Roush Fenway Racing Fast Facts
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Sep 04, 2007
* David Ragan competed at Richmond International Raceway in the spring of 2007 starting 29th and finishing 20th.
* Ragan has also competed in the Kroger 200 at Richmond, a Craftsman Truck Series race, back in September of 2004. He started 35th and finished 35th after being involved in a wreck.
* Ragan is currently ranked 22nd in the NEXTEL Cup Series Championship point standings. He is 2nd in the Raybestos Rookie of the Year Race trailing Juan Pablo Montoya by 23 points.
* In the spring race at Richmond International Raceway, Greg Biffle ran in the top 10 for the majority of the race until contact with Jeff Green on lap 355 sent him into the outside wall. He was able to complete the race on the lead lap for a 19th place finish.
* Biffle has five top-five and eight top-10 finishes in 12 NASCAR Busch Series starts at Richmond International Raceway.
* Biffle finished 17th last week at California and currently sits 15th in the point standings, 335 points out of the top 12.
* This weekend Biffle will run the red and black Dish Network paint scheme.
* Matt Kenseth has scored nine top-10 finishes at Richmond International Raceway in 15 races, which ranks second behind Tony Stewart among all drivers at Richmond since Kenseth’s rookie season in the NEXTEL Cup Series (2000).
* Kenseth has scored 10 straight top-10 finishes in the Busch Series at Richmond and has 13 total top-10 finishes in 14 Busch Series starts at the .75-mile Virginia oval, including three straight top-three finishes.
* Richmond is the only track where Kenseth has scored 10 top-five finishes during his career in the Busch Series.
* With a seventh-place finish at California, Kenseth has now scored at least 16 top-10 finishes in the past six seasons; the most was 25 in the 2003 championship season.
* Richmond International Raceway is one of 10 NEXTEL Cup tracks (including North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham) that Kenseth has scored a Cup victory.
* Jamie McMurray has recorded nine starts at Richmond International Raceway with two finishes in the top 10.
* McMurray will pilot the No. 26 Crown Royal Ford Fusion in this weekend’s NEXTEL Cup race, and the No. 26 Aflac Ford Fusion in Friday night’s Busch Series race.
* McMurray’s average finish at RIR is a 24.8, which marks his second worst track on the NEXTEL Cup circuit next to Daytona, where McMurray scored his second career win in July.
* Richmond is one of only six tracks where McMurray has yet to lead a lap – the others are Atlanta, Homestead, Las Vegas, Phoenix and Pocono.
* 2007 Season Recap: McMurray has recorded one NEXTEL Cup win, three top fives, seven top 10’s and one Cup pole.
* Carl Edwards enters Richmond fourth in NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series point standing with 3330 points, 349 points behind the leader Jeff Gordon.
* Edwards and the No. 99 Office Depot team are mathematically locked into the ‘Chase’
* Edwards will make his seventh Cup start at Richmond this weekend. In his previous starts, Edwards has achieved two top-10 finishes
* The No. 99 Office Depot team will be unloading chassis No. RK-505, a brand new car
* Office Depot Store No. 2197 from Bonney Lake, Wash. is this week’s sales winner and will ride along on the No. 99 at Richmond this weekend
