Check out some of the stats that NASCAR put out about Atlanta Motor Speedway:
.006 seconds: Margin of victory for Kevin Harvick over Jeff Gordon in the Spring 2001 race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, the closest ever in the track’s history.
1: Total number of drivers to win a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR Nationwide Series race on the same weekend, which Carl Edwards did in the Spring of 2005.
2: The fewest cautions during the running of the 1977 Atlanta 500.
3 hours, 3 minutes, 3 seconds in the No. 3 Chevrolet: Dale Earnhardt’s record time for a 500-mile Cup race at AMS on November 12, 1995. (NB&P: OK, so tell me how wacky that is with the 3′s?)
7: Most NASCAR Sprint Cup Series pole wins by one driver, shared by Buddy Baker and Ryan Newman. Baker was Newman’s NASCAR racing mentor. (NB&P asks: Will Ryan make it 8 this weekend?)
9: Most individual wins at Atlanta Motor Speedway by Dale Earnhardt.
20: Total length in miles of wiring used in television production of a NASCAR race.
You have to love the following statistic:
30: The time in seconds it took race fans to purchase 1,000 $1 tickets online and by phone to the Kobalt Tools 500 after Jaime McMurray won the Daytona 500 in the No. 1 Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet. AMS sold $1 tickets to commemorate McMurray’s win in the No. 1 car.
45: Record number of lead changes in the fall NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race in 1982.
66: Number of AMS starts for Richard Petty, the record for all drivers at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
92: Number of 500-mile races staged at Atlanta Motor Speedway, the most of any NASCAR-sanctioned track. (Eight events in the 1960s were 250, 300 and 400-mile events.)
133.87 mph: Pole speed for the July 31, 1960 Dixie 300, the inaugural NASCAR race at AMS. Fireball Roberts sat on the pole and won the race.
197.478 mph: Track record for one-lap NASCAR Sprint Cup Series qualifying set by Geoffrey Bodine in November 1997.
26,807: Total number of miles driven at Atlanta Motor Speedway by Richard Petty, the most of any NASCAR driver in Atlanta ‘s history.
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