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NOTES: Mark Martin's win last year was his first at Michigan since he won back-to-back races in 1997-98. Martin dominated MIS in the 90s, posting four Sprint Cup wins and two Nationwide titles. During that span, Martin had 25 top-10 finishes in 27 races. When Martin won in 2009, he started from the 32nd position and led only one lap, the final circuit for his third of five wins last season. Martin is winless this season in 14 starts, but ranks 11th on the points list with six top-10 finishes. His win total stands at 40. Jeff Gordon placed second in last year's race, while pole sitter Brian Vickers finished ninth. Jimmie Johnson dominated the race, leading for 146 laps, but an error in fuel consumption had him finishing 22nd. Johnson held the lead before running out of gas just short of crossing the line to start the final lap. Greg Biffle then inherited the top position, but he too ran out of fuel on the backstretch, allowing 50-year- old Martin to lead just the last lap. Dale Earnhardt Jr led only 14 laps in the 2008 race, but it was the final five laps that propelled him to victory, as he defeated Kasey Kahne under the caution for his 18th and last Sprint Cup title. With 31 lead changes among 13 drivers, the 2008 race was a wild event from start to finish. Jimmie Johnson led all drivers with 65 laps on six occasions, as he placed sixth. Earnhardt led five times, while Brian Vickers led four times for 44 laps. The win was the first for Earnhardt at this track in 19 previous Sprint Cup races. He has posted two Nationwide Series wins in Michigan. Back in 2007, Carl Edwards led three times for a race-high 63 laps, as he defeated Martin Truex Jr by 3.668 seconds for his fifth career Sprint Cup Series victory. Edwards, who started 12th on the grid, reclaimed the lead on lap 166 of the 200-lap race and held on for his first win since 2005 and the first of three victories in 2007. Edwards, who's victory total now stands at 16, won in 2007 in his 100th career Sprint Cup start. In 2006, Kasey Kahne defeated Edwards and the rain, as he recorded his fifth career Sprint Cup title. The 200-lap race was stopped after 129 laps and Kahne in the lead, as he recorded his fourth win of the 2006 season. Kahne, who started on the pole, led on four separate occasions for a total of 19 laps, while runner-up Edwards led for 25 laps after starting from the 31st position on the grid. Jeff Gordon, who started alongside Kahne, placed eighth after leading five times for a race-high 50 laps. The pole-sitter has won at this track 16 times in 81 previous races, including Kahne in 2006. Bill Elliott is a seven-time winner at Michigan, including four wins in this race and is a six-time Bud Pole winner. Elliott is third on the all-time list behind David Pearson (nine Michigan wins) and Cale Yarborough (eight). Cale Yarborough won $17,650 in the inaugural race in 1969 and leads all drivers with six victories in this race at Michigan Speedway. Jeff Gordon has raced 34 times at MIS with only two wins. Speed Racer does own 22 top-10 finishes in those starts with five poles. His average finish is 11.2. Don't look for Jimmie Johnson to contend at Michigan International Speedway. Johnson, currently sixth on the points list, has never won in 16 visits, with his best finish third in 2007. MIS is one of five Sprint Cup tracks that Johnson has never won on. The farthest back a race winner has started in this race is 32nd when Martin won last year, breaking the previous record of 28th set by Tony Stewart in 2000. Davey Allison in 1991-92 was the last back-to-back champion of this race. Michigan International Speedway first appeared on the NASCAR schedule in 1969, and the second race, on August 17, 1969, was 600 miles. That makes Michigan the only track other than Charlotte Motor Speedway to attempt a 600-mile race. That distance is considered tests of man and machine, and at Michigan, anticipation was high about how cars would handle its 2-mile oval. There have been 81 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at Michigan International Speedway - two a year since the first race there in 1969, except 1973 which had one. Adam Sandler and Kevin James will be serves as Grand Marshals for this week's race and will give the drivers the command to start their engines. The national anthem will be sung by the Army Chorus A Capella team. The Sprint Cup Series moves on to Sonoma, California for the June 20th Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway. Kasey Kahne is the defending race winner. 06/08 15:32:41 ET