THE NUMBERS for the WONDERFUL PISTACHIOS 400
Richmond International Raceway (all 110 Sprint Cup races)
1 – fewest cautions (three times, most recent, 3/1/70)
1 – fewest cars on lead lap at finish (22 times, most recent 10/12/75)
2 – fewest leaders (six times, most recent 2/23/75)
2 – fewest lead changes (seven times, most recent 2/23/75)
4 – number of jet dryers available for track drying this weekend
4 – fewest laps led by race winner (Kyle Petty, 2/23/86)
6 – fewest caution laps (6/5/60)
12 – most leaders (four times, most recent 5/6/07)
13 – most wins by driver (Richard Petty)
15 – most cautions (twice, most recent 5/2/09)
22 – wins from the pole; 35 from the front row (110 races)
25 – most lead changes (twice, most recent 3/3/96)
32 – most cars on lead lap at finish (9/7/08)
49 – different pole winners 47 – different race winners
43 – most running at finish (9/7/08)
90 minutes – amount of time it takes to dry the .75-mile track after a significant rainfall
123 – most caution laps (two times, most recent 9/8/74)
488 – most laps led by race winner (9/13/70 – Richard Petty – 500-lap race)
Key RIR Dates 1946 – Ted Horn won the first race on half-mile dirt track (10/12/46) in open-wheel car 1953 – Lee Petty won the first NASCAR Grand National Division, now Sprint Cup, race on the half-mile dirt track (4/19/53). 1955 – Paul Sawyer and driver Joe Weatherly purchased the track 1964 – race run under temporary lights (3/10/64) 1968 – last race on dirt track won by David Pearson (3/24/68) 1968 – first race on paved track won by Richard Petty (9/8/68) 1969 — track remeasured from .625-mile to .5625-mile; remeasured from .5625-mile to .5-mile; remeasured again from .5-mile to .542-mile prior to the first race of 1970 1988 – track reconfigured to its current .75-mile layout 1991 – permanent lighting added prior to fall event won by Harry Gant (9/7/91) 1999 – International Speedway Corporation (ISC) acquires track
2011 Caution Update 4 – fewest cautions this season (Fontana and Pocono1) 6 – number of races extended beyond scheduled distance in 2011 8 – number of cautions in spring race (April 30) at RIR 16 – most cautions this season (Daytona) 182 – number of cautions in the first 25 races of 2011; includes 84 for accidents, 43 for debris and 26 for spins 880 of 7,076 – number of laps under caution in 2011 1,264,577 of 9,933.258 – miles under caution in the first 25 races
Provided by Darnell Communications for Dodge Motorsports
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