Talladega Notes & Facts - Sunday

There have been 90 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at Talladega Superspeedway' one NSCS event in 1969 and two races per year since 1970.
Talladega Superspeedway is tied with Michigan International Speedway for holding the ninth most NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points paying races (90).
The deepest in the field that a race winner has started at Talladega was 36th' by Jeff Gordon in the spring of 2000.
Buddy Baker and Tony Stewart are tied for the series' most runner-up finishes at Talladega with six each.
There have been seven NSCS races resulting with a green-white-checkered finish at Talladega Superspeedway: spring of 2005 (188/194)' fall of 2005 (188/190)' spring of 2007 (188/192)' fall of 2008 (188/190) spring of 2010 (188/200)' fall of 2012 (188/189) and spring of 2013 (188/192).
Only two of the 90 races at Talladega Superspeedway have been shortened due to weather conditions: spring of 1987 and fall of 1996.
Since the advent of electronic scoring the closest margin of victory in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Talladega Superspeedway was the (04/17/2011) race won by Jimmie Johnson with a MOV of 0.002 second – the MOV is tied with the 2003 Darlington race as the closest finishes in the NSCS using electronic scoring. NASCAR PR