NASCAR Cup Series

TOYOTA TIDBITS KAHNE COLLECTS CHECKERS: Red Bull Racing Team driver Kasey Kahne beat championship-contenders Carl Edwards (second) and Tony Stewart (third) to the finish line to capture the checked flag in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Phoenix International Raceway.

EXPRESS NOTES: Phoenix Recap: Denny Hamlin drove the #11 FedEx Freight Toyota Camry to a 12th-place finish in Sunday’s Kobalt Tools 500 at Phoenix International Raceway, the penultimate race of the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season and Round 9 of the Chase for the championship.

Racing legend and St. Louis, Missouri native Rusty Wallace, will be honored by his hometown this Wednesday, as an inductee into the St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame.

With only one race remaining in the 2011 season, Roush Fenway Racing holds the points’ lead in both of NASCAR’s two major series and will look to make history this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway; becoming the only team in NASCAR history to win both the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series’ titles in the same season, while bringing home the team’s historic 300th NASCAR win in the process.

Kevin Harvick and the No. 29 Budweiser Chevrolet team will close out the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) season in Sunday’s Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

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Edwards chased Kasey Kahne to the finish at Phoenix, but had to settle for the runner-up spot in the Kobalt Tools 500. Edwards remained on top in the Sprint Cup point standings and will take a three-point lead over Tony Stewart to Homestead.

Glenn “Fireball” Roberts once described Pistone as, “The toughest guy there is to beat on quarters and half-milers.”

THE MODERATOR: Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to today's NASCAR teleconference. Our guest today is Kevin Harvick. Harvick has finished in the top five in three consecutive races at Homestead-Miami Speedway.