The Numbers for Richmond Int’l Raceway

[media-credit name=”http://www.richmondinternationalraceway.com” align=”alignright” width=”253″][/media-credit]Richmond International Raceway (all 111 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 – fewest laps led by race winner (Kyle Petty, 2/23/86)

5 – number of jet dryers available for track drying this weekend

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 (three times, most recent 9/10/11)

22 – wins from the pole; 35 from the front row (111 races)

25 – most lead changes (twice, most recent 3/3/96)

32 – most cars on lead lap at finish (9/7/08)

50 – 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)

275 – number of Sprint Cup Series races in state of Virginia at nine tracks

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 on a Tuesday night (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) acquired track

 

2012 Caution Update

1 – fewest cautions this season (Fontana 3/25/12)

2 – number of races extended beyond scheduled distance in 2012 (Daytona and Martinsville); one in first eight races in 2011 (Daytona)

10 – most cautions this season (Daytona, 2/27/12)

43 – number of cautions in the first eight races of 2012; 67 in first eight races in 2011

250 of 2,526 – number of laps under caution in 2012

299.073 of 2,914.390 – miles under caution in the first eight races

 

Provided by Darnell Communications for SRT Motorsports and Dodge

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of SpeedwayMedia.com

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