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Race: Sunday, August 17, 2003 in Brooklyn, MI

TV: TNT - 2:00pm/et

Pre-Race Show: TNT - 1:30pm/et - hosted by Bill Weber

Announcers: Allen Bestwick, Benny Parsons, Wally Dallenbach

Pit Reporters: Bill Weber, Matt Yocum, Marty Snider, Dave Burns

War Wagon: Bill Weber and many guests

2002 Race Winner: Dale Jarrett, 140.556mph, started 8th

Track Race Record: Dale Jarrett, June 1999, 173.997mph (no cautions)

Track/Race Length: 2.0 oval, 200 laps, 400 miles

Pit Road Speed: 45mph

 

Track Specs:

Superspeedway: 2.0-mile D-shaped oval

Banking: turns: 18 degrees; straights: frontstretch 12 degrees, backstretch 5 degrees

Backstretch Length: 2,242 feet; Front stretch Length: 2,229 feet

73 feet wide with 10-foot apron in turns, 45 feet wide with 12-foot apron on straightaways

Pit lane is 50 feet wide and contains space for 44 individual pit areas

Seating: 136,000, attendence: 151,000.

 

Notes

The NASCAR Winston Cup Leader Bonus is $230,000 at Michigan for leading the points and winning the race (Sterling Marlin last won the award, $20,000 at Darlington on March 17, 2002). The $360,000 annual award is paid at $10,000 per race to the point leader at the end of each event if the driver is also the winner. The award increases by $10,000 each week the it goes unclaimed. If the point leader is not the race winner at the end of the year, the balance of the award is distributed among the top-10 finishers in the drivers point standings

 

53 Races since...: Leader bonus has been won. It's been 53 races since the NASCAR Winston Cup points leader won a race and took home the NASCAR Winston Cup Leader Bonus. #17-Matt Kenseth leads the series points and has the only shot at claiming the bonus at Michigan. Should a driver win the bonus at MIS, it would bypass the largest payout in the history of the program. #18-Bobby Labonte collected the biggest paycheck, $190,000, with a win at Indianapolis in 2000. The $10,000 bonus is available following every NASCAR Winston Cup Series race. If the point leader does not win the race, the bonus rolls over to the next week. Sterling Marlin last won the award, $20,000 at Darlington on March 17, 2002, it was NOT won by #15-Waltrip at Daytona, it rolled over to Rockingham.

 

How to Calculate Track Speeds: use the formula Speed = Distance divided by Time. Distance is Track Length, and Lap Time into Hours. Once hour is 3600 seconds, so the calculation for a 48 second lap at Daytona(2.5 miles) would be: Speed = 2.5 x (3600/48), = 2.5 x 75 = 187.500mph. For a 19 second lap at Bristol(.533 miles): Speed = .533 x (3600/19), = .533 x 189.474 = a speed of 100.990mph

 

MIS Sold Out: The Sirius 400 at Michigan International Speedway is sold out, their 25th consecuitive NASCAR Winston Cup sellout dating back to June 1991. MIS is totally sold out for Sunday with only $40 infield general admission remaining. So you will see no holes or empty seats and thetrack plans to make the August Cup race their 26 straight sellout.(6-15-2003)

 

 

MIS Gatorade Victory Lane Undergoes Facelift: Twenty years ago, Cale Yarborough rolled into the brand new victory lane at Michigan International Speedway on June 19, 1983. He became the first driver to visit the new MIS victory lane directly across from the start-finish line in the infield grass. His victory was quite fitting, as 14 years earlier Yarborough was the first Winston Cup driver to visit victory lane at MIS, as he captured the Inaugural Motor State 500 in 1969. As MIS prepares to christen a brand new victory lane, one thing is for certain: Yarborough will not be the winner since he retired in 1998. That means that a new driver will become a part of MIS history and visit the new Gatorade Victory Lane for the first time. When race fans enter the MIS gates to start the Sirius 400 weekend, they will notice that the MIS Victory Lane has undergone a facelift. The new Gatorade Victory Lane has been moved several feet to the North with a new concrete surface, shrubs and flowers. The now wider semi-circle is much bigger than its square predecessor, which was built prior to the 1983 season

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