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WIX Filters Lap Leader News and Notes: Food City 500

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• Kasey Kahne was the WIX Filters Lap Leader of the Race in the March 7 Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta (Ga.) Motor Speedway, leading eight times for a race-high 144 laps.

• FOUR RACES FOUR DIFFERENT FACES: Kahne, Tony Stewart, Jeff Burton and Kevin Harvick are tied for the lead in the overall WIX Filters Lap Leader standings entering the March 21 Food City 500 at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway.  Each driver has claimed the honor once.

• Kyle Busch was the WIX Filters Lap Leader of the Race in the 2009 Food City 500, leading a race-high 378 of 500 laps.  Busch won the event, taking the checkered flag .391 second ahead of second-place Denny Hamlin.

• DID YOU KNOW? In the 10 most recent spring races at Bristol, the driver leading the most laps has scored two wins and racked up five top-10 finishes.

• The record for most laps led by a race winner at Bristol is 500 by Cale Yarborough in the 1973 Food City 500 (spring race).

• The record for most lead changes in a race at Bristol is 40 in the 1991 Food City 500 (spring race).

• The record for most leaders in a race at Bristol is 16 in the 1989 Food City 500 (spring race).

• Drivers that have led the most laps in the 10 most recent spring races at Bristol:

2000:   Jeff Gordon, 225 laps, eighth

2001:   Kevin Harvick, 137 laps, 24^th

2002:   Dale Earnhardt Jr., 181 laps, fourth

2003:   Jeff Gordon, 174 laps, ninth

2004:   Kurt Busch, 119 laps, FIRST

2005:   Rusty Wallace, 157 laps, 13^th

2006:   Tony Stewart, 245 laps, 12^th

2007:   Tony Stewart, 257 laps, 35^th

2008:   Tony Stewart, 267 laps, 14^th

2009:   Kyle Busch, 378 laps, FIRST

WIX FILTERS LAP LEADER AWARD  STANDINGS

Kevin Harvick             1
Jeff Burton                   1
Tony Stewart              1
Kasey Kahne               1

WIX FILTERS LAP LEADER AWARD WINNERS BY  RACE
 
EVENT                                                            DRIVER

Daytona 500                                                     Kevin Harvick, 41 laps
Auto Club 500                                                             Jeff Burton, 46 laps
Shelby American                                              Tony Stewart, seven laps
Kobalt Tools 500                                             Kasey Kahne, 144 laps

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- Camp & Associates, Inc., For WIX Filters, Press Release