You Must First Finish To Finish First!

 

A little known NASCAR record is being re-written each race.

Week after week the pole sitter finishes the race. The pole sitter has been running at the end of the last 66 races. The last time a driver started on the pole and failed to finish the race was in 2004, at Michigan when Jimmie Johnson lost an engine after 81 laps.

The old record for the number of consecutive races in which the pole sitter did not suffer a DNF was 36 races, set back in the 1998 to 1999 seasons. During the 2002 season, the record was almost threatened, but the pole sitters fell short after 24 races. Prior to the 1998/1999 streak, the longest run was 17 races back in 1979 and 1980.

The current streak is not only the new record at 66 races, but is now only 6 races shy of doubling the old record of 36 races. more DNF's from Itpicks.com