Sam’s Town 300 Fact Sheet
What: Sam’s Town 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series event
Where: Las Vegas Motor Speedway (1.5-mile tri-oval)
When: Saturday, March 1, 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time
Distance: 300 miles, 200 laps
Purse: $1,649,814
Field: 43 cars. Top 35 in 2007 car owner points, seven next fastest qualifiers and one past champion’s provisional.
TV: ESPN2.
Radio: PRN (Locally on KCYE 104.3 FM)
Qualifying record: Kevin Harvick (181.111 mph, 29.816 seconds) 2007
Race record: Jeff Burton (135.118 mph) 2000
Last winner: Jeff Burton
Top 5 in 2007: 1, J. Burton; 2, Kyle Busch; 3, Stewart; 4, Kurt Busch; 5, Stremme.
Past winners: Jeff Green (1997), Mark Martin (1998, 2005), Jimmy Spencer (1999), Jeff Burton (2000, 2002, 2007), Todd Bodine (2001), Joe Nemechek (2003), Kevin Harvick (2004), Kasey Kahne (2006).
Past pole-winners: Jeff Green (1997), Mark Martin (1998, 1999), Hank Parker Jr. (2000), Matt Kenseth (2001, 2006), Jeff Burton (2002), Mike Bliss (2004), Carl Edwards (2005), Kevin Harvick (2007)*.
* -No qualifying was held in 2003 due to inclement weather.
Noting the Sam’s Town 300
• Three of the 10 Nationwide races at LVMS have been won from the pole.
• Jeff Burton is the only driver to sweep both the Sam’s Town 300 and UAW-Dodge 400 in the same weekend. He accomplished the feat in 2000.
• Mark Martin and Matt Kenseth are the only drivers with more than one pole for a Nationwide race at LVMS. They each have two.
• No non-Sprint Cup Series regular has won a Nationwide race at LVMS since the two series began racing on the same weekend in 1998.
• Dale Earnhardt Jr. (1998) and Greg Biffle (2001) are the only non-Sprint Cup drivers to post a runner-up finish in the Sam’s Town 300 since the series began sharing the same weekend in 1998.
• There are tentatively 17 drivers scheduled to do double duty by racing in both Saturday’s Sam’s Town 300 and Sunday’s UAW-Dodge 400.
