010), two poles (November 2007 and November 2010) and nine top-10 finishes in 13 starts at Phoenix … The 31-year-old Columbia, Mo., native has won 18 races and has 119 top-10 finishes in 230 Sprint Cup starts … Won 2007 NASCAR Nationwide Series title … 2011 marks Edwards’ seventh full year in Sprint Cup with a career-best point finish of second in 2008 … Started 22^nd and finished second in last week’s 53^rd Daytona 500 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway.

About NASCAR HOTPASS on DIRECTV:

NASCAR HOTPASS is available free to all DIRECTV customers. More information is available at www.directv.com/hotpass.

- True Speed Communication for NASCAR HotPass on DIRECTV, Press Release