Good Sam 500

Good Sam 500

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Venue	Phoenix International Raceway
Location	Avondale, Arizona, United States
Corporate sponsor	Good Sam Enterprises
First race	2005
Distance	312 miles (502.115 km)
Laps	312
Previous names	Subway Fresh 500 (2005–2006) Subway Fresh Fit 500 (2007–2009, 2011–2013) Subway Fresh Fit 600 (2010) The Profit on CNBC 500 (2014) CampingWorld.com 500 (2015)
Most wins (driver)	Kevin Harvick (4)
Most wins (team)	Hendrick Motorsports Stewart-Haas Racing (4)
Most wins (manufacturer)	Chevrolet (9)
Circuit information
Surface	Asphalt
Length	1 mi (1.6 km)
Turns	4

The Good Sam 500 is a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held annually at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Arizona. The 312-lap event is one of only four NASCAR Cup Series events measured in kilometers rather than miles or laps (joining the fall Phoenix race and both road course events). The 500-kilometer (312 mi) race currently starts at 3:30 p.m. EST and finishes during the day.

Race history

As part of the 2005 NASCAR Realignment, a second date was awarded to Phoenix with Subway sponsorship. As there was already a race sponsored by Subway on the schedule (the now Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500 at Martinsville), the name "Subway Fresh 500" was devised to reduce confusion. Subway later added the word "Fit" to the sponsorship to promote its Fresh Fit combo choices.

This event swapped dates with the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway due to the three race west coast swing, this event used to be race 2 preceding Daytona and Las Vegas before Atlanta took Phoenix's former spot, the Food City 500 at Bristol used to be race 4 before the Food City 500 moved up four weeks due to bad weather, on April 19, 2015.

With the new 2010 NASCAR start time rule change that starts races only at 1:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m., and 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time, track officials were concerned that the new start time (45 minutes earlier than in the past) would put the majority of the race in the day instead of the planned night. At that time of year in Phoenix, sunset takes place at roughly 7:00 p.m. MST (because Arizona does not observe daylight saving time, this is the same as Pacific Daylight Time). As a result, the race was stretched to 600 kilometers (375 miles) so that the extra 100 kilometers (63 miles) would take place during the day, and most of the race would still take place at night as planned.^[1] However, in 2011, the race moved one week after the Daytona 500 in February. The race returned to 312 laps (500 kilometers) and was run on Sunday in the daytime for the first time. In 2015, Phoenix moved from the second to the fourth race of the season in mid-March.^[2]

Past winners

Year	Date	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Race Distance		Race Time	Average Speed (mph)	Report
					Laps	Miles (km)
2005	April 23	Kurt Busch	Roush Racing	Ford	312	312 (502.115)	3:02:16	102.707	Report
2006	April 22	Kevin Harvick	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	312	312 (502.115)	2:54:51	107.063	Report
2007	April 21	Jeff Gordon	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	312	312 (502.115)	2:53:48	107.71	Report
2008	April 12	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports (2)	Chevrolet	312	312 (502.115)	3:01:14	103.292	Report
2009	April 18	Mark Martin	Hendrick Motorsports (3)	Chevrolet	312	312 (502.115)	2:53:16	108.042	Report
2010	April 10	Ryan Newman	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	378*	378 (608.332)	3:48:14	99.372	Report
2011	February 27	Jeff Gordon (2)	Hendrick Motorsports (4)	Chevrolet	312	312 (502.115)	3:01:49	102.961	Report
2012	March 4	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	312	312 (502.115)	2:50:35	110.085	Report
2013	March 3	Carl Edwards	Roush Fenway Racing (2)	Ford	316*	316 (508.553)	3:00:15	105.187	Report
2014	March 2	Kevin Harvick (2)	Stewart-Haas Racing (2)	Chevrolet	312	312 (502.115)	2:51:23	109.229	Report
2015	March 15	Kevin Harvick (3)	Stewart-Haas Racing (3)	Chevrolet	312	312 (502.115)	2:57:01	105.753	Report
2016	March 13	Kevin Harvick (4)	Stewart Haas Racing (4)	Chevrolet	313*	313 (503.724)	2:45:53	113.212	Report

• 2010, 2013 & 2016: Race extended due to a green–white–checker finish.

Multiple winners (drivers)

# Wins	Driver	Years Won
4	Kevin Harvick	2006, 2014, 2015, 2016
2	Jeff Gordon	2007, 2011

Multiple winners (teams)

# Wins	Team	Years Won
4	Hendrick Motorsports	2007, 2008, 2009, 2011
	Stewart-Haas Racing	2010, 2014, 2015, 2016
2	Roush Fenway Racing	2005, 2013

Manufacturer wins

# Wins	Manufacturer	Years Won
9	Chevrolet	2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016
2	Ford	2005, 2013
1	Toyota	2012

Notable moments

• 2007: Jeff Gordon wins for the first time at Phoenix from the pole (the first winner from the pole at Phoenix), scoring his 76th Cup Series win (tying Dale Earnhardt). After the race, Gordon celebrated with a black flag with the #3 of Earnhardt emblazoned on it.^[3]
• 2011: Jeff Gordon snaps a 66-race winless streak (longest of his career) and ties Cale Yarborough with his 83rd career win.
• 2013: Carl Edwards wins in a Subway-sponsored car in the Subway-sponsored race and snaps a 70-race winless streak.

Television broadcasters

Year	Network	Lap-by-lap	Color commentator(s)
2005	Fox	Mike Joy	Darrell Waltrip Larry McReynolds
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016			Darrell Waltrip Jeff Gordon

Notes

1. "News & Media". NASCAR.com. Retrieved 2014-02-26.
2. "NASCAR reveals 2015 schedules for national series". NASCAR. August 26, 2014. Retrieved August 26, 2014.
3. "Memorable Moments: Phoenix". NASCAR. November 7, 2013. Retrieved November 7, 2013.

External links

• NASCAR Commentators Crews and Networks