Roush Fenway Advance – Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Roush Fenway Advance – Las Vegas Motor Speedway, 1.5-Mile

Roush Fenway Racing’s Wolfpack Heads to Las Vegas

Roush Fenway Racing looks to go on a heater this weekend as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) returns to “Sin City,” Las Vegas Motor Speedway in the hopes that what happens there doesn’t just stay there but propels the team throughout the rest of the season. Roush Fenway boasts 16 wins at Las Vegas across NAS­CAR’s three major touring series.

Sprint Cup Series
Las Vegas
Sun. 3/6/16 – 3:30 PM ET
FOX, PRN, Sirius 90

Trevor Bayne, No. 6 AdvoCare Ford Fusion
Greg Biffle, No. 16 Cheez-It Ford Fusion
Ricky Stenhouse Jr, No. 17 Fastenal Ford Fusion

NASCAR XFINITY Series
Las Vegas
Sat. 3/5/16 – 4:00 PM ET
FS1, PRN, Sirius 90

Bubba Wallace, No. 6 Ford EcoBoost Ford
Ryan Reed, No. 16 Lilly/American Diabetes Ford

Roush Cashes in with Early JACKpot

Roush Fenway hit the Vegas jackpot right off the bat, winning the inaugural NSCS event at Las Vegas in 1998. Mark Martin led 82 laps in the victory in a one-two finish for Roush Fenway that afternoon.

Inaugural Sweep

Roush Fenway placed all five of its NSCS entries inside the top 10 of that inaugural Las Vegas race in 1998, including three inside the top five, four inside the top six, one in victory lane and one as the runner-up with drivers Mark Martin, Jeff Burton, Johnny Benson, Ted Musgrave and Chad Little (6 – 1st, 99 – 2nd, 26 – 4th, 16 – 6th and 97 – 10th).

The Cat in the Hat-Trick

Roush Fenway went to victory lane in each of the first three NSCS races at Las Vegas, with race win­ners Martin (1998) and Burton (1999, 2000) leading a combined 249 laps out of 801 (31.1 percent).

Victory Lane at Vegas

In addition to the first three NSCS races at Las Vegas, Roush Fenway again found the winners’ circle in 2003 and 2004 at the 1.5-mile track with Matt Kenseth. Carl Edwards took the checkered flag in the 2008 and 2011 events to give Roush Fenway seven NSCS wins at Las Vegas with four different drivers.

Deuces Wild

Roush Fenway has won two consecutive NSCS races at Las Vegas on two separate occasions in ’99- ’00 and ’03-04’ and once in the NASCAR XFINITY Series in ‘99 and ‘00.

Tale of the Tape

In 77 career NSCS starts at Las Vegas, Roush Fenway has recorded seven victories, 21 top-five fin­ishes, 38 top-10 finishes and has led 1,257 laps.

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XFINITY Success

Roush Fenway has won six times in the NASCAR XFINITY Series at Las Vegas, most recently with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. In a total of 49 starts at the 1.5-mile oval, Roush Fenway has earned 19 top-fives (38.8 percent) and 35 top-10s (71.4 percent) in addition to the six victories.

Roush Fenway LVMS Wins

1998     Martin       Cup

1999     Burton       Cup

2000     Burton       Cup

2003     Kenseth     Cup

2004     Kenseth     Cup

2008     Edwards    Cup

2011     Edwards    Cup

1999     Martin        NXS

2000     Burton        NXS

2002     Burton        NXS

2005     Martin        NXS

2009     Biffle          NXS

2012     Stenhouse NXS

1997     Ruttman    CWTS

1999     Biffle         CWTS

2007     Kvapil       CWTS

2009     Biffle          NXS

2012     Stenhouse NXS

1997     Ruttman   CWTS

1999     Biffle        CWTS

2007     Kvapil       CWTS

Roush Fenway at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Race  Win   T5    T10  Pole  Laps  Led  AvSt  AvFn Miles

CUP       77       7     21     38    2    18830  1257  17.4   14.4   28245

NXS       49       6     19     35    6     9374   1178  11     10.4   14061

TRUCK   27      3      7      11    1     3660    234  10.3   15.9    5490

153    16    47     84    9    31864  2669  12.9   13.6   47796

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