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Jason Keller has put his stamp of approval on this years crop of rookie drivers. (Photo: LAT Photographic)
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Some might call it an anomaly, but the string of 22 different winners in 22 NASCAR Nationwide Series races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway stands as the longest such streak at active tracks in each of NASCAR’s national series.
When the 2009 season started, four NASCAR Nationwide tracks had no multiple winners — Circuit Gilles Villeneuve (two); Kansas Speedway (eight); Kentucky Speedway (eight) and New Hampshire. But Joey Logano (No. 20 GameStop Toyota) knocked Kentucky off the list earlier this month with his second consecutive win at the 1.5-mile track.
There has been at least one repeat winner in each of the races on the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule. There are four tracks on this year’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series schedule where there has yet to be a repeat winner, but the longest streak at any of them is 10 races.
Seven drivers have a shot to become the first to repeat at Loudon — Jason Keller (No. 27 Kleenex Ford), Kenny Wallace (No. 28 U.S. Border Patrol Chevrolet), Kevin Harvick (No. 33 Copart.com Chevrolet), Carl Edwards (No. 60 Scotts/Ortho Ford), Derrike Cope (No. 73 Derrike Cope Inc. Dodge), Bobby Hamilton Jr. (No. 81 MacDonald Motorsports Dodge) and Joe Nemechek (No. 87 NEMCO Motorsports Chevrolet).
Technically, there is one repeat winner at New Hampshire — Roush Fenway Racing team owner Jack Roush. His victories came in 2004 with drivers Matt Kenseth and ‘06 with Edwards.
Six former series champions are also entered for this event — Harvick, Edwards, Nemechek, Greg Biffle (No. 16 CitiFinancial Ford), Brian Vickers (No. 32 Dollar General Toyota) and Clint Bowyer (No. 29 Holiday Inn Chevrolet).
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