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While Daytona marked its 50 running of the Daytona 500, California is next. Ryan Newman(12)  leads the points by 15 points over Kurt Bush(2) his teammate.Here are the points standing as of Daytona

1 -- Ryan Newman 190 Leader 1 0 1 1 1 1,543,040 2 -- Kurt Busch 175 -15 1 0 0 1 1 1,099,770 3 -- Tony Stewart 170 -20 1 0 0 1 1 986,049 4 -- Kyle Busch 170 -20 1 0 0 1 1 652,938 5 -- Reed Sorenson 160 -30 1 0 0 1 1 598,959 6 -- Kasey Kahne 151 -39 1 0 0 0 1 434,204 7 -- Elliott Sadler 150 -40 1 0 0 0 1 430,015 8 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. 143 -47 1 0 0 0 1 567,920 9 -- Greg Biffle 139 -51 1 0 0 0 1 346,663 10 -- Bobby Labonte 130 -60 1 0 0 0 0 329,756 11 -- Jeff Burton 129 -61 1 0 0 0 0 323,496 12 -- Brian Vickers 127 -63 1 0 0 0 0 285,245 13 -- Kevin Harvick 121 -69 1 0 0 0 0 322,224 14 -- Sam Hornish Jr.* 118 -72 1 0 0 0 0 319,845 15 -- Denny Hamlin 117 -73 1 0 0 0 0 387,416 16 -- Dale Jarrett 115 -75 1 0 0 0 0 318,213 17 -- David Reutimann 109 -81 1 0 0 0 0 291,221 18 -- Carl Edwards 106 -84 1 0 0 0 0 363,520 19 -- Martin Truex Jr. 103 -87 1 0 0 0 0 335,796 20 -- Scott Riggs 100 -90 1 0 0 0 0 287,928 21 -- Paul Menard 97 -93 1 0 0 0 0 279,295 22 -- Clint Bowyer 96 -94 1 0 0 0 0 324,545 23 -- Jeremy Mayfield 94 -96 1 0 0 0 0 271,220 24 -- J.J. Yeley 88 -102 1 0 0 0 0 315,095 25 -- Jimmie Johnson 87 -103 1 1 0 0 0 394,106 26 -- Jamie McMurray 85 -105 1 0 0 0 0 308,706 27 -- Michael Waltrip 81 -109 1 0 0 0 0 318,135 28 -- David Gilliland 79 -111 1 0 0 0 0 313,646 29 -- Travis Kvapil 73 -117 1 0 0 0 0 291,202 30 -- Mark Martin 70 -120 1 0 0 0 0 348,846 31 -- Juan Montoya 67 -123 1 0 0 0 0 290,753 32 -- Dario Franchitti* 64 -126 1 0 0 0 0 270,613 33 -- Kyle Petty 61 -129 1 0 0 0 0 260,320 34 -- Matt Kenseth 60 -130 1 0 0 0 0 308,129 35 -- Casey Mears 58 -132 1 0 0 0 0 334,945 36 -- Dave Blaney 54 -136 1 0 0 0 0 307,563 37 -- Regan Smith* 52 -138 1 0 0 0 0 267,095 38 -- Jeff Gordon 51 -139 1 0 0 0 0 374,099 39 -- John Andretti 43 -147 1 0 0 0 0 258,613 40 -- Robby Gordon 42 -148 1 0 0 0 1 352,921 41 -- Joe Nemechek 40 -150 1 0 0 0 0 258,470 42 -- David Ragan 37 -153 1 0 0 0 0 267,763 43 -- Kenny Wallace 34 -156 1 0 0 0 0 256,735 44 -- A.J. Allmendinger 0 -190 0 0 0 0 0 22,345 45 -- Bill Elliott 0 -190 0 0 0 0 0 54,088 46 -- Ken Schrader 0 -190 0 0 0 0 0 62,038 47 -- Boris Said 0 -190 0 0 0 0 0 22,170 48 -- Patrick Carpentier* 0 -190 0 0 0 0 0 23,013 49 -- Eric McClure 0 -190 0 0 0 0 0 22,988 50 -- Sterling Marlin 0 -190 0 0 0 0 0 22,095 51 -- Jacques Villeneuve* 0 -190 0 0 0 0 0 22,863 52 -- Stanton Barrett 0 -190 0 0 0 0 0 22,813 53 -- Carl Long 0 -190 0 0 0 0 0 21,920

Robby Gordon finished in the tenth position Nascar found him with an unapproved front bumber he was docked 100 driver and owner points. Crew Chief suspended for 6 races and will return Aoril 9,2008.  The season heads on to California for the Auto Club 500. Starts a 3:30 on your local Fox 5 station.

The Daytona 500 marked 50 years of the Great American race. Ryan Newman was the race winner. His car nows stay at Daytona USA until they come back next year. Newman also made history by getting Roger Penske a win for the Daytona 500 and a 1-2 finish with Kurt Bush. Dodges got 6 out of the top 8 positions at the end of the 500. They move on to California