No. 5 Clint Bowyer

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Clint Bowyer hasn't been starting all that great in his past five NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races, but he has been finishing great.
Since the Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway on April 6, Bowyer has started no better than 24th. But he has finihsed no worse than 15th. Four of those races were in the top 10, two in the top five and he won the race at Richmond International Raceway.
All that adds up to a fifth-place spot in the Cup standings.
He has to like his chances to move up from fifth place after the Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
He was second in the Cup race at Lowe's in the fall.
"I still feel like we still need to learn a little bit, especially after the way we ran last Saturday night," said Bowyer, driver of the No. 07 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing. "It felt like the groove moved up in the fall race last year and I never thought in a million years I'd be running around up against the wall at Charlotte. We made it work and were one of the fastest cars all night long. It's going to be interesting to see how the new style car is going to race for 600 miles."
This will be the first points race with NASCAR's new stock car at Lowe's. And this will be the first 600-mile race for the new stock car. His team is bringing a brand new car for him to race on Sunday night.
"It's a long race," Bowyer said. "Last year we crashed. Everybody kind of crashed in the beginning and it was a nightmare. We just rode around. We still had to endure the heat and fatigue but, for the most part, we were out of the race. It was still hot and we were out there for a long time. It still took a toll but there was no reward to race for, other than just finishing."

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