Matt Kenseth – NSCS ADVANCE
Team: No. 17 Best Buy Ford Fusion
Crew Chief: Jimmy Fennig
Chassis: Primary: RK-779 (Last run at Talladega, Oct. 2011)
Kenseth NSCS record at Daytona International Speedway:
Date Event S F Laps Status Earnings
2/20/00 Daytona 500 24 10 200/200 Running $182,875
7/1/00 Pepsi 400 22 20 160/160 Running $55,480
2/18/01 Daytona 500 16 21 196/200 Running $136,584
7/7/01 Pepsi 400 15 16 160/160 Running $61,875
2/17/02 Daytona 500 40 33 154/200 Crash $145,062
7/6/02 Pepsi 400 38 30 154/160 Running $73,700
2/16/03 Daytona 500 35 20 109/109 Running $200,345
7/5/03 Pepsi 400 37 6 160/160 Running $98,475
2/15/04 Daytona 500 12 9 200/200 Running $307,917
7/3/04 Pepsi 400 36 39 110/160 Crash $117,803
2/20/05 Daytona 500 14 42 34/203 Engine $292,124
7/2/05 Pepsi 400 38 9 160/160 Running $145,036
2/19/06 Daytona 500 11 15 203/203 Running $302,549
7/1/06 Pepsi 400 10 5 160/160 Running $165,391
2/18/07 Daytona 500 10 27 202/202 Running $309,099
7/7/07 Pepsi 400 3 8 160/160 Running $151,416
2/17/08 Daytona 500 28 36 194/200 Running $308,129
7/5/08 Coke Zero 400 19 3 162/162 Running $208,191
2/15/09 Daytona 500 39 1 152/152 Running $1,530,388
7/4/09 Coke Zero 400 10 8 160/160 Running $153,915
2/14/10 Daytona 500 24 8 208/208 Running $375,521
7/3/10 Coke Zero 400 7 15 166/166 Running $143,251
2/20/11 Daytona 500 9 34 133/208 Crash $315,774
7/2/11 Coke Zero 400 16 2 170/170 Running $239,061
Races Wins Top 5s Top 10s Poles Earnings
Cumulative 24 1 4 11 0 $6,019,961
Kenseth on racing at Daytona International Speedway:
“The Daytona 500 is our biggest race of the year, so when you can win that race, it is one of the wins you always want to collect. Of course you want to win every week, but if you had to pick one race, this would be one of them. It was great to win it back in 2009, and I’d really like to win it again. It’s encouraging that all of the Fords have been really fast so far, and it seems like our stuff has been running good this past week. I thought Saturday night for the Shootout that the cars had good speed. As fast as all the Fords were on Sunday, I was hoping we could maybe sneak in one of those spots. We just didn’t have the speed those guys had for qualifying, but we’ll work on set-ups this week in order to race our Best Buy Ford into a better starting position for Sunday’s Daytona 500.”
Crew chief Jimmy Fennig on racing at Daytona International Speedway:
“We came back and looked over our notes from last week and the Shootout in order to see what we feel we can improve upon for the Daytona 500 practices this week. We saw that pack racing is back, and everyone wants to win the 500, so it’s all about racing hard but having some drafting help to make it to the finish on Sunday. The car we’re bringing was last run at Talladega in October, and is the same car we finished second with at Daytona last July.”
FAST FACTS:
• Kenseth has an average starting position of 21.4 and an average finishing position of 17.4 at Daytona
• Kenseth has achieved one win, four top-five, and 11 top-10’s at Daytona International Speedway
• Kenseth has completed 3,867 of 4,223 (91.6 percent) laps at Daytona and led for a total of 83 laps
• This weekend at Daytona, Kenseth will pilot the No. 17 Best Buy Ford Fusion
