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Jack Sprague delivered Toyota's first series win at Daytona. Driving for Kevin Harvick Inc. in 2008, he hopes to do the same for Chevrolet.

By the Numbers: Daytona

A Top 10 look into the Craftsman Truck Series

By Jarrod Breeze, NASCAR.COM
February 14, 2008
12:33 PM EST
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Throughout the 2008 season, By the Numbers will present a Top 10 list for each venue in the Craftsman Truck Series.

Each number will be race specific to that week's track, with additional information that provides further insight to the series and its drivers.

We start, of course, at Daytona, where the Truck Series has opened its season every year since 2000. (See No. 7 for a fact about that first race.)

1Laps led by Bobby Hamilton in 2005, the fewest of any race winner. Hamilton started in last place, just one of two drivers to win there without a top-10 starting position. Rick Crawford started 19th in 2003.
2Series champions who have won at Daytona: Jack Sprague (1997, 1999, 2001) and Bobby Hamilton (2005). No driver has won Daytona and the title in the same year. Travis Kvapil (2003) and Todd Bodine (2006) each finished second in their championship seasons.
3Races won from the pole: Joe Ruttman, Mark Martin and Jack Sprague. Ruttman is the only driver with more than one pole at Daytona. He won the first two poles there. Martin's victory marks his lone Truck appearance at Daytona.
4Drivers who have started every Truck race at Daytona: Rick Crawford, Terry Cook, Dennis Setzer and David Starr. Crawford is the only one of the group to have won there. Cook's ninth Daytona start will be his series-leading 248th consecutive start.
5Starts for Travis Kvapil, who has led the most laps at 70. He led a race-high 49 laps last season in his return to the series and finished third behind Jack Sprague and Johnny Benson. Kvapil has returned to the Cup Series for 2008.
6Top-10s for Terry Cook, most of any driver. Lead-lap finishes for Terry Cook, most of any driver. Running at the finish for Terry Cook, a series high he shares with Rick Crawford.
7Drivers to finish on the lead lap in the first Truck race at Daytona. The most drivers to finish on the lead lap in a race there is 20, in 2006. Exactly half of the field (18) finished on the lead lap last year.
8Winning drivers in as many races at Daytona. Rick Crawford and Jack Sprague are the only former winners entered in this year's race. Bobby Hamilton Racing is the only team with more than one victory -- Joe Ruttman, Robert Pressley and Bobby Hamilton -- and account for the only three Dodge wins there.
9Combined number of top-fives for Todd Bodine, Ted Musgrave and Travis Kvapil, each with three, tied for the series high. Bodine has only made three starts at Daytona, and his 3.3 average finish is best of any driver with more than one start.
10Drivers looking for their first series win in their first race at Daytona: Colin Braun, Justin Hobgood, P.J. Jones, Scott Lagasse Jr., Andy Lally, Scott Lynch, Phillip McGilton, Justin Marks, Marc Mitchell and Brian Scott. McGilton will be making his NASCAR debut. Only Jones has raced at Daytona before with one Cup start and three in the then-Busch Series. Speaking of Busch, Kyle Busch will also be making his first Truck start at Daytona, although he already has six series victories. Busch also has a win at Daytona, the final Busch Series race there last year.

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Craftsman Truck Series

Daytona International Speedway
Year Winner Start Make Led
2000 Mike Wallace 2 Ford 59
2001 Joe Ruttman 1 Dodge 30
2002 Robert Pressley 10 Dodge 50
2003 Rick Crawford 19 Ford 49
2004 Carl Edwards 6 Ford 28
2005 Bobby Hamilton 36 Dodge 1
2006 Mark Martin 1 Ford 42
2007 Jack Sprague 1 Toyota 16
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