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Tuesday, 06/28/2016 10:59:39 AM

Tuesday, June 28, 2016 10:59:39 AM

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Race before Coke Zero 400 not an indicator of Daytona success: Just because #14-Tony Stewart won Sunday's Toyota Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway does not guarantee success in this Saturday's Coke Zero 400. Over the last 20 years, the driver winning the race just prior to Daytona's summer NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race has rarely won on the high-banked tri-oval. It has not happened in 10 years. Jeff Gordon, who is now retired, won those races back-to-back in 2004 and then Stewart, who will retire at season's end, did it the next season on the way to his second Cup Series championship. Since 2006 the races prior to the Coke Zero 400 have been staged at Sonoma Raceway, Kentucky Speedway and New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Like this year, NASCAR competitors raced at Sonoma last year with Kyle Busch emerging as the surprise winner. When Busch got to Daytona for the summer run, he finished 17th. Dale Earnhardt Jr. won last year's race. For example, in 2014 Brad Keselowski captured the race at Kentucky but finished 18th at Daytona. In 2013 Kenseth won Kentucky and wound up 33rd after being swept into a crash at DIS. The two-race matchup was particularly cruel to both Gordon and Denny Hamlin in the 2006 and 2007 seasons. Gordon won Sonoma in 2006 and finished 40th in the Coke Zero 400. The following year Hamlin won at New Hampshire and in his very next start at Daytona finished dead last in a 43-car field.
a look at the last 10 years of races.:
2015, Sonoma: Kyle Busch, Daytona; Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Busch 17th)
2014, Kentucky: Brad Keselowski; Daytona: Aric Almirola (Keselowski, 18th)
2013, Kentucky: Matt Kenseth; Daytona: Jimmie Johnson (Kenseth, 33rd)
2012, Kentucky: Brad Keselowski; Daytona: Tony Stewart (Keselowski, 8th)
2011, Sonoma: Kurt Busch; Daytona: David Ragan (Busch, 14th)
2010, New Hampshire: Jimmie Johnson; Daytona: Kevin Harvick (Johnson, 31st)
2009, New Hampshire: Joey Logano; Daytona: Tony Stewart (Logano, 19th)
2008, New Hampshire: Kurt Busch; Daytona: Kyle Busch (Kurt Busch, 4th)
2007, New Hampshire: Denny Hamlin; Daytona: Jamie McMurray (Hamlin, 43rd)
2006, Sonoma: Jeff Gordon; Daytona: Tony Stewart (Gordon

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