Chassis selection list for Talladega
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From Jayski.com, here are the chassis that cars are using for this weekend's race at Talladega:
- No. 2 Brad Keselowski: Chassis No. PRS-657: Last Raced: Daytona 1 (finished 3rd). Backup Chassis: PRS-649. Last Raced: Daytona 2 backup.
- No. 3 Austin Dillon: Chassis No. 468: This is the same Chevrolet SS that Dillon raced to a fifth-place finish at Daytona International Speedway in July securing his best finish in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, to date.
- No. 4 Kevin Harvick: Chassis No. 833: Harvick raced this car at Talladega in May and earned a seventh-place finish.
- No. 10 Danica Patrick: Chassis No. 10-758: This car was wind-tunnel tested in January 2013 before being used by Patrick in the 55th Daytona 500.
- No. 12 Ryan Blaney: Primary Chassis: PRS-655. Last Raced New Chassis. Backup Chassis: N/A
- No. 14 Tony Stewart: Chassis No. 14-762: This car made its debut during 2013 Budweiser Speedweeks at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway.
- No. 15 Clint Bowyer: Chassis No. 811 serves as the primary chassis for Bowyer at Talladega. This chassis raced at Daytona in July where Bowyer finished ninth. Chassis No. 754 serves as the backup.
- No. 16 Greg Biffle: Chassis No. RK-871: brand new chassis for the No. 16 team. Backup chassis RK-852 is the car Biffle drove in this race one year ago, culminating in an 11th-place finish.
- No. 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.: Chassis No. RK-909. Is the same chassis that the No.17 team ran at Daytona where Stenhouse Jr. had worked his way into the top-five before a multi-car accident on lap 19 sent the Cargill/Winn-Dixie Ford to the garage. Backup Chassis: RK-872 - new chassis.
- No. 22 Joey Logano: Chassis No. PRS-658. Last Raced: Daytona 1 (finished 11th). Backup Chassis: PRS-654. Last Raced: Daytona 2 backup
- No. 24 Jeff Gordon: Chassis No. 24-887. This chassis has been raced once with Gordon piloting it to a 12th-place finish at Daytona International Speedway in July.
- No. 27 Paul Menard: Chassis No. 445. This Richard Childress Racing-prepared chassis is the same Chevrolet SS that Menard drove at Daytona International Speedway in January, starting 10th and finishing 32nd, and at Talladega Superspeedway in May, starting second and finishing sixth.
- No. 31 Ryan Newman: Chassis No. 446: was utilized in the Daytona 500 on February 23 at Daytona International Speedway where the No. 31 team finished 22nd after being involved in two multi-car accidents.
- No. 41 Kurt Busch: Chassis No. 817 in Sunday's GEICO 500 at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway. The No. 41 team brought Chassis No. 817 back to Daytona again in July, when Busch finished third in the rain-delayed, rain-shortened Coke Zero 400.
- No. 47 A.J. Allmendinger: "Our Talladega Superspeedway car is one that we have had as a backup car this year," Crew chief Brian Burns said. "We haven't raced it and I don't know that it has ever been raced. It was a backup car at Richard Childress Racing that we bought. Its a fresh car for us."
- No. 48 Jimmie Johnson: Chassis No. 48-871. This was last raced at Daytona in July where Johnson finished 42nd due to an early-race crash. The backup car is Chassis No. 48-853, which was the fifth-place finishing Daytona 500 car.
- No. 55 Brian Vickers: Chassis No. 789. Finished fourth at Talladega in May. Backup: 753 finished 30th in the Daytona 500
- No. 66 Michael Waltrip: Chassis No. 810 Brian Vickers - Fourth (Talladega -1) & Brian Vickers - Second (Daytona-2). Back-up Chassis: No. 749 - Not Been Raced
- No. 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr.: Chassis No. 88-872. That chassis made its debut at Talladega in May and was most recently raced at Daytona International Speedway in July.
- No. 99 Carl Edwards: Chassis RK-913 was last run in 2014 at Daytona, starting in the 11th spot and finishing 37thafter being involved in an early wreck. Backup chassis RK-925. Hasn't been used in 2014.