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NASCAR - Camping World - American Ethanol 225 Preview

From The Sports Network

DATE: Saturday, July 21st

SITE: Chicagoland Speedway (2001) -- Joliet, Illinois

TRACK: 1.5-mile tri-oval - 2,400 feet (Frontstretch); 1,700 feet (Backstretch)

CAPACITY: 69,000 (Grandstand Seating)

ANNUAL: 4th

TELEVISION: Speed Channel

ANNOUNCERS: Rick Allen, Phil Parsons, Michael Waltrip

RADIO: Motor Racing Network (MRN)/SIRIUS NASCAR Radio

START TIME: 8 p.m. (ET)

DEFENDING CHAMPION: Austin Dillon (Not Defending)

RUNNER-UP: Kevin Harvick

POLE WINNER: Steve Arpin (Finished 16th)

LAPS: 150

MILES: 225

QUALIFYING RECORD: Steve Arpin, 2011 (175.507 m.p.h.)

RACE RECORD: Austin Dillon, 2011 (139.703 m.p.h.)

TOTAL PURSE: $604,189 (2011 figures)

PAYOUTS: 1st Place - $38,700; 2nd Place - $29,050; 3rd Place - $24,875

2011 Finish
Finish	Driver	Start	Finish	Driver	Start
1	Austin Dillon	5	6	Johnny Sauter	13
2	Kevin Harvick	2	7	Matt Crafton	10
3	Nelson Piquet Jr	12	8	Miguel Paludo	9
4	Parker Kligerman	3	9	Cole Whitt	7
5	Kyle Busch	14	10	Ron Hornaday Jr	16

2011 American Ethanol 225 Facts and Figures
AVERAGE SPEED: 139.703 m.p.h.
TIME OF RACE: 1 hour, 36 minutes, 38 seconds
MARGIN OF VICTORY: 4.950 seconds
CAUTION FLAGS: 3 for 15 laps
LEAD CHANGES: 12 among 7 drivers
POLE WINNER: Steve Arpin (175.507 m.p.h.)

Past American Ethanol 225 Winners (Starting Position) Car -- Speed

2011 -- Austin Dillon (5th) -- Chevrolet -- 139.703 m.p.h. (race record)

2010 -- Kyle Busch (4th) -- Toyota -- 132.610 m.p.h.

2009 -- Kyle Busch (4th) -- Toyota -- 119.293 m.p.h.

NOTE: Formerly called EnjoyIllinois.com 225 (2009-10) and Fast Five 225

(2011).

Past American Ethanol 225 Pole Winners (Finish)

2011 -- Steve Arpin -- 16th

2010 -- Todd Bodine -- 2nd

2009 -- Matt Crafton -- 14th

Last Race Results
RACE: American Ethanol 200 (July 14th)
SITE: Iowa Speedway -- Newton, Iowa
MILES: 175
LAPS: 200
WINNER: Timothy Peters
RUNNER-UP: Ron Hornaday Jr
THIRD: Matt Crafton
FOURTH: Johnny Sauter
FIFTH: Justin Lofton
POLE WINNER: Timothy Peters (Finished 1st)
TIME OF RACE: 1 hour, 48 minutes, 54 seconds
AVERAGE SPEED: 96.419 m.p.h.
MARGIN OF VICTORY: 1.586 seconds
CAUTION FLAGS: 7 for 39 laps
LEAD CHANGES: 6 among 3 drivers
LAP LEADERS: T. Peters 1-9; J. Buescher 10-41; T. Peters 42-75; J. Buescher
	76-134; T. Peters 135-168; R. Hornaday Jr. 169-190; T. Peters
	191-200.

American Ethanol 225 Entry List
Car	Driver, Hometown	Car/Name
2	Brendan Gaughan (Las Vegas, NV)	Chevrolet/South Point
3	Ty Dillon (Lewisville, NC)	Chevrolet/Bass Pro Shops
5	Paulie Harraka (Fair Lawn, NJ)	Ford/TBA
6	Justin Lofton (Westmorland, CA)	Chevrolet/collegecomplete.com
07	Johnny Chapman (Stony Point, NC)	Toyota/Wear Your Gear/bobber.info
08	Ross Chastain (Alva, FL)	Toyota/Illiana Watermelon Assoc.
09	John Wes Townley (Waitville, GA)	Toyota/TBA
9	Ron Hornaday Jr. (Palmdale, CA)	Chevrolet/Anderson's Maple Syrup
11	Todd Bodine (Chemung, NY)	Toyota/Red Horse Racing
13	Johnny Sauter (Necedah, WI)	Toyota/Hot Honeys/Curb Records
17	Timothy Peters (Providence, NC)	Toyota/Red Horse Racing
18	Jason Leffler (Long Beach, CA)	Toyota/Dollar General
22	Joey Coulter (Miami Springs, FL)	Chevrolet/Richard Childress Racing
23	Jason White (Powhatan, VA)	Ford/JW Demolition/gunbroker.com
27	To Be Announced	Chevrolet/Hillman Racing
29	Parker Kligerman (Westport, CT)	Dodge/planitidiy.com
30	Nelson Piquet Jr (Brasilia, Brazil)	Chevrolet/Polen Design
31	James Buescher (Plano, TX)	Chevrolet/TBA
32	Miguel Paludo (New Silver, Brazil)	Chevrolet/Duroline Brakes
33	Cale Gale (Mobile, AL)	Chevrolet/Rheem
39	Ryan Sieg (Tucker, GA)	Chevrolet/RSS Racing
57	Norm Benning (Level Green, PA)	Chevrolet/Norm Benning Racing
68	Clay Greenfield (Clarksville, TN)	Dodge/@claygreenfield
73	Rick Crawford (Mobile, AL)	Chevrolet/Trans Pecos Trucking
81	David Starr (Houston, TX)	Toyota/Zachry
84	Chris Fontaine (Lakeland, FL)	Chevrolet/Glenden Enterprises
86	Blake Koch (West Palm Beach, FL)	Dodge/Clay Greenfield Motorsports
88	Matt Crafton (Tulare, CA)	Toyota/Menard's
92	Chad McCumbee (Supply, NC)	Chevrolet/BTS Tire & Wheel/QMI
93	Dennis Setzer (Newton, NC)	Chevrolet/RSS Racing
98	Dakoda Armstrong (New Castle, IN)	Toyota/everfi.com
99	Bryan Silas (Stuart, FL)	Ford/Rockingham Speedway

Leading Contenders (Finish the last three years)
Driver	2009	2010	2011
Nelson Piquet Jr	---	---	3rd
Parker Kligerman	---	---	4th
Johnny Sauter	5th	4th	6th
Matt Crafton	14th	7th	7th
Miguel Paludo	---	---	8th
Ron Hornaday Jr	11th	3rd	10th
James Buescher	20th	12th	11th
Todd Bodine	2nd	2nd	13th
Brendan Gaughan	---	---	14th
Justin Lofton	---	5th	15th
Timothy Peters	9th	21st	17th
Ty Dillon	---	---	---
Jason Leffler	---	---	---

Mover of the Week

Dennis Setzer - Started in 30th position and finished 19th

Sports Network Selections

Pick to Win - Johnny Sauter

Darkhorse - Jason Leffler

Last Week's Pick to Win (James Buescher) - Finished 30th

Last Week's Darkhorse (David Starr) - Finished 28th

NOTES:

Although Timothy Peters is the driver to beat this week in Chicago, he has yet to crack the top-8 in three appearances.

Peters, who won last week in Iowa, widening his lead to 12 points over Justin Lofton, has finished 9th, 21st and 17th in three previous races at Chicagoland Speedway.

His first win of the season was a dominant one, as he led 87 of the 200 laps after starting on the pole. In nine starts this year, only once has he finished outside the top-10.

Last season, Austin Dillon benefited from a late-race pit stop to win for the fourth time in his career. Dillon's No.3 Richard Childress Racing team made a quick and flawless two-tire change during a round of green-flag pit stops within the final 20 laps. Dillon then took the lead for good with 14 laps remaining and finished five seconds ahead of Kevin Harvick, who had dominated most of the race with 99 laps led.

Kyle Busch put on a dominating performance in 2010, but had to hold off a furious charge from pole sitter Todd Bodine in the closing laps to claim his fourth victory of that season and the 20th of 30 Camping World titles. His margin of victory was a slim, 0.186 seconds.

In 2009, Busch made a late-race pass on Todd Bodine for the lead and then held off Bodine on a restart with seven laps to go to win the inaugural Truck Series race at Chicagoland Speedway. Busch led for a race-high 79 laps after starting fourth on the grid. Pole sitter Matt Crafton led 23 laps, but placed 14th.

Not only will Busch be skipping this race, but defending champion Austin Dillon will be sitting this one out. Both drivers are racing on the Nationwide Circuit this week at Chicagoland.

The next Camping World Truck Series race is the August 4 Pennsylvania Mountains 125 at Pocono Raceway. Kevin Harvick won last year's race there.

07/17 13:56:29 ET

As of July 17, 2012, at 01:56 PM ET

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