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The Numbers for Richmond:


  • 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
    (Darnell Communications for Dodge Motorsports)(9-9-2011)