Among active drivers Mark Martin leads with five poles at Dover
David Pearson leads all pole winners at Dover International Speedway with six. Mark Martin is the active driver with the most poles at five. The last driver to win from the pole at Dover was Jimmie Johnson in September of 2010.
Martin has 20 top-fives and 34 top-10s at Pocono but has never won there
Mark Martin leads all drivers in top-fives with 20 and top-10s with 34 at Pocono Raceway but has yet to win there. His best finish was second, seven times. In June of 2012, Martin set the record for most runner-up finishes at a track without winning.
Gordon set record in 1995 at Charlotte Motor Speedway
Jeff Gordon is the youngest winner of the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at 23 years, 9 months and 18 days. He accomplished the feat in 1995 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Mark Martin is the oldest at 46 years, 4 months and 12 days, and he won in 2005.
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NASCAR’s Sin City outpost is known for its unique garage
What happens in Vegas typically stays under wraps in Vegas … except for the Neon Garage at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, which is one of the most fan-accessible on the NASCAR circuit. The 1.5-mile track, which first hosted NASCAR’s top series in 1996, boasts a garage with a fan-friendly concourse, where fans can peer through windows to look down at their favorite drivers’ cars.
Five-time champion has four wins at Phoenix
NASCAR first took its top level of stock car racing to Phoenix International Raceway in 1988, when ’92 Sprint Cup champion Alan Kulwicki celebrated his first career win with a Polish Victory Lap. Since then, five-time champion Jimmie Johnson has risen to the top of the one-mile track’s all-time win list with four Phoenix victories.
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Daytona International Speedway has been host to the Daytona 500, the crown jewel of stock car racing, since NASCAR Hall of Famer Lee Petty won the first running in 1959. Since then, his son Richard — NASCAR’s all-time winningest driver with 200 victories — won the most Daytona 500 crowns with seven over the course of his career. Jeff Gordon leads active drivers with three wins in the Great American Race.
Pole position can come in handy at Texas Motor Speedway
Three Cup races from Texas Motor Speedway have been won from the pole position, including two in a row. Kasey Kahne got the first one in 2006, followed by Jimmie Johnson in 2012 and Kyle Busch in this year’s spring race.
Three is the magic number for these drivers at Martinsville
Seven different drivers have won at least three consecutive races at Martinsville. Two of them are active — Jimmie Johnson won the fall race in 2006 and swept the 2007 races, and Denny Hamlin
won the 2009 fall race and swept the 2010 races. The others are Fred
Lorenzen (four straight from 1963-65), Richard Petty (1968-69), Cale
Yarborough (1976-77), Darrell Waltrip (1988-89) and Rusty Wallace
(1994-95).
Busch made Toyota history in 2013
Auto Club Speedway is considered the home course for Toyota, due to Toyota Racing Development being located in Southern California. A Toyota won at the track for the first time in a NSCS race this year, when Kyle Busch drove the No. 18 to victory.
Short track has held 105 Cup races
Bristol Motor Speedway was built in 1960 and, at first, was exactly a half-mile. Reconfiguration in 1969 brought to the track to 0.533 miles, the same length it is today. It’s the second-shortest track on the NASCAR circuit and has the largest seating capacity at 160,000.
