This week's NASCAR race

Race distance: 400 laps/600 miles

Race forecast: Clear, high 70s

Last year’s winner: Kevin Harvick

Last year’s pole winner: Brad Keselowski, 192.089 mph

Track qualifying record: Elliott Sadler, 193.216 mph (October 2005)

Track facts: Sprint Cup champion Rusty Wallace heads the list of NASCAR Hall of Fame selections named Wednesday. Also named were owner Leonard Wood and drivers Cotton Owens, Herb Thomas and Buck Baker. Induction will be in February?…?Kevin Harvick passed Dale Earnhardt Jr. on the last lap to win last year’s race. It was the only lap Harvick led. Harvick was down a lap twice during the race. David Ragan finished second; Joey Logano was third?…?Matt Kenseth won the fall race at the track?…?Danica Patrick will be only the second woman to start the 600. Janet Guthrie was the first, in 1976?…?Jimmie Johnson (six wins) is tied with retirees Bobby Allison and David Pearson for most W’s at Charlotte. Jeff Gordon is a five-time winner (last W: 2007)?…?Points leader Greg Biffle is 0-for-18 Charlotte Cup starts?…?Darrell Wallace Jr. had an impressive ninth-place finish in his Nationwide Series debut Sunday at Iowa Speedway. Wallace is a product of NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity program.

Wins: Tony Stewart, Denny Hamlin, Brad Keselowski, 2 each; Matt Kenseth, Ryan Newman, Greg Biffle, Kyle Busch, Jimmie Johnson, 1 each.

STANDINGS

?1. Greg Biffle 411

?2. Matt Kenseth 409

?3. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 397

?4. Denny Hamlin 394

?5. Jimmie Johnson 372

?6. Martin Truex Jr. 372

?7. Tony Stewart 369

?8. Kevin Harvick 361

?9. Kyle Busch 349

10. Carl Edwards 337

11. Clint Bowyer 335

12. Brad Keselowski 328

Up next: FedEx 400 Benefitting Autism Speaks, June 3, Dover International Speedway, Dover, Del., 1 p.m.; TV: Fox; last year’s winner: Matt Kenseth.

?– Bill Fleischman