NASCAR Stats Tracker: Talladega
Which Chase drivers fare well at Talladega Superspeedway and which Chase drivers tend to struggle? Our driver chart breaks down all the key statistics.
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| Chase drivers at Talladega Superspeedway | ||||||||
| Driver | Races | Poles | Wins | Top Fives | Top 10s | DNFs | Avg. Finish | Best Finish |
| Jimmie Johnson | 17 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 17.8 | 1 |
| Denny Hamlin | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 19.3 | 3 |
| Kevin Harvick | 19 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 15.5 | 1 |
| Kyle Busch | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 23.2 | 1 |
| Jeff Gordon | 35 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 16 | 8 | 16.7 | 1 |
| Carl Edwards | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 22.5 | 5 |
| Tony Stewart | 23 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 14.8 | 1 |
| Jeff Burton | 33 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 5 | 18.4 | 3 |
| Kurt Busch | 19 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 12.8 | 3 |
| Matt Kenseth | 21 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 18.7 | 3 |
| Greg Biffle | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 22.0 | 4 |
| Clint Bowyer | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 21.4 | 5 |
Odds and ends
There have been 80 Cup races at Talladega since the track opened in 1969; two a year every year except the inaugural season, which had just one.
Richard Brickhouse won the first Cup race at Talladega.
Bobby Isaac was the pole-sitter for the first three races at Talladega.
There have been 35 different drivers to win poles at Talladega. Juan Pablo Montoya captured his first career pole in this season’s spring race at the track.
Bill Elliott leads all drivers with eight poles at Talladega.
There have been 38 different drivers to post victories at Talladega.
Dale Earnhardt Sr. leads all drivers with 10 victories at Talladega. Jeff Gordon leads active drivers with six wins.
There are 18 drivers with multiple wins at Talldega.
Brad Keselowski became a first-time Cup winner at Talladega in the spring.
Hendrick Motorsports has won 10 races at Talladega, more than any other organization.
31 of 80 races at Talladega have been won from a top-two starting position, including 13 from the pole; 22 have been won from a starting position outside the top 10. The most recent driver to win from the pole was Gordon in spring 2007.
The furthest back in the field a race winner has started is 36th (Gordon in 2000). Two of the last four races have been won from the 34th starting position (Gordon in 2007 and Tony Stewart in 2008).
Mark Martin’s pace in the 1997 spring race set an all-time Cup record for the fastest race ever. He won the caution-free race with an average speed of 188.354 mph and covered the 500-mile distance in two hours, 39 minutes and 18 seconds.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. had four consecutive victories at Talladega from October 2001 through April 2003, the most ever by a driver at track. Buddy Baker won three in a row fron May 1975 through May 1976 and is the only other driver to win more than two consecutive races at Talladega.
Since the inception of electronic scoring in 1993, every race that has ended under green has had a margin of victory under one second.
