Event/Date: Coke Zero 400 powered by Coca-Cola - July 4, 2009
Venue: Daytona International Speedway - Daytona Beach, FL

• This Week's Cheerios/Hamburger Helper Chevrolet at Daytona International Speedway ... Clint Bowyer will pilot Chassis No. 260 from the Richard Childress Racing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stable. Built new for 2008, Mike Wallace piloted this Chevrolet Impala SS to a 30th-place finish at Talladega Superspeedway last October. It made its 2009 debut in the season-opening Daytona 500 in February where Bowyer finished fourth in the rain-shortened event.
• Stat Facts ...

  • Daytona Facts ... In seven NSCS starts at Daytona International Speedway, Bowyer has one top-five and five top-10 finishes. Additionally, the 30-year-old driver has a 24th-place average starting position, an average finish of 11.1, and has completed 100 percent of the laps contested (1,239 of 1,239) and has led 59 circuits around the "World Center of Racing".
  • Rearview Mirror ... Bowyer and the Hartford Racing team appeared to be in contention for a top-10 finish at New Hampshire Motor Speedway last Sunday but rain came at an inopportune time and left them with a 20th-place finish.
  • Get to the Points ... Bowyer enters Daytona 15th in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship point standings. With nine races remaining before the Chase for the Sprint Cup kicks off in September at NHMS, Bowyer sits 94 markers behind 12th-place point man Juan Pablo Montoya and just 153 behind eighth-place Kyle Busch. The top 12 in the Sprint Cup Series points following the September 12 Chevy Rock & Roll 400 at Richmond International Raceway are locked into NASCAR's 12-team Chase for the Sprint Cup playoff field.
  • Halfway This Time By ... This weekend's Coke Zero 400 marks the halfway point of the 2009 NSCS schedule. Over the season's first 17 races, Bowyer has accumulated three top-five and six top-10 finishes, an average start of 19.3 and an average finish of 16.9. The two-time NSCS winner has led 16 laps of competition and has completed 4,704 of the 5,034 (93.4 percent) laps contested thus far.
  • RCR Rocks Daytona ... Dating back to 1986, RCR owns 24 total victories at DIS, including Dale Earnhardt's emotional win in 1998, kicking off NASCAR's 50th anniversary, and Kevin Harvick's dramatic win in the 2007 season-opening Daytona 500. Additionally, RCR won 10 straight (1990-1999) qualifying races with Earnhardt. All told, RCR has won six Bud Shootouts, including Harvick's win earlier this season, 13 qualifying races, two Coke Zero 400s and two Daytona 500s. Dale Earnhardt Jr. also won the February 2002 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Daytona driving a car fielded by RCR and Harvick won the 2007 Nationwide Series opener at DIS in the No. 21 Chevrolet. In 111 points-paying Sprint Cup Series races at the historic 2.5-mile Daytona Beach race course, RCR has four wins, 10 poles, 27 top-five and 48 top-10 finishes. RCR-prepared race cars have also led 1,440 laps and earned just over $18 million in purse money. Richard Childress, a former driver in NASCAR's premier division earned two of those top 10s between February 1976 and July 1980.
  • The Collective RCR ... In 17 races this season, RCR-prepared Sprint Cup Series entries have notched seven top-five and 16 top-10 finishes. The No. 29 team kicked off the 2009 season with a win in the Budweiser Shootout at Daytona. RCR-prepared cars have also completed 19,474 laps with four different drivers including Jeff Burton, Bowyer, Harvick and Casey Mears. Meanwhile, RCR teams have been atop the leaderboard for 95 laps and all four teams have earned just shy of $10.5 million combined purse money in 2009.

• Meet the Driver ... On behalf of Coca-Cola, Bowyer will participate in a Q&A session at the Sprint FANZONE at DIS on Saturday, July 4 at 5:00 p.m.
• Double Duty ... In addition to his driving duties in Saturday night's Coke Zero 400, Bowyer, the 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series champion, will drive the No. 29 Holiday Inn/Holiday Inn Express Chevrolet in Friday's Subway Jalapeno 250 powered by Coca-Cola Nationwide Series race. Live coverage of the event begins Friday, July 3 at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The race will be televised live on ESPN and broadcast from coast to coast on the Motor Racing Network and Sirius XM Satellite Radio.
• Catch the Action ... Flag-to-flag coverage of the Coke Zero 400 from Daytona International Speedway will take the green flag Saturday, July 4 beginning at 6:30 p.m. EDT. The race will be televised live on TNT and broadcast on the Motor Racing Network and Sirius XM Satellite Radio. Qualifying for the 18th points-paying race on the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule will be telecast live on SPEED Friday, July 3 beginning at 4 p.m. EDT.

You talk about slipping and sliding. In talking with your RCR teammate Jeff Burton, he says it blows him away how different the track can be from February to July.
"Yeah, it's a little different but you expect it to be different. I'll be ready for it. The guys will be ready for it and we'll have a good Cheerios/Hamburger Helper Chevrolet for it."

What do you think about night racing at Daytona?
"I like it. I really enjoy it. The cars look really cool under the lights. It adds an extra element to what an already awesome spectacle that race is. It's a great time of the year. It's an awesome track and racing under the lights just makes it that much cooler."