Carl Edwards – NSCS TEXAS ADVANCE
Team: No. 99 Aflac Ford Fusion
Crew Chief: Chad Norris
Chassis: RK-820 Last raced Dover, finished fifth
Edwards, NSCS at Texas Motor Speedway:
Date Event S F Laps Led Status Money
4-14-12 Samsung Mobile 500 20 8 334/334 0 Running $176,156
11-6-11 AAA Texas 500 7 2 334/334 14 Running $361,566
4-9-11 Samsung Mobile 500 2 3 334/334 3 Running $269,791
11-7-10 AAA Texas 500 3 19 334/334 0 Running $135,123
4-19-10 Samsung Mobile 500 20 33 317/334 0 Accident $122,498
11-8-09 Dickies 500 6 39 174/334 0 Accident $146,406
4-5-09 Samsung 500 13 10 334/334 9 Running $176,579
11-2-08 Dickies 500 16 1 334/334 212 Running $496,300
4-6-08 Samsung 500 2 1 339/339 123 Running $541,150
11-4-07 Dickies 500 21 26 331/334 0 Running $108,625
4-15-07 Samsung 500 10 12 334/334 0 Running $129,975
11-5-06 Dickies 500 15 15 339/339 0 Running $120,050
4-9-06 Samsung 500 37 36 256/335 50 Accident $101,175
11-06-05 Dickies 500 30 1 334/334 82 Running $440,550
4-17-05 Samsung 500 20 19 334/334 0 Running $100,125
Races Wins Top-5s Top-10s Poles Led Money
Cumulative 15 3 5 6 0 493 $3,426,069
Carl Edwards on racing at Texas Motor Speedway:
“I like racing at Texas a lot. I’m excited to go there since I think we’ve got as good a shot at winning there as we’ve had all season. We want to finish this season strong just like we did in 2010 leading up to our 2011 championship run, and to do that we need to get a couple of wins. Texas is a really fun race track. Greg (Biffle) won there in the spring and we feel like we’ve got a really good shot at it.”
Crew chief Chad Norris on racing at Texas Motor Speedway:
“Carl has three wins at Texas already and we’d sure like to get him the fourth one this weekend. Biffle won there in the spring while we got a top-10 finish so we know the RFR Fords are strong at Texas. We’re taking the same car we raced at Dover last month which was fast there so if we can avoid the bad luck that has plagued us this season hopefully we can end the season strong the next three weeks.”
Fast Facts
CARL EDWARDS enters Texas 14th in the NASCAR Sprint Cup point standings, He has earned three top-five, 13 top-10 finishes and one pole this season.
FOR THE RECORD… Edwards has accumulated three wins at the 1.5-mile Texas track, the most of any active Sprint Cup driver. Edwards’ average start at Texas is 14.8 and his average finish is 15.0. He is one of only two drivers to win both the spring & fall events in the same year at Texas.
IN THE LOOP… According to NASCAR’s Loop Statistics, Edwards ranks fourth in laps led with 493 in the past 15 races. He has also turned 340 of the track’s fastest laps, which is second best. He has a driver rating of 99.2, fifth best among active drivers, and spent 3,875 laps in the top 15 (77.2%) which is fourth best.
ON THE TRACK…The Aflac Team will be unloading chassis No.RK-820 at Texas this weekend. This car last raced at Dover in September where it finished fifth.
REWIND NOVEMBER, 2011… Edwards was 11th with 20 laps to go as some teams elected to stay out as long as they could hoping for a caution. As the cars in front of him eventually were forced to pit, he was in third with 10 to go. Jeff Burton led the race and ran out of fuel with four laps left when Tony Stewart inherited the lead and never looked back. Edwards tried to chase him down, but could not catch him in the remaining laps.
