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Jack Sprague won this race last year and would like to make his 400th NASCAR start a special one by repeating.

By the Numbers: M'ville

By Bill Kimm, NASCAR.COM
October 18, 2007
10:34 AM EDT

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Last year in the Martinsville fall race, Jack Sprague led 95 laps en route to his second win on the season. This year, as the Truck Series returns to Martinsville for the Kroger 200 on Saturday (2:30 p.m. ET, SPEED), it will again be a special day for Sprague and the No. 60 team.

Sprague will make his 400th NASCAR national series start when he takes the green flag. He has 267 Truck Series starts, 108 Busch Series starts and 24 Cup Series starts. In that time he has won 29 events, 28 of them in the Truck Series with his lone Busch Series win coming in 2002, when he won at Nashville.

That year, Sprague finished fifth in the Busch Series points standings with a win, nine top-fives and 15 top-10s.

In the Truck Series, Sprague is the only three-time champion, winning the title in 1997, 1999 and 2001. In 10 full Truck Series seasons, Sprague has finished no worse than eighth in points.

Interesting Fact

14Points difference between leader Ron Hornaday and Mike Skinner, the second closest with five races remaining in Truck Series history. The closest is five and it happened twice, in 1998 and 2005. In both instances, the leader at that time did not go on to win the title.

Fun Fact

$5,597,703The amount of money in the purses of the 17 Truck Series races held at Martinsville, which sounds like a lot until you compare it to what race sponsor Kroger, the largest grocery chain in the country, reported as their annual sales last year, $60.5 billion. Kroger is the third largest general retail chain in the country, behind Wal-Mart and Home Depot.

All the Facts

0No driver has won at Martinsville in their championship season.

1Only one driver, A.J. Foyt, has won the Indy 500 and a NASCAR event in the same season when he did in 1964. Dario Franchitti will look to be the second if he makes the field in Martinsville.

3Number of Chase contenders entered in this week's Truck Series race: Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin and Clint Bowyer. Interestingly, no driver has completed a weekend sweep at Martinsville.

4Number of drivers who have an average finish in the top 10 in a Truck Series race at Martinsville entered in this week's race: Kyle Busch, 5.5; Clint Bowyer, 7.0; Todd Bodine, 7.9 and Jason Leffler, 8.5. Bodine is the only series regular.

4.64Average number of lead changes in 17 Truck Series races at Martinsville.

5This season there have been five different winners on short tracks: Mike Skinner (Martinsville), Dennis Setzer (Mansfield), Travis Kvapil (Memphis), Ron Hornaday (ORP) and Johnny Benson (Bristol).

8Eight times this season a race has been won from the pole. At Martinsville, Mike Skinner won from the pole in the spring race and was just the third driver in 17 races at the track to win from the P1 position.

10.64Average number of cautions in 17 Truck Series races at Martinsville for an average of 59.35 laps.

12Number of drivers who will look to make their first race at Martinsville in the Truck Series (Justin Labonte, Travis Dassow, Chris Jones, Brian Scott, Jacques Villeneuve, Regan Smith, Colin Braun, Clay Rogers, Cory Collum, Dario Franchitti, Tim Cowen and John Coffman).

14The worst finish Todd Bodine has had at Martinsville is 14th. He has five top-10s in seven races, but has never won at the track.

16Sixteen different drivers have shared the lead in the last five races at Martinsville, with Mike Skinner leading the most at 21.3 percent of the laps run.

85.6Percent of laps Dennis Setzer has been in the top 15 in the last five races at Martinsville, 987 of the 1153 laps run, tops among all drivers.

150.0Driver rating for Mike Skinner in this year's spring race at Martinsville -- a perfect rating. Skinner won the race and led 243 of the 250 laps run.

324Number of laps Ted Musgrave has led at Martinsville, the most for a driver without a victory.

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NCTS winners

Year	Driver	Make	Speed

1995	Joe Ruttman	Ford	65.072
1996	Mike Skinner	Chevrolet	64.434
1997	Rich Bickle	Chevrolet	75.297
1998	Jay Sauter	Chevrolet	72.154
1999	Jimmy Hensley	Dodge	74.282
2000	Bobby Hamilton	Dodge	71.836
2001	Scott Riggs	Dodge	70.638
2002	Dennis Setzer	Chevrolet	64.628
2003	Jon Wood	Ford	72.069
2004	Rick Crawford	Ford	61.490
	Jamie McMurray	Dodge	60.819
2005	Bobby Labonte	Chevrolet	66.639
	Ricky Craven	Ford	64.332
2006	David Starr	Toyota	59.219
	Jack Sprague	Toyota	60.172
2007	Mike Skinner	Toyota	61.753

Truck Series

Official Standings

Pos.	+/-	Driver	Points	Behind

1.	+1	Ron Hornaday	3207	Leader
2.	-1	Mike Skinner	3193	-14
3.	--	Travis Kvapil	2973	-234
4.	--	Todd Bodine	2945	-262
5.	--	Johnny Benson	2831	-376
6.	--	Rick Crawford	2794	-413
7.	--	Ted Musgrave	2474	-733
8.	--	Erik Darnell	2427	-780
9.	--	Matt Crafton	2411	-796
10.	--	Jack Sprague	2339	-868