Charlotte Stats-n-Stuff
Ryan Newman will make his 200th Cup Start.
Hendrick can tie Petty with 5 Wins inarow for 5th All-Time
Consecutive Owner Wins.
Tony Stewart turned 36 on 5/20.

6/19/49 Charlotte Speedway 1st NASCAR Sanctioned Race .75mi dirt,
150 miler won by Jim Roper. Had 12 races from '49 thru '56.

Charlotte Fairgrounds aka Concord Speedway .5mi dirt,
100 milers, 12 races from '56 thru '64.
2/28/60 Richard Petty's 1stW in 35th start.

Charlotte Motor Speedway 1.5mi Paved:
6/19/60 the 1st 600 mile race won by Joe Lee Johnson.
10/16/60 Speedy Thompson won the 400 mile race.
5/21/61 there were 2 Pts-Paying Qualifyers of 100mi for The 600:
RPetty won the 1st & Joe Weatherly won the 2nd.

There have been 96 races at Char 1.5mi with 40 dif winners.
16 of the last 28 have started in the Top10=57%.
Farthest back was 41st-Jimmie Johnson'05.

1st Cup wins 600: MK'00, BL'95, JG'94, DPearson'61.
1st sts 600: DEJ'99, ES'98, MW'85, DE'75.
1st Cup wins 500: JMcMurray'02, Buddy Baker'67.
1st sts 500: Ruty'05, Vic'03, JJ'01, KLePage'97, JMayfield'93.

Total Charlotte Wins-Coke600 Wins (ties broken by C600 wins)
6-5 Darrell Waltrip
6-3 Bobby Allison
5-3 Jimmie Johnson-4WROW:Swept'05-'04 & 3WROW C600's:'05,'04,'03.
5-3 Dale Earnhardt
5-2-1 Richard Petty-'61 100mi Q'r
4-3 David Pearson
4-3 Jeff Gordon'99-last Char Win
4-3 Buddy Baker
4-2 Fred Lorenzen
4-1 Mark Martin'02
3-1 Dale Jarrett'97
2-2 Jeff Burton'01
2-1 Bobby Labonte'00
2-1 Kasey Kahne'06-has a current sweep
2-0 Bill Elliott'87
One: KPetty-5/87, KSchrader'89, MKenseth-5/00, SMarlin'01,
JMcMurray'02 in SM's car-his only win in 2nd start, TS'03.
0fers: RRudd-59, MWaltrip-44, JMayfield-25, JNemechek-25, WBurton-22,
KWallace-21, ESadler-17, DEJ-15, KuBusch-13, RGordon-13,
RNewman-12, KHarvick-12, GBiffle-8.

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