Kahne wins again with fans in speedway balloting
Thursday, May. 14, 2009
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DARLINGTON, SC - MAY 09: Jimmie Johnson, driver of the #48 Lowe's Chevrolet, races Kasey Kahne, driver of the #9 Budweiser Dodge, during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Southern 500 on May 9, 2009 at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. (Photo by John Harrelson/Getty Images)
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DARLINGTON, SC - MAY 09: Kasey Kahne, driver of the #9 Budweiser Dodge, makes a pit stop during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Southern 500 on May 9, 2009 at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. (Photo by Jerry Markland/Getty Images for NASCAR)
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DARLINGTON, SC - MAY 08: Kasey Kahne, driver of the #9 Budweiser Dodge, stands in the garage during practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Southern 500 on May 8, 2009 at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. (Photo by Jerry Markland/Getty Images for NASCAR)
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Lowe's Motor Speedway chairman Bruton Smith, left, and defending race champion Kasey Kahne, right, unveil a new winner's trophy for the NASCAR Sprint Series Coca-Cola 600 auto race during a news conference at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Monday, May 4, 2009. The trophy was made to celebrate the 50th running of the race later this month. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
Driver Kasey Kahne, taking part in an event promoting this month's Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe's Motor Speedway, comments on the trophy that will be up for grabs in the 50th running of NASCAR's longest race. (HHP/Harold Hinson)
Race fans have selected Kasey Kahne's win in the 2008 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race as the greatest racing moment in Lowe's Motor Speedway's history through a contest conducted on the speedway‘s Web site.
In the final round of voting, Kahne's all-star win, which was possible only because Kahne was voted into the field by fans, was paired against 1992's race, in which Davey Allison battled Kyle Petty for the win in the first race held under the lights.
“The fans got me into the All-Star Race last year and I owe that victory to them. It's pretty cool that they've voted that moment as the best,” Kahne said. “The speedway has a lot of history and I am proud to be a part of it.”
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