Numbers Game: 2011 Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at the Glen
1 – Drivers from Australia to win in the Sprint Cup Series. Marcos Ambrose became the first driver to pull off the feat on Monday.
1 – Drivers from Australia to win in the Sprint Cup Series. Marcos Ambrose became the first driver to pull off the feat on Monday.
Watkins Glen couldn’t come soon enough on the schedule for Chase bubble drivers such as Juan Pablo Montoya, Marcos Ambrose and AJ Allmendinger.
A Kurt Busch sweep of the road courses, much like Kyle Busch did in 2008, is a real possibility this weekend.
0 Top-10 finishes for Jeff Burton in 21 starts this season. He is the only driver in the top 30 in the standings who hasn’t …
Entering 2011, *Trevor Bayne*, *Regan Smith* and *Paul Menard* had combined to score just two top-5 finishes in 244 starts. Twenty races later, they have more wins (three) than they had _top-5s_ before this season in what’s been a watershed year for first-time winners. These three underdog drivers, in particular have shined, sweeping arguably NASCAR’s biggest three races — the Daytona 500, the Southern 500 and Sunday’s Brickyard 400.
9 – Brickyard 400s won by a Chevrolet.
The Brickyard 400 sits behind only the Daytona 500 on most driver wish lists.
4 – the number of top-10 finishes for Johnny Sauter in five truck starts at Nashville.
4 – the number of top-30 finishes this season for rookie Andy Lally. He was 28th at New Hampshire.
No matter what plan you are on, here is who will be good in Loudon, N.H.
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