32
The number of lead changes on Sunday (March 16) at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
It’s a new record for a Las Vegas NASCAR Cup Series race, as the previous high was 28 in the 2007 running won by Jimmie Johnson.
Sunday, 2007 and the March 2021 event are the only Cup races at Las Vegas to have more than 25 lead changes.
206
The number of Cup Series winners in the 77-year history of NASCAR.
The Next Gen era has seen eight first-time winners, with five in 2022. The 2023 and 2024 seasons both featured one first-time winner: Shane van Gisbergen and Harrison Burton, respectively.
10
The number of consecutive Cup seasons with a first-time winner.
Every season since 2016 has seen at least one first-time winner, with 22 drivers adding their names to the record books. The most successful of the 22 is Kyle Larson, who has won 29 races and the 2021 championship since his first trip to the winner’s circle in 2016.
1
The number of NASCAR Weekly Series champions to find victory lane in the Cup Series.
Josh Berry won the 2020 NASCAR Advanced Auto Parts Weekly Series championship (a NASCAR-sanctioned title held at local tracks across the country) and became a trailblazer as the first champion to reach victory lane at NASCAR’s highest level.
Before Berry, the best Cup finish by a Weekly champion was Mike Alexander (the 1983 winner), who finished third at Atlanta Motor Speedway in 1988.
7.91
Berry’s average running position (ARP) at Las Vegas.
It was the third-best ARP for all drivers on Sunday, as only the Hendrick Motorsports teammates William Byron and Larson posted better ARPs (7.52 and 7.57, respectively) than Berry.
2011
The last time, prior to Berry’s win, that a Tennessean had gone to victory lane in Cup.
That driver was Trevor Bayne from Knoxville, Tenn., who won the 2011 Daytona 500 in a huge upset while coincidentally driving for Wood Brothers Racing.
A total of 103 Cup races have been won by Tennesseans — according to the driver hometowns listed on Racing Reference — with Darrell Waltrip (84), Sterling Marlin (10), Bobby Hamilton (four), Joe Lee Johnson (two) and Paul Lewis (one) winning the remaining 101.
9
The number of drivers to score their first career Cup win with the Wood Brothers.
Those drivers are Glen Wood (1960), Tiny Lund (1963), Kyle Petty (1986), Dale Jarrett (1991), Elliott Sadler (2001), Bayne (2011), Ryan Blaney (2017), Burton (2024) and Berry.
1986-87
The last time the Wood Brothers put together consecutive winning seasons.
Those wins were the 1986 Richmond Raceway spring race and the 1987 Coca-Cola 600, both won by Petty.
1999
The last time car No. 60 finished scored a top-three finish in a Cup race prior to Sunday.
Ryan Preece finished third at Las Vegas, tying the best finish of his Cup career.
The last driver to score a top-three finish in a No. 60 car was Geoffrey Bodine, who finished third at Martinsville Speedway in October 1999 while driving for Joe Bessey.
In 361 combined Cup starts, a No. 60 car has gone to victory lane once. That was back in 1950, as Bill Rexford scored his lone Cup win en route to the 1950 championship.
2
The number of pit boxes Christopher Bell used to change tires on lap 117.
In one of the most unorthodox and brilliant strategies seen in a long time, Bell and crew chief Adam Stevens took “pitting outside the box” to a whole new level by stopping in Chase Briscoe’s pit box further down the pit road to tighten up a left rear lug nut that they believed was loose.
It sent Bell to the tail end of the field for the ensuing restart — a restart that saw Kyle Busch lose a wheel just two turns after the green flag waved.
247
The number of laps Joey Logano has led in the last five races without a top 10.
Logano has led 40-plus laps in four of the five races this season, but it has only translated to a best finish of 12th. He’s the only reigning champion who failed to score a top-10 finish in the first five starts of his championship defense.
In addition, he’s more than halfway to equaling his laps led total from his 2024 title, as he led a total of 414 laps last season.
7
The number of poles Michael McDowell has won in his last 40 starts.
After starting his Cup career with zero poles in 466 starts, McDowell leads all drivers with seven poles since the start of last season.
Five of those poles came at superspeedway tracks, while two of them — including his pole at Las Vegas — were won on non-superspeedway ovals.
33
The number of racing weekends left in the 2025 NASCAR season.
Until next week.
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