 Television coverage for the race , the seventh of a total of thirty @-@ six in the 2009 season , began at 1 : 30 p.m. EDT live in the United States on Fox . Roger Marsh of Texas Alliance Raceway Ministries began pre @-@ race ceremonies with the invocation . Pianist Lewis Warren , Jr. performed the national anthem , and Contest Winner Mark Fredde commanded the drivers to start their engines . No driver had to move to the rear of the grid at the start of the race . 
