Qualifying - Thurs, 2:00pm/et, SPEED channel  (Gatorade twin 150's) Happy Hour - Saturday, 10:30am/et, SPEED channel Race - Sunday, 3:15pm/et, FOX (coverage starts at 2:00) 

The recent cheating scandal at Daytona has cost team owner Ray Evernham a lot. Lead driver Kasey Kahne will lose 50 driver points and have his crew chief suspended for 4 races. Teammates Elliott Sadler and Scott Riggs will lose 25 driver points and also have their crew chiefs suspended for 4 races. Mr. Evernham will lose a total of 100 owner points (50 for Kahne, 25 each for Sadler and Riggs) all for “air improperly ducted into the car.” All parties involved deny any deliberate attempt to cheat. Sadler and Riggs had holes drilled into the fastners that attach the spoiler to the car in an attempt to bleed air out if the trunk. That seems pretty deliberate to me. Time for a reality check guys. By the way Roush driver Matt Kenseth is in the same boat.    

In another cheating incident Michael Waltrip has had his Toyota confiscated for a foreign substance found in his manifold. Team Waltrip says it’s just oil blowby. Nascar seems to think it’s sterno or some other substance used to increase combustion. I’m betting on Nascar. Lee White, the senior vice president for Toyota Racing Development had this to say. "We hold ourselves to a high standard and we hold our teams to high standards. We hope we've picked the right ones."

 Tony Stewart has six top 10 finishes (including two wins and one second) in the last six races at Daytona.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. has six top ten finishes (including one win and one second) in the last seven races here.

Watch out for Clint Boyer at Daytona. Clint only raced here twice and has managed a top ten finish each time (sixth and tenth) His average finish position of eight is the best of all drivers.

JJ Yeley on the other hand does not fair so well at Daytona. His average finish position of 39^th is the worst of all drivers.
 

Eight of the last ten races at Atlanta motor Speedway have been won from a top ten starting position and Tony Stewart won last Octobers race from eleventh place. In the history of the track 78% of the winners come from the top ten starting position.
 

In 2001 Kevin Harvick managed a first and a third place finish at Atlanta. Since then he hasn’t done crap. His best finish was nineteenth in 2003 and he has an average finish position of  29.8 over the last ten races here.