Arena: Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Location: Las Vegas NV

Date: March 11, 2012

NASCAR Betting Online: The Kobalt Tools 500 is a NASCAR Sprint Cup stock car race that is actually 500.5 miles (805.5 km) in length held in March 2010. Just a few miles north of The Strip, Las Vegas Motor Speedway sits like a diamond in the desert. One of the most complete racing complexes in the world, its 1,600 acres include road courses, a three-eighths mile oval, a dirt track and a state-of-the-art drag racing facility.

It includes 24 degrees of banking in each of the turns. Between the track’s high banking and the fact that the Kobalt 500 is not a restrictor plate race, the combination results in higher average speeds here in Atlanta than at even the faster superspeedways in Daytona and Talladega.

NASCAR Sprint Cup's finest take on one of the fastest tracks in racing when the Kobalt Tools 500 (formerly Golden Corral 500) hits Atlanta Motor Speedway.

The Kobalt Tools 500 began in 1960 as the Atlanta 500. Since that time this race is one of the between NASCAR fans. The Kobalt Tools 500 is one of two races held at Atlanta Motor Speedway. The other race is the Pep Boys Auto 500 in September.

It is home of a 400-mile race in the Cup Series, as well as Nationwide and Truck series events.

The first NASCAR race held at Las Vegas Motor Speedway was a Truck Series event in 1996. The Nationwide Series held a race there in 1997, and a year later the Cup Series made its first visit with Mark Martin picking up the victory in 1998.

As the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series visits Atlanta Motor Speedway for the Kobalt Tools 500, Carl Edwards will return to the site where the current star exploded onto the NASCAR scene and will commemorate his achievements from five-years earlier.

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2012 Kobalt Tools 400 Winner - Stewart Takes Off To Win Kobalt Tools 400

Tony Stewart can cross off the Las Vegas Motor Speedway from the list of tracks he had yet to score a victory as he launched his Chevrolet on late restarts to hold off Jimmie Johnson for the win in the Kobalt Tools 400.

Stewart dove three-wide for the lead on one of the restarts and then turned back challenges from Matt Kenseth, Greg Biffle and Johnson to maintain the top spot as a final caution flag on lap 261 set up a four-lap dash for the win. As the green flag appeared, Stewart took off once again ahead of Johnson as behind them Roush-Fenway Racing teammates Kenseth, Biffle, and Carl Edwards raced three-wide for position, resulting in Kenseth's car bouncing off the turn two wall with Edwards and Biffle losing ground to the leaders. That left Johnson as Stewart's main competition for the win and while he could get to Stewart's rear bumper, Stewart proved to be too strong and he crossed the finish line for his first career win at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

2011 Kobalt Tools 400 results - Carl Edwards Takes Another In Vegas

The great thing about NASCAR Sprint Cup races is that the winner isn't always the driver and team with the fastest car, but rather the driver and team that put themselves in a position to capitalize when the team with the fastest car falter.

That was the case Sunday, as a pit-road miscue by Tony Stewart and the No. 14 team cleared the way for Carl Edwards and his No. 99 team to win the Kobalt Tools 400, their first victory of the 2011 season and their third in the last five Sprint Cup races, dating back to 2010.

Stewart, who led 163 of the 267 laps, lost the lead on lap 151 when he was penalized for tugging an air hose out of his pit box. The hose, according to crew chief Darian Grubb, hooked itself around the left-rear quarter panel of Stewart's Chevrolet as he was pulling away. The crew was unable to remove the hose before it slid out of the pit box, forcing Stewart to the rear of the field.

He would regain the lead by taking two tires on his next pit stop and pull well ahead of second-placed Juan Pablo Montoya, but on his final pit stop, Grubb had to put four tires on the car while most of his rivals took two.

Those included Edwards, who grabbed the lead on the final cycle of stops and held off a hard-charging Stewart to win by just over one second.