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Fresh off a ninth-place finish last weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Kasey Kahne returns to Atlanta Motor Speedway, a track the driver of the No. 9 Budweiser Ford notes as one of his favorites on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule. In 12 starts at the speedway, he has two wins, including last September’s Pep Boys Auto 500, in which he led on six occasions for a total of 60 laps.

Kahne has also scored one pole award, five top-five and seven top-10 finishes at AMS. His average start in the spring race at the track is 8.7 and his average finish is13.8.

Kahne’s ninth-place finish in last weekend’s Shelby American at LVMS vaulted him up 10 positions in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series point standings to 23rd. He sits 38 points outside of the top 20 and is just 98 points back from the 12th position.