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Top 10 and a few more facts for Kentucky Speedway
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Eight races at Kentucky Speedway, eight different winners. For that matter, there haven't been any pole repeats, either, in the seven qualifying sessions. And the manufacturers have been pretty even in the wins department, too. Ford, Dodge and Chevrolet took turns with wins in the first six races before Chevy won for a third time in 2006. Toyota broke through with its first victory last year.
Toyota could easily get its second victory this Saturday (6:30 p.m. ET, SPEED) as Kyle Busch takes advantage of an off-week in the Sprint Cup Series to race Billy Ballew's No. 51 in the Truck standalone. It would also add to the list of first-time winners at Kentucky. Not only has Busch not won at Kentucky, he's never raced there in the Truck Series. He does have a Nationwide victory there, in 2004, which also was his first start at the 1.5-mile track.
1Career starts at Kentucky for Willie Allen, who will debut Randy Moss Motorsports' No. 81 Chevrolet this week. Allen finished 15th last year, one lap off the lead, in the No. 13 Chevrolet of ThorSport Racing.
2Victories at Kentucky for Roush Fenway Racing, which will break the mark for most starts in the Truck Series on Saturday with 316, passing Spears Motorsports. Roush holds the record for most series wins with 49. Greg Biffle won the very first race at Kentucky in 2000 in Roush's No. 50 Ford; Carl Edwards won his very first top NASCAR race in 2003 in the No. 99 Ford.
3Starts at Kentucky for Todd Bodine, whose eight combined wins on five of the seven 1.5-mile tracks visited by the series are the most of any driver. However, he has not won at Kentucky, finishing second, 10th and 11th in the past three years. He has won at Kentucky, though, in a Nationwide Series race in 2002.
4Crash DNFs for Terry Cook in eight starts at Kentucky including three out of the past four races. He is one of only two drivers, along with Dennis Setzer, to start in every race there. Cook has posted top-10s (all consecutively from 2001-03) in three of the four races he has finished.
5Drivers with more than one top-five at Kentucky without a victory there: Jack Sprague and Ted Musgrave with three each; Rick Crawford, Travis Kvapil and Jason Leffler with two each. All but Leffler have a runner-up finish at Kentucky; Sprague has finished second twice.
6Races at Kentucky won from a top-five starting position. No driver has won from the pole, but Greg Biffle (2000) and Mike Bliss (2002) each won from the outside of front row. Dennis Setzer started 18th in 2005 and Ron Hornaday started 22nd in 2006.
7Place of finish in three of Matt Crafton's seven races at Kentucky. All have come in his past five starts there. Crafton has four top-10s overall, finishing fourth in 2004 in Kevin Harvick Inc.'s No. 6 Chevrolet. His other starts have been in his current ride, the No. 88 Chevrolet of ThorSport Racing.
8Average finish in seven races at Kentucky for Ted Musgrave, who leads all drivers with six top-10s there. Musgrave led 79 laps in his first start at Kentucky in 2001 before a crash ended in a DNF and 21st-place finish. He has led two laps since -- both last year -- yet has the longest current consecutive top-10 streak.
9Average finish in eight races at Kentucky for Dennis Setzer, who leads all drivers with four top-fives there. All four came in a five-race span from 2001-05 in the No. 46 Chevrolet and culminated with a victory. Driving different trucks the past two years, he finished 20th and 18th, his worst in eight races.
10Lead changes in last year's race at Kentucky despite the fact that Mike Skinner led 135 laps, the most any driver has led in any race there. Todd Bodine led eight laps; four other drivers also led, but none for more than two laps. The victory was Skinner's second top-five in three races at Kentucky in the No. 5 Toyota.
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Kentucky Speedway
| Year | Winner | Make | Start | Led | Pole |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | G. Biffle | Ford | 2 | 53 | B. Reffner |
| 2001 | S. Riggs | Dodge | 3 | 33 | J. Sprague |
| 2002 | M. Bliss | Chevy | 2 | 94 | J. Leffler |
| 2003 | C. Edwards | Ford | 5 | 40 | J. Wood |
| 2004 | B. Hamilton | Dodge | 3 | 133 | D. Setzer* |
| 2005 | D. Setzer | Chevy | 18 | 6 | B. Lester |
| 2006 | R. Hornaday | Chevy | 22 | 47 | M. Ambrose |
| 2007 | M. Skinner | Toyota | 4 | 135 | R. Mathews |
Official Standings
| Pos. | +/- | Driver | Points | Behind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | +3 | Ron Hornaday | 1742 | -- |
| 2. | +1 | Matt Crafton | 1715 | -27 |
| 3. | -1 | Todd Bodine | 1688 | -54 |
| 4. | -3 | Johnny Benson | 1686 | -56 |
| 5. | -- | Rick Crawford | 1668 | -74 |
| 6. | -- | Mike Skinner | 1629 | -113 |
| 7. | +1 | Erik Darnell | 1605 | -137 |
| 8. | +1 | Jack Sprague | 1578 | -164 |
| 9. | -2 | Terry Cook | 1553 | -189 |
| 10. | -- | Chad McCumbee | 1514 | -228 |
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