Toyota Racing – Denny Hamlin

NASCAR Cup Series Quotes

FORT WORTH (October 23, 2020) – Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin was made available to media via videoconference in advance of the race at the Texas Motor Speedway:

DENNY HAMLIN, No. 11 FedEx Shipathon Toyota Camry, Joe Gibbs Racing

You are running the Shipathon paint scheme at Texas and Martinsville. What can you tell us about the scheme?

“Well it’s about to be a Shipathon for our country. We are headed into the holidays and this is going to be a very important time and we know people want what they need when they need it. We encourage everyone this holiday season to shop and ship early. We will be running this for the next two weeks at Texas and Martinsville, so it’s a busy time. I’ve went to FedEx before during their peak season around Christmas, and you wouldn’t believe all of the packages going in there, so if you could spread out the love a little bit and get your online shopping done early it will help everybody out.”

How did you come up with the race team name, 23XI?

“We just kicked around a lot of different ideas and names and logos and things like that. Some that were way out of the box, and some that directly in the box and we kind of found somewhere in between. We found that it was something that – roman numerals are something that he has in his other ventures, whether that be his golf course and the 23 is very iconic to him. It doesn’t matter if we are multiple cars down the road the 23 will always represent him. The 11 will always represent me. It has been my number my entire racing life, but I also wanted to be respectful of Joe Gibbs Racing and not actually have the number 11 in the logo, being that they have that number. It’s just kind of a balance of all of that.”

Has it officially sunk in that you are a team owner?

“I’m not really overwhelmed. I’ve got a great team of people that are working on things, checking off checklists of things that we’ve got to get done between now and three months from now. It’s rapidly coming upon us, but I’m more working towards the future,’22, ’23, personally, right now. So, I think that as far as the race team is concerned, the immediate projects I already have a great team of people that we have hired that are working on that stuff.”

20 points, does that feel comfortable?

“I think that there is no one that is going to make 20 points up on us if we just preform our normal way, we’ve been preforming all year. Now, things change. We saw Kansas, things changed really quick. We go from possibly winning the race to finishing 15th, but I think our on-track performance will be enough. It’s just all of the variables that you don’t know about. It’s wrecks, it’s pit road, it’s someone pulling out in front of you and doing damage. There’s just so many little things that can affect your finish that you just don’t usually account for, but I would rather be 20 up than 20 down. That’s for sure.”

You’ve had some trouble at Texas in recent history. Do you do what you are doing, or do you race a little defensively?

“From my standpoint, we think we will the next three weeks in a row. If we do that, it all works out. If we don’t, we essentially need to think about where the people we are racing for points, where are they at on the racetrack. If they are running 12th, and I’m trying to make second and make a ballsy move up in the PJ1 to try to get second, for what? That one point is not worth the risk of losing it all and being negative, so you have to drive smarter in that sense. But if you are behind, you have to race like you are behind. That’s the advantage of being plus versus negative is that you are able to play off of your competition a little bit, make sure that they don’t get on a different strategy than you do. That’s a way you can bee defensive but also stay on the offense.”

You are going to get a home race to finish up this round in Martinsville. How do you feel about your chances there and the short track package?

“We’ve not finished strong on the short tracks this year as we were last year. I think we finished in the top-five in every short track last year, but I’m confident. We’ve run strong at times, but other times we’ve not like earlier Martinsville was a shock for us. Well, it wasn’t a shock, because I got an email an hour before the race essentially saying that we were going to be terrible because our data was wrong. I think that we really adapt well as a team. We handle the information that we get really well, so I think that certainly, I’m optimistic. I’m not going to look at the Spring and say ‘oh man, we were awful there. What have we done to change that?’ I’ve got smart enough people working within our team that I’m pretty confident that we can go there and contend for a win and that race essentially never happened. It’s so hard to draw parallels from previous success or failures to current results. It’s so hard to do in our sport, especially now.”

Was there any other discussion besides the number 23 for your team’s car?

“There hasn’t been, no. To us, it was a mere formality on that sense. We hadn’t talked about it for any other number. I just assumed that is what he would want, but obviously there were conversations between him, myself and Bubba (Wallace.) It just made the most sense for sure.”

How you would characterize where you are with manufacturer, crew chief?

“We’ve got most all of that done. We should have an announcement on that coming early, early next week.”

Are you intentionally trying to not think about the new team to focus on the championship?

“I’ll tell you regardless of the race team, I’ve been trying to find distractions for years in the Playoffs. I think that it’s a benefit to have distractions because you don’t overconsume yourself with what ifs and you end up second guessing yourself. I have the same preparation that I had for the fifth race of the season that I had this weekend. I don’t change anything. If anything during the Playoffs, I try to golf more. I’ll just do anything I can to be normal, and I have time set aside each week to prepare and to get ready for an event and I don’t change from that. I don’t change anything that I do. So, if I have six hours of open time on a Wednesday that it’s not preparation time for me, I’ll work on the race team, or I’ll go golf, or I’ll go hang out with friends. I don’t really designate anytime differently or try to weed out distractions. Distractions for me are a good thing, not a negative.”

You have a great mentor in Joe Gibbs. Have you talked to him about the new team?

“I’ve been on the phone with several teams talking about – I eventually want to build a race shop, so I’m getting all of those notes together. What will the new car bring, what departments will I need, that whole process. JGR (Joe Gibbs Racing) is a huge asset to getting us ready. Our team is a little different than some of those out there, the alliance that are running out of their race shop, it’s essentially just another car of theirs. This is an independent team. This team is doing its own thing. We want to do it the right way. I have big goals for this team. I want by middle of next year people from top organizations saying I want to go work there. That team is up and coming, and that team is growing. It’s going to build a world class facility; this is where I want to go work. I’m really heavily invested in this race team and its success over the long term and he is as well. I will lean on every asset that I have and one of those is Joe Gibbs, Coy (Gibbs), the engineers at JGR. I’m picking their brain on where this sport is going and what do I need to be prepared for going forward, so yeah, I’m using all of the assets that I’ve got.”

Do you feel like there has been less of a physical tole this season?

“I would say that typically, I’m already lining up surgeries for whatever I’m going to do in the offseason to repair these joints, but all seems okay on that front this year. I feel as good as I have. Certainly, the schedule is not as taxing as it was before being away from home. So, yes certainly, I’m as fresh as I was back in March or April or whatever. There’s no fatigue factor. Now, race teams. I don’t know. There’s a lot of work, a lot of preparation, a lot of effort that gets put into these final weeks, so certainly, I’m sure they are burning the midnight oil.”

When you look ahead to running your team, what is going to be your role going forward?

“I think my role with the team will grow over time. What makes Joe Gibbs Racing successful is he is hands on. If you drive by their shop at 8am each morning, it doesn’t matter what day of the week, his car is usually sitting out front and he’s working. I just came off of a Zoom call with some FedEx folks and he’s on that call as well. If you want to do it right, if you want to make sure you have top-notch sponsors helping you pay the bills on this thing you are going to have to work hard. I realize that there’s a lot that goes into it. I think that Tony (Stewart) really reaped the benefits of being with Joe Gibbs Racing for a very long time and when he went over to Stewart-Haas, he changed the culture there. He brought legitimacy and winning to that culture. I hope to do the same thing with this new team. I certainly see myself as working on this a couple of days a week, being in the meetings when I need to be in the meetings and delegating to the people that I have in charge, which is why I’m making sure that I have the right people in the right management positions to run this the correct way. They don’t need to check in with me with every little decision that they will make. I can trust them to be able to do that. As my career ends, way down the line. Way down the line, let’s be clear on that. That will be something where you will see me hopefully in that Joe Gibbs role, being there, calling the sponsors each and every week, downloading with them, walking around that shop floor and try to figure out how we can go faster. That’s when I’m going to be a lot more hands on with it, but that’s not to say that I’m not very hands on even now because we are in the building process. I want to make sure that it’s built correctly, so I’ve got a lot of input on that. Lots of emails, lots and lots of emails.”

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Denny Hamlin
#11 FedEx Shipathon Toyota
Joe Gibbs Racing

Race Info:
Race: Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500
Date/Time: Sunday, Oct. 25/3:30 p.m. ET
Distance: 334 laps/501 miles
Track Shape: Oval
Track Length: 1.5 Miles
Banking: 24 degrees
2019 Winner: Kevin Harvick

Express Notes:

Press Kit: Download the 2020 FedEx Racing press materials at www.fedexracing.com/presskit, including bios for Denny Hamlin, Chris Gabehart and Joe Gibbs Racing leadership, program highlights and statistics.

Kansas Recap: Hamlin started the race in seventh and had a fast FedEx Freight Toyota for the first half of the 267-lap event. He led 58 laps and won Stage 2 until right-side contact with the wall on Lap 180 forced an unscheduled green-flag pit stop to change tires and make repairs. The #11 FedEx Camry regained momentum after the incident, but Hamlin had too much ground to make up. Still, Hamlin and team were able to climb from 29th and a lap down to finish the race 15th. Joey Logano won the race and clinched a spot in the Championship 4. Hamlin now sits third in the Playoff standings behind Logano and Kevin Harvick with two races remaining in the Round of 8. That gives the FedEx Racing team two more chances – at Texas Motor Speedway and Martinsville Speedway – to earn one of the remaining three spots in the championship race at Phoenix Raceway.

Texas Preview: As the team moves deeper into the playoffs, two races remain in the Round of 8 as the series heads to Texas Motor Speedway for a 501-mile event on Sunday. In his 29 starts at the Fort Worth track, Hamlin has three victories including a recent victory last season. He and the FedEx #11 team look to continue their season-long success and earn a trip to not only Victory Lane, but also back into the Championship 4.

FedEx Shipathon Paint Scheme: This weekend Hamlin will run a special #11 FedEx Shipathon Toyota paint scheme to encourage customers to shop and ship early. This year’s holiday shipping season – the “Shipathon” – will be the busiest ever with more people buying and sending gifts from a distance instead of in person.

Hamlin Statistics:
Track: Texas Motor Speedway
Races: 29
Wins: 3
Poles: 0
Top-5: 7
Top-10: 13
Laps Led: 9458
Avg. Start: 13.5
Avg. Finish: 14.0

Hamlin Conversation – Texas:

With only two races left in the Round of 8, how important is it for you and your team to secure a victory this week in Texas?

“It’s very important, the whole team knows that. We’re coming down to the end of the season and we’re going to work as hard as we can to prepare and position ourselves to end up in Victory Lane every week that includes at Texas Motor Speedway.”

Looking at this round, besides you and Kevin Harvick, is there a certain driver who will put you in trouble in Phoenix should you make the Championship 4?

“Not really. I think we can beat anyone on any given week. So no, nobody in particular I’m really worried about. As long as we execute the way we know how, it really doesn’t matter if you pick the four strongest drivers at Phoenix – or the three other strongest drivers – it wouldn’t make a difference. We think it’s going to take a win to do it, and to win, you have to beat everyone.”

TEAM CHEVY ADVANCE
AUTOTRADER ECHOPARK AUTOMOTIVE 500
TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY
OCTOBER 25, 2020

TEXAS: RACE #34
With just two more chances for drivers to secure their spot in the Championship Four, the Playoff battle heightens as NASCAR’S three national series head to Texas Motor Speedway for race two of three of the Playoffs’ Round of Eight. The NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) 334-lap, 501-mile Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 at the 1.5-mile Texas oval will be the second appearance by NASCAR’s premier series thus far this season and the 34th stop on the tour’s schedule. The weekend’s event will mark the NCS’s 40th race at Texas Motor Speedway, with Richard Childress Racing and Team Chevy’s, Austin Dillon, returning as the most recent NCS winner at the track’s July event earlier this season.

It’s a jam-packed two-day event in the Lone Star State, with three NASCAR Playoff races over two days of action. The weekend gets started with an appearance by the NASCAR Xfinity Series with the O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 on Saturday, October 24th, at 4:30 p.m. ET. Day two of events consists of a rare NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series and NASCAR Cup Series doubleheader, starting with the SpeedyCash.com 400 for the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series on Sunday, October 25th, at 12:00 p.m. ET. The day is capped off with the NASCAR Cup Series Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 at 3:30 p.m. ET.

Fans will have the opportunity to view Sunday’s Playoff doubleheader action in-person. The July NASCAR Cup Series event at the Texas Motor Speedway was the first major league sporting event in the state of Texas to be open to spectators since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ROUND OF EIGHT: RACE TWO
Since the track’s addition into the Playoff schedule during the 2005 season, Texas Motor Speedway has been the host of the eighth race in the 10-race stretch. The 1.5-mile Texas oval is one of only two tracks that have been positioned as the eighth event, joining Phoenix Raceway (2004).

With three Team Chevy drivers in the Round of Eight fighting for a position in the Championship Four, here are where the Team Chevy drivers currently sit in the Playoff standings going into the second of three races, including key statistics at Texas Motor Speedway:

Chase Elliott, No. 9 Hooters Give a Hoot Camaro ZL1 1LE – 5th in Standings (4,074 points)
Victories: 3 (Charlotte Motor Speedway, Daytona Road Course, Charlotte Road Course)
Top-Fives: 13; Top-10’s: 20; Laps Led: 858; Average Finish: 12.1
Stage Wins: 9
At Texas: Top-Five’s: 2; Top-10’s: 5; Average Finish: 11.111 (fifth-best)

Alex Bowman, No. 88 Acronis Camaro ZL1 1LE – 6th in Standings (4,055 points)
Victories: 1 (Auto Club Speedway)
Top-Fives: 5; Top-10’s: 13; Laps Led: 396; Average Finish: 15.2
Stage Wins: 4
At Texas: Top-Five’s: 1; Top-10’s: 1; Average Finish: 25.6

Kurt Busch, No. 1 Monster Energy Camaro ZL1 1LE – 8th in Standings (4,009 points)
Victories: 1 (Las Vegas Motor Speedway)
Top-Fives: 6; Top-10’s: 17; Laps Led: 142; Average Finish: 13.9
Stage Wins: 1
At Texas: Wins: 1; Top-Five’s: 3; Top-10’s: 22; Average Finish: 14.5.16

BOWTIE BULLETS:
· Victories by active Team Chevy drivers at Texas Motor Speedway include:
Jimmie Johnson, No. 48 Ally Designed by Noah Sweet Camaro ZL1 1LE, with 7 wins (2007, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 sweep and 2017)
Matt Kenseth, No. 42 McDonald’s Camaro ZL1 1LE with 2 wins (2002 and 2011)
Kurt Busch, No. 1 Monster Energy Camaro ZL1, with one win (2009)
Austin Dillon, No. 3 DOW Sullair Camaro ZL1 1LE, with one win (2020)

· Of the 173 drivers that have competed in a NASCAR Cup Series event at Texas Motor Speedway, Chip Ganassi Racing and Chevrolet Driver, Kurt Busch, leads the series in starts with 35 in his career.

· 25 different NASCAR Cup Series drivers have sat on the pole at Texas Motor Speedway, with Chip Ganassi Racing and Chevrolet driver, Kurt Busch, leading the series with three (Spring 2015, Playoffs 2017, Spring 2018). His 2017 and 2018 NCS Busch Pole Awards make him just one of three drivers to win consecutive poles at the track. Of the four different manufacturers to win a pole at the 1.5-mile Texas oval, Chevrolet leads the way with 15.

· Chevrolet has made 14 trips to victory lane in NASCAR’s Premier Series at Texas Motor Speedway. Other statistics of note for the bowtie brand’s history at the 1.5-mile oval include 70 top-five’s, 165 top-10’s and 4,292 laps led.

· Chevrolet team, Hendrick Motorsports, leads the NASCAR Cup Series pole award and win categories, with seven poles and nine trips to victory lane.

· Through the 10-race NASCAR Cup Series Playoff stretch thus far, Hendrick Motorsports Chase Elliott and Alex Bowman lead the way in top-10 finishes with five each.

· Heading into his final race in his full-time NASCAR Cup Series career at Texas Motor Speedway, Hendrick Motorsports and Chevrolet driver, Jimmie Johnson, tops the leaderboard in a variety of categories in his 34 career starts:
o Johnson leads the series in victories at Texas Motor Speedway with seven (2007, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 sweep, 2017).
o Johnson is one of just three NASCAR Cup Series drivers to score consecutive wins at the 1.5-mile Texas oval.
o Johnson leads the series in runner-up finishes at Texas Motor Speedway with five, top-five finishes with 16 and top-10 finishes with 22.
o Johnson leads the series in number of laps led at Texas Motor Speedway with 1,152, giving him a laps led percentage of 10.6% at the track throughout his NASCAR Cup Series career.

LOOKING TO GO BACK-TO-BACK
The NASCAR Cup Series returns to the 1.5-mile Texas oval for the second time this season. Earlier this season, Team Chevy saw its fourteenth trip to victory lane at Texas Motor Speedway when Austin Dillon scored his first-career victory at the track in his No. 3 Camaro ZL1 1LE. The win was celebrated by his teammate, Tyler Reddick, No. 8 Camaro ZL1 1LE, who posted a Cup Series career-best second place finish in his series debut at the track. It was the first time since the 2011 Talladega event that Richard Childress Racing finished 1-2 in NASCAR’s premier series.

STARTING LINE-UP:
For the remainder of the 2020 NCS season, the starting lineups will be determined by a competition-based formula, combining the following metrics from the previous race event: 15% of a fastest lap time position, 25% of the driver’s final race finish position, 25% of the owner’s final race position and 35% of the Owner points position.

Here are Team Chevy’s top-20 starters for Sunday’s Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500:

4th Chase Elliott, No. 9 Hooters Give a Hoot Camaro ZL1 1LE
5th Alex Bowman, No. 88 Acronis Camaro ZL1 1LE
8th Kurt Busch, No. 1 Monster Energy Camaro ZL1 1LE
11th William Byron, No. 24 Liberty University Camaro ZL1 1LE
12th Austin Dillon, No. 3 DOW Sullair Camaro ZL1 1LE
18th Bubba Wallace, No. 43 Door Dash Camaro ZL1 1LE
19th Tyler Reddick, No. 8 Clark Pipeline Services Camaro ZL1 1LE

TUNE-IN:
NBCSN will telecast the Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 50 at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday, October 25th, at 3:30 p.m. ET. Live coverage of the 501-mile, 334-lap event for race two of three for the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs Round of 8 can also be found on the NBC Sports Gold app, PRN, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.

QUOTABLE QUOTES:
CHASE ELLIOTT, NO. 9 HOOTERS GIVE A HOOT CAMARO ZL1 1LE – 5th IN STANDINGS
“Texas is just a different animal since the repave and I feel like we had some great runs there. I love going to Texas before they repaved it and just felt like I had a nice feel of the racetrack and I knew what I wanted. It was a very, kind of natural thing for me for whatever reason. I kind of lucked into that I guess, but man after the repave it’s been a struggle. I feel like it’s one of our worst tracks as a team and Texas is a bad place to struggle because if you make it to the Round of 8 it’s a track that seems like it’s always right there at the tail end of the season. It’s an important track to have a good performance at that can propel you to a potential final four run. Those types of struggles at a track like that, where it falls in the playoffs is not ideal so I hope we can get a little better out there.”

ALEX BOWMAN, NO. 88 ACRONIS CAMARO ZL1 1LE – 6th IN STANDINGS
“We had a good run in Kansas last weekend and captured stage points which is what we needed to do. The points don’t look good in our situation, so we really need to go to Texas and have a strong car from the start. Hendrick Motorsports’ Intermediate program is definitely strong, and I know that this No. 88 team has been working hard on our Texas Camaro. Last time Acronis was on our car we ran really well in Dover, so hopefully we can get the job done for them this weekend.”

AUSTIN DILLON, NO. 3 DOW SULLAIR CAMARO ZL1 1LE – 10th IN STANDINGS
TELL US ABOUT RACING AT TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY AND HOW IT DIFFERS FROM OTHER 1.5-MILE TRACKS, SUCH AS KANSAS SPEEDWAY?
“Texas Motor Speedway is a bit different from Kansas Speedway in that it has two different ends. You have one end that’s very banked and has high speeds, and then you have a hard end where you have to get turned and get back on the gas. Texas Motor Speedway just has so much grip now. It’s quite a bit different, and the banking has changed a lot from the old track to the new track. I really like Texas and am looking forward to getting there. Our cars have been strong on 1.5-mile tracks this year, and we will look to some of that speed to try and get the No. 3 DOW Sullair Chevy into Victory Lane.”

YOU WON AT TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY IN JULY. HOW DOES THAT CHANGE YOUR MINDSET GOING INTO THE RACE THIS WEEKEND?
“I think our team remains just as hungry as ever to get back to Victory Lane. My RCR team has been really strong on mile-and-a-half tracks this season, and I know that we have everything we need to try and back up our performance from July. We’re going to attack from the opening green flag.”

WILLIAM BYRON, NO. 24 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY CAMARO ZL1 1LE – 12th IN STANDINGS
“With both ends of Texas being different you have to find a compromise some on your handling instead of focusing on one set of turns over the other. I think in (turns) 3 and 4, speed makes the biggest difference through there. When you’re in (turns) 1 and 2 it’s more about the handling of your car but still having good speed out of 2 so you can get down the backstretch and set up your entry to turn 3 with a good pace. It’s a lot different of a race track than we’re used to and compared to how it was. Now it’s very unique and makes for an interesting challenge especially as the race progresses.”

JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 ALLY DESIGNED BY NOAH SWEET CAMARO ZL1 1LE – 18th IN STANDINGS
“The biggest change at Texas over the years is new reconfiguration. The new asphalt has made the racing more single file. I love how supportive the market is of the racing venue – I love the Dallas, Fort Worth area, we have really good friends there and usually our stay is extended. The best memory I have is when I was able to duel with Matt Kenseth. Matt and I had nothing to gain, I knew I had a good car and so I went after it knowing Matt would race me clean and he wouldn’t make a mistake. It was certainly an exciting finish and although Matt probably didn’t like the outcome, it was one of my most memorable battles for a win.”

TYLER REDDICK, NO. 8 CLARK PIPELINE SERVICES CAMARO ZL1 1LE – 19th IN STANDINGS
WHAT IS THE BIGGEST LESSON YOU TOOK AWAY FROM TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY EARLIER THIS YEAR WHEN RCR FINISHED 1-2?
“Well, the way we went about that race is now out in the open and everyone knows how we did it, so I’m not sure that strategy will work when we go back this weekend. We’ll have to come up with something a little different this time. Texas is going to be a little bit like Kansas in the way that you have to take all the track position you can get and not make mistakes. The people you pass once are going to then understand where you were better than they were, so if you have to pass them a second time around they’ll know how to defend against you. That’s what makes it so hard racing in the Cup Series. Everyone is so smart about it. We’re going to need a really solid race in our No. 8 Clark Pipeline Services Chevrolet to be able to grab a good finish this weekend.”

Chevrolet NASCAR Cup Series Statistics

Manufacturers Championships:
Total (1949-2019): 39
First title for Chevrolet: 1958
Highest number of consecutive titles: 13 (2003-15)

Years Won: 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

Drivers Championships:
Total (1949-2019): 31
First Chevrolet champion: Buck Baker (1957)
Highest number of consecutive titles: 7 (2005-11)

Years Won: 1957, 1960, 1961, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016

Event Victories:
Record for total race wins in single season: 26 (2007)

2020 STATISTICS:
Wins: 7
Poles: 3
Laps Led: 1,933
Top-five finishes: 46
Top-10 finishes: 112

CHEVROLET IN NASCAR CUMULATIVE STATISTICS:
Total Chevrolet race wins: 793 (1949 to date)
Poles won to date: 717
Laps led to date: 236,239
Top-five finishes to date: 4,060
Top-10 finishes to date: 8,394

Total NASCAR Cup wins by corporation, 1949 to date

       General Motors: 1,127
       Chevrolet: 793
       Pontiac: 154
       Oldsmobile: 115
       Buick: 65

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       Ford: 704
       Mercury: 96
       Lincoln: 4

       Fiat Chrysler Automobiles: 467
       Dodge: 217
       Plymouth: 191
       Chrysler: 59

       Toyota: 151

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