lowe`s motor speedway

On the heels of a highly competitive showing during last weekend's Nextel Open All-Star qualifying race, Dave Blaney and the No.23 Bill Davis Racing team will attempt to qualify for this weekend's gruelling Coca Cola 600 at the Lowe's Motor Speedway.

After struggling to reach the minimum 43 entries for some of its earlier races this year, NASCAR will have no such problem this weekend as the lure of the longest race on the Nextel Cup schedule has attracted a season-high entry of more than 50 cars.

The prolonged and largely pointless 'field inversion' process during the middle segment of Saturday's Nextel All-Star Challenge may have gone down like a lead balloon with many in attendance at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte but one of this year's tweaks proved to be highly popular with fans