At Charlotte Motor Speedway:
History
· Construction began on Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1959.
· The track’s first NASCAR Sprint Cup race was held on June 19, 1960.
· The track was repaved midseason in 1994.
· The
track name changed from Charlotte Motor Speedway to Lowe’s Motor
Speedway in 1999. It changed back to Charlotte Motor Speedway for the
2010 season.
· The track was re-paved again before the 2006 season.
Notebook
· There
have been 106 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points races at Charlotte Motor
Speedway, two races per year since the track opened in 1960. In 1961,
there were two 100-mile qualifying points races held the week before the
May race. The first six fall races at Charlotte were 400-mile events
(1960-65).
· 39 drivers have posted poles, led by David Pearson with 14.
· Fireball Roberts won the pole for the first race, in 1960.
· David Pearson posted 11 straight poles at Charlotte from the fall of 1973 through 1978.
· Ryan Newman leads all active drivers in poles, with nine. Jeff Gordon has eight.
· Jeff Gordon won five straight poles for the spring races between 1994 and 1998.
· 44 drivers have won races, led by Bobby Allison, Darrell Waltrip and Jimmie Johnson, with six each.
· Joe Lee Johnson won the first race, in 1960.
· There have been 13 back-to-back victories, including three consecutive by Fred Lorenzen (fall 1964 and both 1965) and four straight by Jimmie Johnson (both in 2004 and 2005).
· A
NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race/Coca-Cola 600 sweep has occurred seven
times: Darrell Waltrip (1985), Davey Allison (’91), Dale Earnhardt
(’93), Jeff Gordon (’97), Jimmie Johnson (2003), Kasey Kahne (’08), Kurt
Busch (’10).
· 14 races have been won from the pole, the last by Jimmie Johnson (October, 2009).
· Jimmie Johnson won the 2003 Coca-Cola 600 from the 37th starting position, the furthest back a race winner has started.
· Joey Logano is the only driver with more than two Charlotte races to average top-10 finish (8.2).
· A number of active drivers earned their first win at CMS: Jeff Gordon, Matt Kenseth, Bobby Labonte, Jamie McMurray, Casey Mears and David Reutimann. Inactive drivers David Pearson, Buddy Baker and Charlie Glotzbach also got their first series win at Charlotte.
· Youngest NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Charlotte Motor Speedway winner: Jeff Gordon (10/10/1993 – 22 years, 2 months, 6 days).Oldest NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Charlotte Motor Speedway winner: Cale Yarborough (10/06/1985 – 46 years, 6 months, 9 days)
Charlotte Motor Speedway Data
Race #: 12 of 36 (05-27-12)
Track Size: 1.5 miles
Race Length: 501.322 miles
· Banking/Turns: 24 degrees
· Banking/Frontstretch: 5 degrees
· Banking/Backstretch: 5 degrees
· Frontstretch: 1,980 feet
· Backstretch: 1,500 feet
Top 12 Driver Rating at Charlotte
Jimmie Johnson........................ 111.0
Kyle Busch............................... 106.6
Matt Kenseth.............................. 95.2
Kasey Kahne.............................. 94.8
Joey Logano.............................. 93.5
Greg Biffle.................................. 89.2
Carl Edwards.............................. 88.4
Denny Hamlin............................. 87.5
Mark Martin................................. 87.4
Jeff Gordon................................ 86.9
Jeff Burton................................. 85.4
Tony Stewart............................... 85.0
Note: Driver Rating compiled from 2005-2011 races (14 total) at Charlotte.
Qualifying/Race Data
2011 pole winner: Brad Keselowski (192.089 mph, 28.112 seconds)
2011 race winner: Kevin Harvick (132.414 mph, 05-29-11)
Track qualifying record: Elliott Sadler (193.216 mph, 27.948 seconds, 10-13-05)
Track race record: Bobby Labonte (151.952 mph, 05-28-95)
Driver Ratings for Winners
|
Driver
|
Year
|
Driver Rating
|
Series Driver Rating Rank
|
|
Kevin Harvick
|
2011
|
69.8
|
23rd
|
|
Kurt Busch
|
2010
|
81.6
|
14th
|
|
David Reutimann
|
2009
|
59.2
|
31st
|
|
Kasey Kahne
|
2008
|
97.6
|
3rd
|
|
Casey Mears
|
2007
|
77.4
|
17th
|
|
Kasey Kahne
|
2006
|
74.1
|
19th
|
* Pre-Race Driver Ratings of the year the driver won at Charlotte (last six spring races).
NASCAR in North Carolina
· There have been 514 NASCAR Sprint Cup races in North Carolina.
|
Track Name
|
City
|
NSCS
|
|
Charlotte Motor Speedway
|
Concord
|
106
|
|
Rockingham Speedway
|
Rockingham
|
78
|
|
Asheville-Weaverville Speedway
|
Weaverville
|
34
|
|
Bowman-Gray Stadium
|
Winston-Salem
|
29
|
|
Champion Speedway
|
Fayetteville
|
4
|
|
Charlotte Speedway
|
Charlotte
|
12
|
|
Cleveland County Fairgrounds
|
Shelby
|
6
|
|
Concord Speedway
|
Concord
|
12
|
|
Dog Track Speedway
|
Moyock
|
7
|
|
Forsyth County Fairgrounds
|
Winston-Salem
|
2
|
|
Gastonia Fairgrounds
|
Gastonia
|
1
|
|
Greensboro Agriculture Fairgrounds
|
Greensboro
|
3
|
|
Harnett Speedway
|
Spring Lake
|
1
|
|
Harris Speedway
|
Harris
|
2
|
|
Hickory Speedway
|
Hickory
|
35
|
|
Jacksonville Speedway
|
Jacksonville
|
2
|
|
McCormick Field
|
Asheville
|
1
|
|
New Asheville Speedway
|
Asheville
|
8
|
|
North Carolina State Fairgrounds
|
Raleigh
|
3
|
|
North Wilkesboro Speedway
|
North Wilkesboro
|
93
|
|
Occoneechee Speedway
|
Hillsboro
|
32
|
|
Raleigh Speedway
|
Raleigh
|
7
|
|
Salisbury Super Speedway
|
Salisbury
|
1
|
|
Southern States Fairgrounds
|
Charlotte
|
17
|
|
Star Lite Speedway
|
Monroe
|
1
|
|
Tar Heel Speedway
|
Randleman
|
3
|
|
Tri-City Speedway
|
High Point
|
2
|
|
Wilson Speedway
|
Wilson
|
12
|
· 427 drivers in NASCAR’s three national series (all-time) have their home state recorded as North Carolina.
· There have been 44 race winners from North Carolina in NASCAR’s three national series; 28 in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series:
|
Driver
|
NSCS
|
NNS
|
NCWTS
|
|
Richard Petty
|
200
|
0
|
0
|
|
Dale Earnhardt
|
76
|
21
|
0
|
|
Lee Petty
|
54
|
0
|
0
|
|
Ned Jarrett
|
50
|
0
|
0
|
|
Junior Johnson
|
50
|
0
|
0
|
|
Herb Thomas
|
48
|
0
|
0
|
|
Buck Baker
|
46
|
0
|
0
|
|
Bobby Isaac
|
37
|
0
|
0
|
|
Dale Jarrett
|
32
|
11
|
0
|
|
Jim Paschal
|
25
|
0
|
0
|
|
Benny Parsons
|
21
|
0
|
0
|
|
Speedy Thompson
|
20
|
0
|
0
|
|
Buddy Baker
|
19
|
0
|
0
|
|
Dale Earnhardt Jr
|
18
|
23
|
0
|
|
Harry Gant
|
18
|
21
|
0
|
|
Bob Welborn
|
9
|
0
|
0
|
|
Kyle Petty
|
8
|
0
|
0
|
|
Morgan Shepherd
|
4
|
15
|
0
|
|
Bill Blair
|
3
|
0
|
0
|
|
Gwyn Staley
|
3
|
0
|
0
|
|
Billy Myers
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
|
Jimmy Pardue
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
|
Brian Vickers
|
2
|
3
|
0
|
|
Richard Brickhouse
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
|
Phil Parsons
|
1
|
2
|
0
|
|
Leon Sales
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
|
Buddy Shuman
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
|
Donald Thomas
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
|
Jack Ingram
|
0
|
31
|
0
|
|
Tommy Houston
|
0
|
24
|
0
|
|
Sam Ard
|
0
|
22
|
0
|
|
Robert Pressley
|
0
|
10
|
2
|
|
Scott Riggs
|
0
|
4
|
5
|
|
Hank Parker Jr
|
0
|
2
|
0
|
|
Johnny Rumley
|
0
|
2
|
0
|
|
Dennis Setzer
|
0
|
2
|
18
|
|
Ed Berrier
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
|
Justin Labonte
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
|
Stephen Leicht
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
|
Austin Dillon
|
0
|
0
|
4
|
|
Andy Houston
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
|
Timothy Peters
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
|
Ricky Hendrick
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
|
Shane Hmiel
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
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