The 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season will go down as the most competitive in its 62-year history of NASCAR.
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[/media-credit]The average lead changes and leaders per race numbers were all broken this season. There was an average of 25.4 lead changes per race, which broke the previous record of 24.9 back in 1981 and the more recent 11 leaders back in 2006.
Another record that was broken is the amount of drivers who led a race this year. 55 different drivers led at least one lap. The previous total was 51, in both 2005 and 2007.
There were 1,299 green flag passes for the lead, which blew the previous total out of the water from 2006 with just 994. The total amount of green flag passes topped 116,327, which broke the record set last year with 110,626.
Talladega– Spring race set record with 88 lead changes among 29 drivers. That is 67% of the field! The fall race was great too, but didn’t exceed the numbers from April.
Daytona– 21 lead changes at the Daytona 500 set the record for that track.
Infineon– 12 lead changes in the race at Infineon set the record there.
Phoenix– 13 different leaders tied the record.
Texas– 33 lead changes during the last race set the track record
And finally some humor,
Marcos Ambrose became the first driver in NASCAR history to lose a race because he stalled the car during a caution flag playing with the ignition switches.
