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NOTES: As we near the halfway point of the season, Kevin Harvick holds a 22- point advantage over Kyle Busch. This week's race at Infineon Raceway is the 16th of 36 races on the Sprint Cup Series schedule this year. Kasey Kahne will attempt to win the Toyota/Save Mart 350 for the second straight year, but it will be a difficult task, as no driver other than Jeff Gordon has ever accomplished this task in the 21-year history of the race. Gordon won at Sonoma, CA consecutively from 1998-2000. Last year at Sonoma, Kahne reclaimed the lead on the 80th lap and never looked back, as he outlasted Tony Stewart by 0.748 seconds for his 10th career Sprint Cup title. Pole sitter Brian Vickers led the opening 16 laps, but finished a distant 16th. Prior to his win at Sonoma, Kahne had never finished in the top-10 in a NASCAR road course race. His best finish was 14th, which came twice at Watkins Glen, NY. The victory also ended a 37-race drought, with his last win coming in June 2008 at Pocono, while driving for Gillett Evernham Motorsports. Prior to the start of the 2009 season, GEM aligned with Petty Enterprises to form Richard Petty Motorsports. After three average finishes in this race, Kyle Busch took the checkered flag in 2008, as he out dueled David Gilliland by 1.716 seconds for his ninth Sprint Cup title. Starting from the 30th position, Busch took the lead for the first time on lap 33, but was overtaken by Carl Edwards on lap 69. Edwards' advantage was short-lived, as Busch reclaimed the lead for good on lap 71, and then held it the rest of the way. Pole sitter Kasey Kahne led the first four laps, but was never a factor from there, as he finished 33rd. Currently second in points, Busch's Sprint Cup win total now stands at 22, including this two victories this season. In his 17th Sprint Cup start, Juan Pablo Montoya picked up his first win at Sonoma, as he took the checkered flag 4.097 seconds ahead of Kevin Harvick in 2007. Montoya, who started 32nd, claimed the lead from Jamie McMurray on lap 104, and then led the final seven circuits. McMurray, the pole sitter McMurray, wound up finishing 37th. Only four cars failed to finish the race, two of which ran out of gas (Bobby Labonte and Kyle Petty). With the victory, Montoya and Dodge snapped Chevrolet's four-year winning run at Sonoma. Robby Gordon led twice for a race-high 48 laps and finished 16th. Jeff Gordon continued Chevrolet's dominance of this race, as he won for the fifth time at Infineon Raceway in 2006. Gordon reclaimed the lead on lap 88, and the held it for the rest of the way to edge Ryan Newman by 1.250 seconds. Gordon led twice for a total of 44 laps, as he won for the 74th time in his Sprint Cup career. Pole sitter Kurt Busch finished fifth after leading the first 29 laps. Gordon's win total now stands at 82. Gordon is a road-course warrior with nine wins (five at Infineon and four at Watkins Glen). In 17 career starts at Infineon, Gordon has 10 top fives, 13 top-10s and five poles. Gordon has led the most laps there with 437, more than twice the total of Rusty Wallace (171), who has led the second most. Gordon's average finish at this track is 9.3 In 2005, Tony Stewart crossed the finish line 2.266 seconds ahead of Ricky Rudd to capture his 20th career Sprint Cup title. Before an estimated 100,000 in attendance, Stewart reclaimed the lead on lap 100 of the 110-lap event to edge Rudd. Pole sitter Jeff Gordon, who led the first 32 laps, finished 33rd. Stewart led for a total of 39 laps. Stewart also captured this race in 2000 and has an average finish of 9.3. In 1968, a twisting 12-turn, 2.52-mile road course and a quarter-mile drag strip were carved into the picturesque rolling hills at the gateway to the Sonoma Wine Country. Whether its amateur or professional SCCA road races, AMA and AFM motorcycle racing, exotic sports cars, vintage cars or the raw power of NASCAR Sprint Cup, NASCAR Trucks and NHRA drag races, Infineon Raceway has played host to some of the racing world's top events and its greatest moments. Racing legends such as Mario Andretti, Al Unser, Dan Gurney, Kenny Roberts, Shirley Muldowney, Dale Earnhardt and Don "The Snake" Prudhomme, as well as modern day stars including Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart, have all left their indelible marks at this unique and historic facility. Infineon is arguably the world's busiest racing facility, with track activity scheduled an average of 340 days a year. It is the nation's only high-performance automotive industrial park. Dale Earnhardt, who tragically died during a last-lap accident in the 2001 Daytona 500, meant the world to so many people, and the fans of Northern California were no different. To that end, Infineon Raceway honored the seven- time NASCAR Cup champion by naming the first completed project in its $35 million Modernization Plan after Earnhardt. The Turn 2 Hillside Terrace seats is known as the "Earnhardt Terrace." The entrance into the Earnhardt Terrace features a four-foot high monument for fans as a testament to the greatest driver in NASCAR Sprint Cup history. A black granite plaque at the top of the monument bears the familiar No.3. A second plaque on the side has the words "Earnhardt Terrace" engraved. The area also has a flag pole with the No.3 waving at the top. The monument will sit on a concrete platform overlooking sweeping views of the raceway and the surrounding Sonoma Valley. The monument is made of the same split-face concrete block that has been used to construct the 34,000 Hillside Terrace Seats above Turns 2-4 on the road course. Infineon Raceway was the site of the only NASCAR Sprint Cup road-course victory of Earnhardt's career in 1995. The pole sitter has won this race five times in the 21-year history of this event. In fact, 16 of the 21 races have been won from the top-10. When Montoya captured the 2007 race, he came from the 32nd starting position, the furthest a driver has started and gone on to capture the checkered flag. Jimmie Johnson will try to cross off So from his list of tracks where he has yet to win. Johnson's best finish in nine starts at Sonoma is fourth, which came one year ago. Former San Francisco 49ers running back Roger Craig will be the Grand Marshal this year. Robin Meade, the lead news anchor for HLN's morning show, will perform the National Anthem. The June 27th Lenox Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway is the next event on the Sprint Cup Series schedule. Joey Logano won last year's rain-shortened race there. 06/15 16:15:44 ET