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Jason Keller, Carl Edwards and Kevin Harvick are ready for their second New Hampshire victory.

By the Numbers: NHMS

Magic Mile still in search of track's first repeat winner

By Bill Kimm, NASCAR.COM
June 26, 2008
10:59 AM EDT
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New Hampshire Motor Speedway, site of Saturday's Camping World RV Sales 200 (2:30 p.m. ET, ABC) owns a unique record in Nationwide Series history -- and it's by a wide margin.

The 1.058-mile track has hosted 21 Nationwide events and has had 21 different winners -- the longest streak among all tracks in the series' 26-year existence.

Nationwide Series

Tracks without a repeat winner (minimum four races)
Track Years in Series Number of winners
New Hampshire Motor Speedway 1990-present 21
Nashville Speedway 1984-2000 9
Pikes Peak International Raceway 1998-2005 8
Kentucky Speedway 2001-present 7
Kansas Speedway 2001-present 7
Lanier Speedway 1988-1992 5
Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez 2005-present 4
New River Valley Speedway 1988-1992 4
Volusia County Speedway 1989-1992 4

Five drivers will try and rewrite the history books, three of whom have had some pretty impressive results on the track recently.

It's been a tough go for defending series champion Carl Edwards. Heading into last week's race at Milwaukee, Edwards had been winless in 36 consecutive events and had held the lead in just four races this season. In fact, eight of the 16 races run, Edwards found himself outside of a top-10 finishing position.

But all that changed last Saturday.

Edwards wasn't the dominant car, leading 27 of the 250 laps run, but he led when it counted and finally put his No. 60 Ford into Victory Lane. Now, he heads to one of his best tracks on the schedule to keep his momentum building.

Carl Edwards

Nationwide Series results at New Hampshire
Year Start Finish Status Laps Led
2005 21 2 running 0
2006 9 1 running 58
2007 2 2 running 3

For Jason Keller, qualifying has been his Achilles heel this season. With an average starting position of 20.3 it's tough to get up front and compete. The last two events though, something has happened to Keller, as his No. 11 Chevy started second at Kentucky and fourth at Milwaukee and the results have followed with two consecutive top-10 finishes (10th at Kentucky and ninth at Milwaukee).

At New Hampshire, where Keller has raced 15 times in his Nationwide career, starting up front has produced better results.

16.8Average finish at New Hampshire for Jason Keller when he started inside the top 20. In 11 races, he had a win, two top-fives and five top-10s.
24.0Average finish at New Hampshire for Jason Keller when he started 20th or worse. In four races his best finish was 12th, with the other three 26th or worse.

Since switching to his own equipment from Joe Gibbs Racing, Kevin Harvick is still searching for that elusive first victory. But that's not to say this season has been a bust. In 11 races he's run the No. 33 Chevy, Harvick has five top-five and six top-10 finishes, and he has led 159 laps, which puts him eighth on the season.

Loudon has always been one of Harvick's stronger tracks. In seven races he has four poles and never started worse than seventh and he has finished outside the top 10 once with a win and three second-place finishes.

The last three races, though, Harvick has been nearly unbeatable.

Kevin Harvick

Stats for the last three Nationwide races at New Hampshire
Wins Top-fives Top-10s Poles Laps Led Avg. St. Avg. Fin. Driver Rating Avg. Running Pos. Laps in T-15
1 2 3 2 256/601 42.5% 2.0 3.66 135.0 2.9 601/601 100%

Edwards, Keller and Harvick -- all having tremendously different seasons, with different levels of consistency, yet all have a common goal -- to become the first to repeat at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

The final fact

1Only one New Hampshire native has won a NASCAR national series race. Jamie Aube, from Manchester N.H., won the 1987 Oxford 250 at Oxford (Maine) Plains Speedway. It's was Aube's second career Nationwide Series start.

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Nationwide Series winners
Year Winner Start Make
1990 Tommy Ellis 4 Buick
  Rick Mast 18 Buick
1991 Kenny Wallace 3 Pontiac
  Ricky Craven 1 Chevrolet
1992 Jeff Burton 23 Oldsmobile
  Joe Nemechek 10 Chevrolet
1993 Robert Pressley 3 Chevrolet
1994 Derrike Cope 14 Ford
1995 Chad Little 9 Ford
1996 Randy LaJoie 2 Chevrolet
1997 Mike McLaughlin 12 Chevrolet
1998 Buckshot Jones 26 Pontiac
1999 Elton Sawyer 2 Ford
2000 Tim Fedewa 1 Chevrolet
2001 Jason Keller 4 Ford
2002 Bobby Hamilton Jr. 2 Ford
2003 David Green 4 Pontiac
2004 Matt Kenseth 21 Ford
2005 Martin Truex, Jr. 7 Chevrolet
2006 Carl Edwards 9 Ford
2007 Kevin Harvick 1 Chevrolet

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