0 -- Laps led by Jimmie Johnson in both Cup Series races at Martinsville. It is the first year he has failed to lead laps at Martinsville since 2005 when he also didn't lead a lap in either race.
Johnson averaged 172.5 laps led per race in the previous four years. Johnson finished fifth in Sunday's race to stretch his streak of consecutive top-10s at the track to 17.
736 -- Number of points scored during the Chase -- five of 10 races -- by Jamie McMurray, tied for third-most with Kevin Harvick.
0 -- Top fives for Kevin Harvick in Cup Series races at Martinsville Speedway, site of Sunday's sixth race in the Chase.
Martinsville is the only active track on which Harvick does not have a top-five. Harvick has made 18 starts at Martinsville. He also didn’t have a top-five at Rockingham (seven starts).
9 -- Cup Series poles won by Ryan Newman at Charlotte Motor Speedway, a personal best for a Cup track.
Newman won the pole for the race in May and has won the pole for both Charlotte races in the same year twice (2003 and 2007). Pole qualifying for Saturday night's event at Charlotte is Thursday night.
2 -- Consecutive races Richard Petty Motorsports drivers A.J. Allmendinger and Paul Menard have finished in the top 10, marking the first time since 1999 that two teams owned by Richard Petty finished in the top 10 in consecutive Cup Series races. Menard seventh and eighth in the past two races (Dover and Kansas) and Allmendinger finished 10th in both races.
In 1999, in consecutive races at Bristol and Martinsville, John Andretti finished fourth and first and Kyle Petty finished eighth and 10th.
815 -- Laps led in Cup Series races this year by Jeff Gordon, who is winless in 2010.
1,169: Laps led by Harry Gant in 1981, the most laps led in a Cup season in the modern era by a winless driver. Mark Martin is second with 702 laps led in 1996.
There are eight races remaining in the 2010 Cup season.
26 -- Number of lead changes in last year's race at Kansas Speedway, most in Cup Series history at the track. That race also came with the fewest amount of caution flags in Cup history at the track, six.
2 -- Top-five finishes for Richard Childress Racing drivers at Kansas Speedway, site of Sunday's third race in the Chase. It is the fewest top fives for RCR at an active Cup track. It is one of four active tracks on which RCR doesn't have a victory. The others: Fontana, Homestead and Las Vegas. Fontana and Homestead are Chase tracks. Clint Bowyer and Jeff Burton have RCR's top-fives at Kansas.
24.3 -- Kyle Busch’s average finish in Cup races at Kansas Speedway, site of Sunday's third race in the Chase. It is Busch’s second-worst average finish among Cup tracks. In fact, his three worst tracks are all Chase tracks: Homestead is his worst (25.2) and Talladega (23.2) is No. 3. His win at Talladega is his only top-five in 22 starts at those three tracks.
325 -- Career laps led by Kurt Busch at Dover, the equivalent of more than three-fourths of a race at the Monster Mile.
Dover is one of three current Chase tracks that Busch has never won at. The others are Kansas and Talladega.
6 -- Number of top-five finishes at Dover for Matt Kenseth in the past seven races at the track. Kenseth has a streak of five consecutive finishes of fourth or better at the 1-mile oval, where he made his Cup Series debut in 1998.
3 -- Top-five finishes for Dale Earnhardt Jr. in Cup Series races this season. That is one more than he had all last year.
Earnhardt scored his third top five with a fourth-place finish at New Hampshire. His other two top fives came at Daytona, second in the 500 and fourth in the July race.
422 -- Laps led by Clint Bowyer in Cup Series races at New Hampshire. Bowyer led 177 laps en route to winning Sunday's race.
Two of Bowyer's three Cup wins -- and 39.5 percent of his 1,068 laps led -- have come at Loudon.
18 -- Number of wins in the Chase for Jimmie Johnson since the format started in 2004.
6 -- Number of wins from Johnson's closest pursuer in that span. Greg Biffle and Carl Edwards are tied for that distinction, while Tony Stewart has five. No one else has more than three.
7 -- Consecutive top-10 finishes at New Hampshire Jimmie Johnson, the longest current streak in the Cup Series. The next highest streak is five, held by Kurt Busch. Johnson and Busch battled for the win in the final laps of the June race at Loudon, with Johnson winning and Busch finishing third.
1 -- Current Ford drivers who have won a Cup Series race at Loudon, site of Sunday's first race in the Chase. Greg Biffle won the Chase race two years ago and still drives a Ford for Roush Fenway Racing.
Three other active drivers drove Fords to wins at Loudon but no longer drive Fords: Jeff Burton (four wins), Kurt Busch (two) and Ryan Newman (one).
9 -- Consecutive races Juan Montoya has qualified in the top 10. Since qualifying 14th at Sonoma in June, Montoya has won two poles and started second twice. His average start in those nine races is 4.4.
For the season, Montoya's average start is 10.7, which is third to Jimmie Johnson's 7.3 and Kurt Busch's 10.0.
4 -- Number of drivers that have competed in all 25 races this season but lack a top-10 finish. They are Sam Hornish Jr., Brad Keselowski, Bobby Labonte and Regan Smith.
Hornish has come the closest to reaching that plateau, having finished 11th in both Pocono races this year.
1,110 -- The difference in Kevin Harvick's Sprint Cup points total this year compared with this point in the 2009 season. Harvick leads the Cup standings with 3,585 points.
Going into Richmond last year, Harvick was 23rd in the standings with 2,475 points. He was 1,219 points behind the leader through 25 races last year; he goes into Saturday's race at Richmond 219 points ahead of second-place Jeff Gordon.
Harvick finished 2009 with 3,796 points, only 211 points more than his current total.
4 -- Drivers who have raced their way into the Chase with their performance in the final race of the regular season. The drivers: Jeremy Mayfield (2004), Ryan Newman (2005), Kasey Kahne (2006) and Brian Vickers (2009).
Mayfield is the only one to clinch a spot in the Chase with a win in the final race.
This year's regular-season finale is Saturday night at Richmond. Ten drivers have clinched spots in the Chase. Of the drivers in the top 12 in points, Greg Biffle (11th) and Clint Bowyer (12th) have not.
5,951 -- Jeff Gordon's laps run in the top 15 in Cup Series races this year. Gordon leads the series in this category, running 85.6 percent of his laps in the top 15 (of 6,951 total laps).
3,936 -- Laps run in the top 15 by series points leader Kevin Harvick. His 56.6 percent ranks 13th in the series. Despite running so few laps in the top 15, relative to the series leaders, Harvick has three wins. Six drivers ahead of him, including Gordon, have none.
2003 -- The last year a Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway was won from a starting position outside the top 11. That distinction belongs to Jeff Gordon, who won at Atlanta in Oct. 2003 from 19th position.
3 -- Drivers who have run enough miles in Cup Series races at Atlanta Motor Speedway to circle the earth. Richard Petty, Ricky Rudd and Bill Elliott have driven more than 26,000 miles at Atlanta; the circumference of the earth at the equator is 24,902 miles.
Petty leads the way with more than 26,500 miles in 65 starts, including the first Cup race at the track in 1960.
7 -- Season sweeps of Cup Series races at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Jimmie Johnson in 2007 was the last to sweep both races.
Kurt Busch, who has won two of the past three races at Atlanta, won the spring race by nearly a half-second over Matt Kenseth.
Drivers who have swept at AMS: Marvin Panch (1965), Bobby Allison (1972), David Pearson (1973), Bill Elliott (1985 and 1992), Carl Edwards (2005) and Johnson (2007).
5 -- Top-five finishes for David Reutimann this season in Sprint Cup Series races. Reutimann finished second Saturday night at Bristol to give him as many top-fives in 24 races this season as he had in the first 99 races of his Cup career.
| Car | Driver | Team |
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David Reutimann | Michael Waltrip Racing |
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Jamie McMurray | Earnhardt Ganassi Racing |
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Kurt Busch | Penske Racing |
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Mark Martin | Hendrick Motorsports |
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David Ragan | Roush Fenway Racing |
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Robby Gordon | Robby Gordon Motorsports |
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Bobby Labonte | Phoenix Racing |
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Kasey Kahne | Richard Petty Motorsports |
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Denny Hamlin | Joe Gibbs Racing |
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Brad Keselowski | Penske Racing |
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Tony Stewart | Stewart-Haas Racing |
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Greg Biffle | Roush Fenway Racing |
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Matt Kenseth | Roush Fenway Racing |
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Kyle Busch | Joe Gibbs Racing |
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Elliott Sadler | Richard Petty Motorsports |
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Joey Logano | Joe Gibbs Racing |
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Bill Elliott | Wood Brothers Racing |
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Jeff Gordon | Hendrick Motorsports |
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Kevin Harvick | Richard Childress Racing |
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Jeff Burton | Richard Childress Racing |
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Clint Bowyer | Richard Childress Racing |
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John Andretti | Front Row Motorsports |
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Travis Kvapil | Front Row Motorsports |
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Mike Bliss | Tommy Baldwin Racing |
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Johnny Sauter | Tommy Baldwin Racing |
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Casey Mears | Tommy Baldwin Racing |
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Kevin Conway | Front Row Motorsports |
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David Gilliland | Front Row Motorsports |
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Ryan Newman | Stewart-Haas Racing |
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Juan Montoya | Earnhardt Ganassi Racing |
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A.J. Allmendinger | Richard Petty Motorsports |
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J.J. Yeley | Whitney Motorsports |
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Marcos Ambrose | JTG-Daugherty Racing |
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Jimmie Johnson | Hendrick Motorsports |
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Michael McDowell | Prism Motorsports |
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Martin Truex Jr. | Michael Waltrip Racing |
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Dave Blaney | Prism Motorsports |
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Mike Bliss | TRG Motorsports |
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Sam Hornish Jr. | Penske Racing |
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Regan Smith | Furniture Row Racing |
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Scott Speed | Red Bull Racing Team |
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Brian Vickers | Red Bull Racing Team |
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Joe Nemechek | NEMCO Motorsports |
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. | Hendrick Motorsports |
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Scott Riggs | Keyed-Up Motorsports |
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Paul Menard | Richard Petty Motorsports |
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Carl Edwards | Roush Fenway Racing |
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