Carl Edwards – NSCS BRISTOL ADVANCE
Team: No. 99 Fastenal Ford Fusion
Crew Chief: Chad Norris
Chassis: RK-811 This car last ran Kentucky, finished 20th
Edwards, NSCS at Bristol Motor Speedway:
Date Event Start Finish Laps Led Status Money
3-17-2012 Food City 500 8 39 245/500 0 Running $127,191
8-27-2011 Irwin Tools Night Race 2 9 500/500 0 Running $148,841
3-20-2011 Jeff Byrd 500 1 2 500/500 18 Running $184,691
8-21-2010 Irwin Tools Night Race 2 12 500/500 0 Running $137,548
3-21-2010 Food City 500 8 6 500/500 0 Running $130,173
8-22-2009 Sharpie 500 32 16 500/500 0 Running $146,756
3-22-2009 Food City 500 38 15 503/503 0 Running $138,606
8-23-2008 Sharpie 500 1 1 500/500 84 Running $344,625
3-16-2008 Food City 500 9 16 504/506 0 Running $133,125
8-25-2007 Sharpie 500 6 1 500/500 182 Running $297,050
3-25-2007 Food City 500 32 12 504/504 0 Running $96,500
8-26-2006 Sharpie 500 39 7 500/500 16 Running $128,200
3-26-2006 Food City 500 3 4 500/500 0 Running $122,575
8-27-2005 Sharpie 500 37 24 499/500 0 Running $101,875
4-03-2005 Food City 500 42 26 447/500 0 Running $96,490
8-28-2004 Sharpie 500 25 33 386/500 0 Accident $103,187
Cumulative Races Wins Top-5s Top-10s Poles Led Money
16 2 4 7 2 300 $2,437,433
QUOTES
Carl Edwards on racing at Bristol Motor Speedway:
“I haven’t seen the track since they changed it so I’m not exactly sure what to expect. Who knows what will happen. Any time you change a track like that there is no telling. It might make it a completely different race and I guess in the end that is what they are trying to do. I think all of us are hoping for a really good race. We’ve had some success there so I feel like we can go there and win, and that is what we need right now. It would be huge to get the Fastenal Ford in victory lane.”
Crew chief Chad Norris on racing at Bristol Motor Speedway:
“Bristol is a lot of fun when you are running well and running up front, although it can turn on you pretty quickly. It doesn’t take much to get caught up in someone else’s mess, which is what happened to Carl in the spring race. We know we need to get a win this weekend to keep our Chase hopes alive so that is what our game plan is for the weekend.”
FAST FACTS
CARL EDWARDS enters Bristol 12th in the NASCAR Sprint Cup point standings, 38 points behind 10th place. He has earned two top-five and 11 top-10 finishes this season.
FOR THE RECORD… In 16 starts at the 0.533-mile bullring, Edwards has two wins, four top-five, seven top-10 finishes and two poles. His average start is 17.8, and his average finish is 13.9. Edwards has completed 7588 of 8013 (94.7%) laps attempted at Bristol.
IN THE LOOP… According to NASCAR’s Loop Statistics compiled over the last 16 races at Bristol, Edwards has turned 277 of the track’s fastest laps which is seventh highest, spent 4,897 laps (65.2%) in the top 15 and led a total of 300 laps (10th most).
ON THE TRACK…The No. 99 Blue Team will unload RK-811 for the weekend. This car first raced at Texas in April (finished eighth), Charlotte in May (finished ninth) and Kentucky in June (finished 20th).
REWIND, BRISTOL, AUGUST 2011… Edwards finished ninth and the top-10 finish clinched his spot in the 2011 Chase with two races remaining before the cut-off point.
