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Date: Friday, November 5th

Start Time: 9:19 p.m. (et)

Site: Texas Motor Speedway (1997) -- Fort Worth, Texas

Track: 1.5-mile oval - 2,250 feet (Frontstretch); 1,330 feet (Backstretch)

Laps: 147

Miles: 220.5 (350 kilometers)

Capacity: 159,585

Total purse: $573,960 (2009 figures)

Payouts: 1st Place - $66,400; 2nd Place - $43,095; 3rd Place - $31,465

Year: 12th

On TV: Speed Channel

Busch leaped an incredible six positions in the standings and is sixth, 228 points behind the leader, Jimmie Johnson. Busch is a former Talladega winner, in April 2008, but that is his only top-five or top-10 finish in 10 starts there. He was 25th in this race last year and 15th in November. "The key there is to somehow stay out of trouble," he said. "At Talladega, you pretty much stay around the bottom, since there is a lot of grip there, and you can pretty much run wide open every single lap. Everyone can run up on top of each other. When you get single-file at the bottom, sometimes it's hard to get a lane on the outside with enough good cars to get something going. It can be frustrating, at times, because of that. It also seems to still put on a good race each time we go there. If you can be a contender and stay in line on the bottom, you can make it a pretty easy and safe race. Normally, guys are not content doing that, so that's when it starts to get crazy."