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Dickies 500 NASCAR HotPass Lineup
Tuesday October 28, 2008
Ride Along with Burton, Earnhardt, J. Gordon and Johnson at Texas on DIRECTV
Event: Dickies 500
Previous Winner: Jimmie Johnson (beat Matt Kenseth by .944 of a second on Nov. 4, 2007)
Date / Time: Sunday, Nov. 2 at 3:30 p.m. EST
Track: Texas Motor Speedway
Configuration: 1.5-mile oval (334 laps = 501 miles)
Banking in Corners: 24 degrees
Banking on Frontstretch: 5 degrees
Banking on Backstretch: 5 degrees
Frontstretch: 2250 feet
Backstretch: 1330 feet
First Sprint Cup Series Race: April 6, 1997 – Interstate Batteries 500 (Winner – Jeff Burton)
Grandstand Seating Capacity: 159,585
In 2007, DIRECTV and NASCAR took the race-day television experience to new heights with the cutting-edge interactive television service, NASCAR HOTPASS™ only on DIRECTV. The new service featured dedicated driver channels offering viewers multiple camera angles, real-time statistics and announcer teams in addition to live communications between the drivers and their pit crews.
In addition to the four dedicated driver channels, DIRECTV raised the bar even higher in 2008, offering NASCAR HOTPASS in high-definition and upgrading it to include additional live audio feeds of driver-pit crew communications for 13 different teams.
DIRECTV Channel 795:
Jeff Burton & the No. 31 AT&T Chevrolet team of Richard Childress Racing
Jeff Burton will make his 509th career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start and his 16th at Texas Motor Speedway (TMS) in Fort Worth… The 41-year-old South Boston, Va., native has scored 21 wins and 211 top-10 finishes in 508 Sprint Cup starts…Burton has seven top-10 finishes at Texas, including two wins (April 1997 and April 2007)…Started 35th and finished sixth in the spring race at the 1.5-mile oval…Has finished in the top-10 in all 12 of his Nationwide Series starts at TMS…Started third and finished 18th last week at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga…2008 marks Burton’s 15th full season of Sprint Cup competition and he finished a career-best third in points in 2000…Won in March at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway and three weeks ago at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C…Has 17 top-10 finishes in 2008 and ranks fourth in Sprint Cup points.
Play-by-Play: Adam Alexander
Pit Road Reporter: Wendy Venturini
Producer: Keith D’Alessandro
DIRECTV Channel 796:
Dale Earnhardt, Jr., & the No. 88 AMP Energy / National Guard Chevrolet team of Hendrick Motorsports
Dale Earnhardt, Jr., will make his 325th career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start and his 13th at Texas Motor Speedway (TMS) in Fort Worth…Scored his first career Sprint Cup Series victory at TMS on April 2, 2000…Earnhardt has seven top-10 finishes in 12 starts at Texas and has won two poles (April 2001 and April 2008)…Started first and finished 12th in the April race at the 1.5-mile oval…Has three Nationwide Series starts at TMS with one win (April 1998) and three top-10 finishes…The 34-year-old Kannapolis, N.C., native has won 18 races and eight poles and scored 86 top-fives and 136 top-10s in 324 Sprint Cup starts… Started ninth and finished 11th last weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga…2008 marks Earnhardt’s ninth full year in Sprint Cup, with a career-best point finish of third in 2003…Has one win and 15 top-10 finishes in 2008…Ranks 10th in Sprint Cup points.
Play-by-Play: Rick Allen
Pit Road Reporter: Phil Parsons
Producer: Ted Laukaitis
DIRECTV Channel 797:
Jeff Gordon & the No. 24 DuPont / Nicorette team of Hendrick Motorsports
Jeff Gordon has 81 victories in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series competition…The 37-year-old from Vallejo, Calif., has four Sprint Cup championships (1995, 1997, 1998 and 2001)…Has 542 Sprint Cup starts and has finished in the top-10 in a staggering 334 of them (61.6 percent)…Will make his 16th start at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, one of only two tracks on the schedule (Homestead-Miami Speedway being the other) where Gordon has not scored a Sprint Cup Series victory…Has seven top-10 finishes at Texas and started 18th and finished 43rd after an accident in the spring race at the 1.5-mile oval…Finished ninth after starting seventh last week at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga…Has 66 career pole positions…Ranks sixth in 2008 Sprint Cup Series points with 11 top-five finishes.
Play-by-Play: Randy Pemberton
Pit Road Reporter: Hermie Sadler
Producer: John Walsh
DIRECTV Channel 798:
Jimmie Johnson & the No. 48 Lowe’s / Kobalt Tools team of Hendrick Motorsports
Jimmie Johnson is the two-time and reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion …The 33-year-old from El Cajon, Calif., has 39 Sprint Cup victories, including the Daytona 500 (2006) and the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard (2006 and 2008)…Has 252 Sprint Cup Series starts with 155 top-10 finishes (61.5 percent) and 18 career Sprint Cup poles…Will make his 11th start at Texas Motor Speedway (TMS) in Fort Worth, where he has one win (Nov. 2007), eight top-10 finishes and has never started worse than 18th…Started fifth and finished second in the spring race at TMS…Has two Nationwide Series starts at Texas and finished eighth in 2001…Started first and finished second last week at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga.…Ranks first in 2008 Sprint Cup Series points with six wins and 21 top-10 finishes.
Play-by-Play: Larry McReynolds
Pit Road Reporter: Matt Yocum
Producer: Tim Deroin
NASCAR HOTPASS lineup for the Checker O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 Nov. 9 at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Ariz.
No. 99 Carl Edwards: DIRECTV Channel 795
No. 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr.: DIRECTV Channel 796
No. 24 Jeff Gordon: DIRECTV Channel 797
No. 29 Kevin Harvick: DIRECTV Channel 798
Teams and drivers are subject to change at any time.
About NASCAR HOTPASS on DIRECTV:
NASCAR HOTPASS is available on a pay-per-week basis for $19.99. More information is available on www.directv.com/hotpass. DIRECTV customers can order online, or by calling 1-800-GET SPORTS.
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