Toyota Owners 400 Race Preview

NASCAR will return to Richmond International Raceway for the first time this season. As teams will head out likely late this evening or very early Wednesday for the track. Lets take a look at a few things concerning the track and its history. 

Track Facts

Track Length: 0.75 Miles

Race Lengths: 300 Miles (400 Laps)

Grandstand Capacity: 51,000+

First Race: April 19, 1953 – Richmond 200

Banking in Corners: 14 degrees

Banking on Frontstretch: 8 degrees

Banking on Backstretch: 2 degrees

Length of Frontstretch: 1,290 feet

Length of Backstretch: 860 feet

Qualifying & Race Records

Qualifying: Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 130.599 mph (20.674 sec.); Sept. 6, 2013

Race: Dale Jarrett, Ford, 109.047 mph (2:45:04); Sept. 6, 1997

Track Records

Most Wins: 13 – Richard Petty

Most Poles: 8 – Bobby Allison, Richard Petty

Most Top Fives: 34 – Richard Petty

Most Top 10s: 41 – Richard Petty

Most Lead Changes: 25 – 2 times, most recently 3/3/96

Fewest Lead Changes: 2 – 7 times, most recently 2/23/75

Most Leaders: 12 – 4 times, most recently 5/6/07

Fewest Leaders: 2 – 7 times, most recently 9/6/14

Most Cautions: 16 – 9/10/2016

Fewest Cautions: 1 – 3 times, most recently 3/1/70

Most Caution Laps: 123 – 2 times, most recently 9/8/74

Fewest Caution Laps: 6 – 6/5/60

Most on the Lead Lap: 32 – 9/7/08

Fewest on the Lead Lap: 1 – 22 times, most recently 10/12/75

Most Running at the Finish: 43 – 9/7/08

Fewest Running at the Finish: 1 – 4/19/53

Most Laps Led by a Race Winner: 488 – 9/13/70

Fewest Laps Led by a Race Winner: 3 – 4/27/13

Most Wins by a Manufacturer: 40 – Chevrolet

Closest Margin of Victory: 0.051 Seconds – 9/12/98

Greatest Margin of Victory: 6.184 Seconds – 9/7/02

Margins of Victory under electronic timing since 1993.

Races won from Pole (24 of 132)

Buck Baker 1956

Speedy Thompson 1958

Cotton Owens 1959

Richard Petty 1961, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1974, 1975

Junior Johnson 1965

David Pearson 1966, 1969

Bobby Allison 1974, 1982

Darrell Waltrip 1978, 1980, 1984

Davey Allison 1988

Bill Elliott 1992

Kasey Kahne 2005

Jimmie Johnson 2007

Kyle Busch 2010

Brad Keselowski 2014

Denny Hamlin 2016

Drivers with the most poles at the track 

Bobby Allison 8

Richard Petty 8

The driver with the most race wins at the track is. 

Richard Petty 13 

The owner with the most wins

Joe Gibbs 18

Rowan County Weather will provide updates leading into the race this Sunday night and will provide post-race updates as well.