2009 Checker Auto Parts 500


2009 Sprint Cup Series
The Budweiser Shootout Gatorade Duels Daytona 500 Auto Club 500 Shelby 427 Kobalt Tools 500 Food City 500 Goody's Fast Pain Relief 500 Samsung 500 Subway Fresh Fit 500 Aaron's 499 Crown Royal 400 Southern 500 presented by GoDaddy.com Sprint Showdown and Sprint All-Star Race XXV Coca-Cola 600 Autism Speaks 400 Pocono 500 LifeLock 400 Toyota/Save Mart 350 Lenox Industrial Tools 301 Coke Zero 400 LifeLock.com 400 Allstate 400 at the Brickyard Pennsylvania 500 Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen Carfax 400 Sharpie 500 Pep Boys Auto 500 Chevy Rock & Roll 400
Chase for the Sprint Cup
Sylvania 300 AAA 400 Price Chopper 400 Pepsi 500 NASCAR Banking 500 TUMS Fast Relief 500 AMP Energy 500 Dickies 500 Checker Auto Parts 500 Ford 400 Non-points races in italics.

The 2009 Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 was the penultimate race of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season and the 2009 Chase for the Sprint Cup. The 312-lap 500 kilometres (310 mi) event on the 1 mile (1.6 km) circuit was held on November 15, 2009 at Phoenix International Raceway in the Phoenix, Arizona suburb of Avondale. ABC broadcast the race on television beginning at 3 PM US EST while MRN along with Sirius Satellite Radio had radio coverage starting at 2:45 PM US EST. Martin Truex Jr. won the pole and Kurt Busch started in second, making it the first time in NASCAR history that car #1 and #2 started in 1st and 2nd by that order. The race was won by Jimmie Johnson.