Bristol Motor Speedway Notes & Facts – Sunday – race:

‚· There have been 108 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at Bristol Motor Speedway since the first race in 1961, two races each season.
‚· All races have been scheduled for 500 laps, except for both races in 1976 and the second in 1977, which were 400 laps.
‚· Junior Johnson leads the series in car owner wins at Bristol with 16; Roger Penske and Jack Roush are tied among active car owners for the most wins at Bristol with 11 each.
‚· Eight different manufacturers have won in the NSCS at Bristol; led by Chevrolet with 43 victories; followed by Ford with 35. Toyota is ranked fifth among manufacturers with six wins at Bristol.
‚· 35 of the 108 (32.4%) races at Bristol have been won from the front row: Pole position (22 wins); second-place (13 wins).
‚· 86 of the 108 (79.6%) races have been won from a top-10 starting position; including 53 from the first four spots.
‚· Five of the 108 (4.6%) races have been won from a starting position outside the top 20; most recent was Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 2004 – he started 30th.
‚· The deepest in the field that a race winner has started is 38th, by Elliott Sadler; in 2001.
‚· Eight of the last 10 races have ended with a Margin of Victory of less than a second at BMS.
‚· There has been four green-white-checkered finishes at Bristol – all four were the spring race: 2007 (500/504); 2008 (500/506); 2009 (500/503); 2014 (500/503).
‚· Two of the 107 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at Bristol Motor Speedway have been shortened due to weather conditions; the most recent was the event on 3/31/1996.
‚· Since the advent of electronic scoring the closest margin of victory in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Bristol was the 3/25/2007 race won by Kyle Busch with a MOV of 0.064 second.
(NASCAR)(4-19-2015)