Sunday’s Good Sam Club 500 could produce at least two milestones – especially if the race follows the form of April’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event at Talladega Superspeedway in which Hendrick Motorsports and Richard Childress Racing swept each of the top-five finishing positions.
• Hendrick Motorsports and Richard Childress Racing are vying to break the deadlock atop the all-time owner wins list at Talladega (11). Either Hendrick or RCR has won the most recent three Talladega races.
• Hendrick Motorsports continues its bid for a 200th series victory.
• Richard Childress Racing can score its 100th series victory.
Jimmie Johnson scored his second Talladega victory in the spring, besting RCR’s Clint Bowyer by a miniscule 0.002 seconds.
Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr. flashed across the stripe in third and fourth, chased home by RCR’s Kevin Harvick. Bowyer, who failed to qualify for this year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, is the defending winner of the Good Sam Club 500. Gordon (six Talladega wins), Earnhardt (five) and Harvick (one) all have visited Victory Lane at the Alabama track. Harvick also boasts this resilient Talladega statistic: Zero DNFs (did not finish) in 21 starts.
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