NASCAR BY THE NUMBERS
49 – Cup series victories by Jimmie Johnson in 294 career starts. The El Cajon, Calif., native is as dominant a driver as his sport has by winning precisely one out of every six races he enters. Four of those wins have come at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (2005-2007, 2010).
219 – Laps led by Johnson’s Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon — out of the first 250 — before Johnson passed him and took the lead for good on lap 252.
483 – Total number of laps Gordon has led in 13 Cup races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, becoming the track’s all-time leader.
$405,628 – First-place prize money, out of a total purse of $6.3 million, awarded to Johnson for winning Sunday’s Shelby American.
15 – Record number of victories Johnson has on speedways of 1½-mile distances, breaking a tie with Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Gordon.
2 – Number of cautions caused Sunday by yellow light malfunctions out of a total of seven.
32 – Number of places Kevin Harvick improved, the best of any driver Sunday, in starting 34th and finishing second.
2:49:53 – Time of Sunday’s race, the second-fastest of 12 Cup events at Las Vegas Motor Speedway that went the distance. The fastest race was the inaugural event in 1998, which took 2 hours, 43 minutes and 58 seconds.
3:27.012 – Shortest aggregate time, in minutes, set by driver Martin Truex Jr., spent pitting during Sunday’s race.
1 – Number of drivers running at the finish of all 13 Cup races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Jeff Burton placed 11th Sunday to keep his streak intact.
21 – Number of cars that finished on the lead lap, one short of half of the 43-card field.
141.45 – Jimmie Johnson’s average winning speed in miles per hour.
23 – Number of pit road penalties assessed, including one by Las Vegas native Kyle Busch for speeding.
16 – Finishing position of Dale Earnhardt Jr., who placed second at Daytona in the Cup series’ first race of the season and then was 32nd in Fontana, Calif., last week.