Given the sudden, apparent importance of starts in three series, here are a few more relatively strange numbers from NASCAR history. Dave Marcis failed to qualify 97 times, the most in history. The all-time leader in top-10-finish percentage is Lee Petty at .7775. The all-time leader in average qualifying position is Dick Hutcherson at 4.874. And the all-time leader in points – not wins, not poles, not money, but just points – is Richard Petty with 308,598.1. Points in three series? Uh, not yet available.(NASCAR This Week)(10-17-2009)
