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California native Jeff Gordon won the spring race at Fontana. Credit: Autostock

By the Numbers: Pop Secret 500

By Dave Rodman, NASCAR.COM
September 3, 2004
11:36 AM EDT (15:36 GMT)

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- California Speedway has a short history in NASCAR Nextel Cup racing, but it has moved itself quickly into position to become a key venue to the sport's growth, only seven years after its 1997 inaugural.

California is the penultimate stop in the countdown to the inaugural Chase for the Nextel Cup; and while the nerves of the drivers on the bubble are getting more ragged by the week, the entire field is anxious to score a victory in California Speedway's first Labor Day Nextel Cup race.

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Jeff Gordon, the most recent California winner in the spring of 2004, has his name all over his home state track's record book and looks poised to add to the track's statistical legacy in Sunday's Pop Secret 500.

  • 0 -- The number of California's eight Cup races won from the pole position.

  • 3 -- Jeff Gordon's leading number of Cup victories at California.

  • 3 -- The number of drivers who have competed in all eight Cup races at California without a DNF: Jeff Burton, Jeff Gordon and Terry Labonte.

  • 4 -- The number of California's eight Cup races won from starting positions inside the top-10, or 50 percent.

  • 4 -- Ryan Newman's average starting position in three California Cup races.

  • 5 -- Jeff Gordon's leading number of top-five finishes at California.

  • 5 -- Jeff Gordon and Bobby Labonte's leading number of top-10 finishes at California.

  • 5.875 -- Jeff Gordon's leading average finish in eight California Cup starts.

  • 7 -- The number of the eight California Cup races in which at least five of the top-10 finishers started outside the top-10.

  • 10.25 -- Rusty Wallace's leading average start at California, best among drivers with more than three starts here.

  • 16 -- The number of drivers who have competed in all eight Cup races at California Speedway.

  • 24 -- Jeremy Mayfield's starting position for the 2000 NAPA Auto Parts 500, the furthest back a race winner has started at California.

  • 410 -- Jeff Gordon's leading total of laps led in eight California Cup races.

  • 155.012 -- Jeff Gordon's California race record average speed, set in three hours, 13 minutes and 32 seconds in June 1997.

  • 187.432 -- Ryan Newman's California track record Bud Pole Qualifying speed, set in 38.414 seconds in April 2002.

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