Winning at Bristol: Kyle picks up where Kurt left off

Race No. 5: Food City 500 from Bristol Motor Speedway (1 p.m. ET Sunday on FOX). Green at 1:13 p.m. ET.

0 -- Wins at Bristol for Jimmie Johnson, who has won eight of the past 19 short-track races overall. Johnson has made 16 starts at Bristol, with three top-fives and eight top-10s. He finished in the top 10 in both races in 2009, including a career-tying-best third in the spring. He combined to lead 195 laps last year; he had led just 43 prior.

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1 -- Top-10 finishes in 11 spring races at Bristol for Tony Stewart. He has six top-10s in 11 summer night races.

1 -- Teams to post a 1-2-3 finish at Bristol: Richard Childress Racing's Jeff Burton-Kevin Harvick-Clint Bowyer in March 2008. Seven times a team has finished 1-2, most recently by Joe Gibbs Racing in March '09: Kyle Busch-Denny Hamlin. Hendrick Motorsports (1996, '98) and Roush Fenway Racing ('98 and '03) each have accomplished it twice.

2 -- Season sweeps in 2009: Kyle Busch won both races; Mark Martin started on the pole both times. Busch became the first driver to sweep Bristol since Kurt Busch in '03. There has been 15 season sweeps in 49 years of racing at BMS.

3 -- Drivers who have combined to win seven of the past nine races at Bristol: Kyle Busch (March 2007 and both races in '09), Matt Kenseth (August '05 and '06), Carl Edwards (August '07 and '08). Other winners during that stretch: Kurt Busch (March '06), who won four of five races at BMS from March '02 through March '04, and Jeff Burton (March '08).

3 -- Consecutive spring races extended past the scheduled distance for a green-white-checkered finish.

5 -- Wins at Bristol for Jeff Gordon and Kurt Busch, most among active drivers. Darrell Waltrip is the all-time leader with 12.

6 -- Drivers to finish in the top 10 in both races at Bristol in 2009: Marcos Ambrose, Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Mark Martin and Ryan Newman. Hamlin has four consecutive top-10s at BMS, the longest active streak. Ambrose has only the two starts there.

6 -- Consecutive lead-lap finishes at Bristol for Clint Bowyer, the longest current streak.

7 -- Most top-10 finishes in the past 10 races at Bristol: Greg Biffle, Kyle Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Biffle has four of his five top-fives during that span. Busch has three victories and two runner-up finishes during that span. Junior has 11 top-10s in his past 16 starts at BMS, including his only win in August 2004.

22 -- Races won from the pole, most recently by Matt Kenseth in August 2006. The spring race has not been won from the pole since Rusty Wallace in 1999.

22 -- Times Jeff Gordon has started on the front row in 34 races at Bristol. He has started on the pole five times, his most recent in March 2007. His most recent front-row start was in March '08. He qualified 33rd this past August, his worst starting position there.

38 -- Starting position for Elliott Sadler in March 2001, the worst of any winner at any short track in Cup Series history. It was Sadler's first victory and the only win at Bristol for the Wood Brothers (No. 21 Ford); the team hasn't won a race since.

43 -- Percentage of race laps led by Kyle Busch the past two years at Bristol: 868 of 2,007, including 415 laps in August 2008 and 378 in March '09.

62 -- Lead laps needed for Jeff Gordon to become the fifth driver to lead 2,500 laps at Bristol. Gordon has led only 53 laps combined the past four years and didn't lead any in 2009, the first time he failed to lead a lap in a season series at BMS since his rookie year of 1993 and just the third time he has gone back-to-back races without leading a lap (just one lap the past four races). Gordon has led 62 laps at Bristol since August '03 (179).

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