2009 Checker Auto Parts 500
| Race details | |||
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| Race 35 of 36 in the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
Official logo of the race
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| Date | November 15, 2009 | ||
| Official name | Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 | ||
| Location | Phoenix International Raceway, Avondale, Arizona | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 1.000 mi (1.609 km) |
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| Distance | 312 laps, 312 mi (502.115 km) | ||
| Weather | Temperatures reaching up to 68 °F (20 °C); wind speeds up to 9.9 miles per hour (15.9 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 110.486 miles per hour (177.810 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Dale Earnhardt Inc. | ||
| Time | 26.643 | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Jimmie Johnson | Hendrick Motorsports | |
| Laps | 238 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 48 | Jimmie Johnson | Hendrick Motorsports | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | ESPN | ||
| Announcers | Jerry Punch, Dale Jarrett, and Andy Petree | ||
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The 2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 was the thirty-fifth and penultimate of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the ninth in the ten-race season-ending Chase for the Sprint Cup. It was held on November 15, 2009 at Phoenix International Raceway, in Avondale, Arizona before a crowd of 90,000. The 312-lap race was won by Jimmie Johnson of the Hendrick Motorsports team after starting from third position. Jeff Burton finished second and Denny Hamlin came in third.
Martin Truex, Jr. won the pole position, although he was passed by Kurt Busch by the end of the first lap. Fifty-six laps later, Johnson became the leader of the race. Many Chase for the Sprint Cup participants, including Jeff Gordon and Mark Martin ran in the top ten for most of the race. Johnson maintained the first position to lead the most laps of 238, and to win his seventh race of the season. There were four cautions and nine lead changes among four different drivers during the course of the race.
The race was Johnson's seventh win of the 2009 season, and the forty-seventh of his career. The result kept Johnson in the lead of the Drivers' Championship, one-hundred and eight points ahead of Mark Martin and one-hundred and sixty nine in front of Jeff Gordon. Chevrolet maintained their lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, fifty-eight ahead of Toyota, ninety-five in front of Ford and one-hundred and eight ahead of Dodge. The race attracted 5.17 million television viewers.
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