TV: FX, 7:30 p.m. ET

Laps: 400
Race length: 300 miles
Purse: $3.2 million

Qualifying record: Jeff Gordon, 126.499 mph, 1999
Race record: Rusty Wallace, 108.499 mph, 1997

DRIVERS TO WATCH

Johnny Benson -- Put out good runs in the first 10 races; finished six races in the top-10 and just missed another with an 11th at the NAPA Auto Parts 500 in California; remained third in the Winston Cup points, 45 behind second place Jeff Gordon; top finish was third in Texas; looks for his first career series win.

Jeff Burton -- A home coming of sorts for the South Boston, Virginia native; has one win at Richmond in the fall of 1998; was seventh last spring and improved that to fifth in the fall event; only two top-10 finishes in the first 10 races, with the others poor finishes of 18th or lower.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. -- Took the lead on lap 370 to lead the final 31 laps and hold off a late challenge by Terry Labonte; it was his second career Winston Cup win; finished third in the NAPA Auto Parts 500 at California Speedway on the day his father would have turned 50 (Earnhardt was killed in a last lap crash at the Daytona 500); climbed from a season-low 26th up to 10th in the points standings.

Jeff Gordon -- The runner-up finish to Rusty Wallace in California was his sixth top-10 result in 10 races; remained second in the standings behind Dale Jarrett for the fifth straight race; is the money leader with $2,560,356; won the Chevrolet Monte Carlo 400 last September at Richmond and finished 14th earlier in the year; has eight top-five finishes in 16 races at Richmond; set qualifying record mark of 126.499 mph in 1999.

Bobby Hamilton -- Barring last year when he finished both Richmond races outside the top 30, he has finished in the top 10 in eight of 10 races at the short track; one of eight different winners this year; took checkered flag at the Talladega 500 for his fourth career win; seventh in the standings with 1,230 points.

Dale Jarrett -- Lowest finish in 10 races was 24th at California Speedway last Sunday; a result he'd like to erase at the .750 mile raceway at Richmond where he finished third in the spring race last year; won the race in 1999; leads the series standings and wins with three; advantage was reduced to 66 points over Jeff Gordon.

Bobby Labonte -- Already off pace to defend his Winston Cup title with just three top-10s in 10 races; is a distant 15th in the standings, 373 points behind leader Dale Jarrett; top finish was second in the Dura Lube 400.

Terry Labonte -- Is a three time-winner at Richmond, having won the spring race in 1998 and 1995, and the fall event in 1994; has one top five and two top-10s in 10 races, good for 18th place in the points standings.

Mark Martin -- A struggling season by his standards; the fourth place in the Talladega 500 was one of just three top-10s; all other showings were 20th or lower, which puts him 23rd in the points standings; in 30 starts at small oval, he has won in 1990 and has 17 top-10s overall.

Jerry Nadeau -- Best finish at Richmond was 10th, a record he looks to improve; team is working together well right now and is taking a car that has not been raced this year; his eighth place finish in California on Sunday was the third top-10 of the year.

Tony Stewart -- Richmond is the site of Stewart's first career NASCAR win in September 1999; led 333 of 400 laps and nearly made it two straight at the track if not for a pit road run-in with Dale Earnhardt Jr. late last year in the spring race; dropped from first to eighth; five races ago, he was mired in 18th place of the standings; but three consecutive top-seven finishes including fourth in California last Sunday, enabled him to climb up to ninth, 234 points behind leader Dale Jarrett; is 99 points better than last year at this stage and there are two additional races on the schedule at Chicago and Kansas City this year.

Rusty Wallace -- The most recent driver to win both races at Richmond in the same year, doing so in 1989; started from the pole last year and finished fifth for the second straight year; also won in 1997 when he set the race speed record of 108.499 mph; won the NAPA Auto Parts 500 at California Speedway last week for his 54th career Winston Cup victory; tied for seventh with Lee Petty; the win ended a 20-race winless streak and extended his streak with at least one win to 16 years; climbed from sixth to fourth in the standings, 119 points behind Dale Jarrett.