Kahne aiming to rekindle Truck success at Pocono (NASCAR.com)
July 29, 2010
0 — Previous Truck Series races at Pocono Raceway.
2—Victories in his first two starts for Kasey Kahne. He’s the only driver in NASCAR to win his first two series starts, and he’ll be going for No. 3 on Saturday. His previous two victories, however, came in 2004.
3 — Cup regulars on the entry list for the Truck race. In addition to Kahne, Denny Hamlin and Elliott Sadler will also strap into trucks at Pocono.
4 — Victories by Todd Bodine on ovals 2.5 miles or longer, the most of all drivers. He has finished in the top five nine times this season—every race except those run on short tracks.
10 — Number of victories in the series’ debut at a track by Ron Hornaday. He captured the victory in the first races run at Infineon, Evergreen, Flemington, Memphis, Bakersfield, Loudon, Pikes Peak, Tucson, Watkins Glen and Topeka.
12 — Top-10 starts by Johnny Sauter, the only driver in the series to have done so.
13 — Number of tracks in Pennsylvania which have hosted a NASCAR national touring series event.
22 — Winless streak snapped by Ron Hornaday last week at ORP, the third-longest drought of his career. He went 28 races from 2005-06 and 23 from 1999-2002.
28 — States in which the Truck Series has competed.
40 — The fewest number of laps in a Truck race was 40 at Infineon in 1995; the 50 scheduled at Pocono will be the second-fewest laps in a series race. The shortest mileage a Truck race has raced on a superspeedway is 80 miles, Phoenix in Feb. 1995.
255 — Points gained on second place by Ron Hornaday in a five-race stretch in 2009; he’s currently 212 behind Todd Bodine for the points lead.
313 — Points by which Ron Hornaday outscored Todd Bodine in the final 13 races of the 2009 season.
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