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Two is the loneliest number at Richmond.By the Numbers: Richmond
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Paul Menard, Jeff Burton and Greg Biffle have got to be tired of this whole bridesmaid thing. At least at Richmond, anyway.
They are the three drivers who have finished second in the last three races at the .75-mile short track. And two of them hope to change that in Friday's Circuit City 250 (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN2).
Menard isn't running the race, making him the only driver among last fall's top-10 finishers who are not entered this weekend.
Burton and Biffle are.
Burton, a Virginia native, has a pair of victories and 11 top-10s in 20 starts at the track. But he also has eight DNFs. If he finishes the race, he finishes well; his worst performance aside from the DNFs is 11th.
Biffle has 11 starts at Richmond, seven of which were top-10 finishes. He's riding a string of six consecutive races at the track where his worst finish is 11th.
They have, at least, changed things up a bit each time the checkered flag waved. That's not the case with two of the drivers they were racing.
Interesting Fact
1, 3Positions Kevin Harvick and Matt Kenseth have finished in the last three Richmond races. Harvick has won three in a row and Kenseth has finished third in each of those races.
Fun Fact
129.572 mphAverage speed in last year's IRL race won by Sam Hornish Jr., the fastest race ever held at Richmond International Raceway. Hornish will return to run Friday night's Busch Series race. The record for fastest average speed in a Busch race at RIR is 104.928 mph in 1995, won by Dale Jarrett.
All the Facts
1Winner since 2000 who had a starting position worse than 15th. Twelve of the 14 races were won by drivers starting inside the top 10.
6Consecutive Richmond races -- and nine of the last 10 -- that have had 10 or more cautions, including last fall's race which tied a track record with 14 yellow flags.
6Former Richmond winners who are entered in Friday night's race: Kevin Harvick (4), Jeff Burton (2), Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards, Jeff Green and Morgan Shepherd.
6.5Average finish for Matt Kenseth in 14 races at Richmond.
6.9Average finish for Kevin Harvick in 12 races at Richmond.
8.22Average starting position for Richmond winners with 27 of the 46 races being won from a top-five starting spot. Eight races have been won from the pole.
10Victories by a Chevrolet in the last 12 Richmond races. The other two were won by Ford drivers Jason Keller (spring 2002) and Carl Edwards (spring 2005).
22.5Percent of laps during the last four Richmond races that Kevin Harvick had the fastest car, or 153 of 1,006 laps.
40.06Percent of passes that were made on the frontstretch during the past four Richmond races, the most popular place to pass. No other area of the track saw more than 14 percent of passing.
73Points that separate fifth-place Bobby Hamilton Jr. and 12th-place Juan Montoya in the series standings.
101Points that separate second-place Kevin Harvick and fourth-place David Reutimann in the series standings.
126.8Driver Rating for Kevin Harvick at Richmond, the highest of all drivers.
215Green-flag passes made by Greg Biffle in the last four Richmond races. Biffle's average start in his career at Richmond is 13.2 compared to his average finish of 13.0. He finished fourth and second at RIR last year.
609Laps led by Jeff Burton, more than any other driver entered in Friday's race. Matt Kenseth has led 184 laps, the most by a driver who has not won at the track.
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Official Standings
| Pos. | +/- | Driver | Points | Behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | -- | Carl Edwards | 1664 | Leader |
| 2. | +1 | Kevin Harvick | 1231 | -433 |
| 3. | -1 | Dave Blaney | 1168 | -496 |
| 4. | +1 | David Reutimann | 1130 | -534 |
| 5. | +4 | Bobby Hamilton Jr. | 1052 | -612 |
| 6. | -2 | Matt Kenseth | 1048 | -616 |
| 7. | +6 | David Ragan | 1025 | -639 |
| 8. | -2 | Kyle Busch | 1016 | -648 |
| 9. | -1 | Marcos Ambrose | 1009 | -655 |
| 10. | -3 | Mike Wallace | 994 | -670 |
• Complete Standings click here
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