#40 Pepsi 400 prerace report

July 2, 2002

STERLING MARLIN
COORS CHIP GANASSI RACING with FELIX SABATES
#40 COORS LIGHT DODGE INTREPID R/T
PRE-RACE REPORT: PEPSI 400

EVENT:			Pepsi 400 (race #17 of 36)
				Daytona International Speedway, 2.5-mile
tri-oval
			
		DATES:			Qualifying: Thursday, July 4th at
8:15 p.m. EDT
				Race: Saturday, July 6th at 7:30 p.m. EDT
			
BROADCAST:		Television: FOX pre-race show begins at 7 p.m. EDT
				Radio: MRN race coverage begins at 7:30 p.m.
EDT
				Race begins at 7:30 p.m. EDT

UPCOMING APPEARANCES
Sterling Marlin:
	*	July 4, 1:30 p.m., Daytona Fan Forum at Daytona USA

Coors Light Dodge show car: 
	*	July 4, 10am - 1pm, Publix, 1850 US 1, Florida
	*	July 4, 10am - 1pm, Daytona Dodge
	*	July 4, 2pm - 5pm, WalMart, 1590 Dunlawton Ave., Florida
	*	July 5, 10am - 1pm, WalMart, 1521 Grenada, Florida
	*	July 5, 2pm - 5pm, Daytona Dodge
	*	July 5, 2pm - 5pm, Publix, 2595 A1A, Florida

COORS LIGHT TEAM FACTS

*	Daytona International Speedway:  In 40 career starts at Daytona
International Speedway, Marlin has 11 top-5 and 19 top-10 finishes.  He has
three career wins and four career poles at the 2.5-mile tri-oval.
*	First career victory:  Marlin's first career victory was the 1994
Daytona 500.  In 1995, he became the first driver in history to record
Daytona 500 wins as his first two career NASCAR Winston Cup victories.
Marlin became the third driver to win back-to-back Daytona 500s.
*	First career pole:  Marlin earned his first-career NASCAR Winston
Cup pole position in the Pepsi 400 at Daytona International Speedway in
1991. 
*	Car: The Coors Light team will take car #005 to Daytona.  Car #005
is the same car that finished eighth in the Daytona 500 and fifth at
Talladega earlier this season.
*	Points Race: Marlin remains first in championship points for the
15th straight race (Rockingham to Sonoma).  He is the only driver to rank in
the top-10 in NASCAR Winston Cup championship points since the 2001 Daytona
500.