Did You Know? NASCAR Facts & Figures

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DID YOU KNOW?

Wow Your Friends with These NASCAR Facts and Figures

BY BEN WHITE

1During the 1972 NASCAR Cup Series season, Bobby Allison drove Richard Howard’s No. 12 Chevrolet and won 10 races. The team’s entire primary sponsorship for the 29-race season amounted to $100,000.

2While driving for team owner Junior Johnson, Darrell Waltrip collected 43 of his 84 NASCAR Cup Series victories, as well as series championships in 1981, ’82 and ’85.

3Between 1976 and ’78, Cale Yarborough earned three consecutive NASCAR Cup Series championships while driving for team owner Junior Johnson. He was the first driver in NASCAR history to collect three in a row.

4Johnny Mantz listens to NASCAR founder Bill France alongside Alvin Hawkins, co-founder of Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Mantz won the inaugural Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in 1950.

5While working at Petty Enterprises, Maurice Petty built winning engines that propelled his father, Lee Petty, and brother, Richard Petty, to 10 NASCAR Cup Series championships and a total of 268 race victories.

6The résumé of motorsports icon Roger Penske includes 16 Indy car national championships and 18 Indianapolis 500 victories. His NASCAR Cup series titles came in 2012 with Brad Keselowski and 2018 with Joey Logano.

7Eighty-two cars took the green flag to start the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. There were 24 cars running at the finish when Herb Thomas took the checkered flag.

8Stewart-Hass Racing’s Ryan Newman started from the pole in the 2013 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Newman was one of four drivers to win the Indy race from the pole. Kevin Harvick won it from the pole twice.