10/12/2022

RFK Weekly Advance | Las Vegas

The NASCAR Cup Series schedule heads west to Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the second time this season. Jack Roush has seven wins all-time there in the Cup Series, third-most among 1.5-mile tracks, with 16 wins overall in Vegas.

NASCAR Cup Series Race at Las Vegas

Sunday, Oct. 16 | 2:30 p.m. ET

NBC, PRN, SiriusXM Channel 90

• Brad Keselowski, No. 6 King’s Hawaiian Ford Mustang
• Chris Buescher, No. 17 Castrol Ford Mustang

Early JACKpot

RFK hit the Vegas jackpot right off the bat, winning the inaugural Cup event at Las Vegas in 1998. Mark Martin led 82 laps in the victory that served as a banner day for RFK.

Inaugural Sweep

RFK placed all five of its Cup entries inside the top 10 of that inaugural Las Vegas Cup race in 1998, including three inside the top five, four inside the top six, one in the winners circle and the runner up  (6 – 1st, 99 – 2nd, 26 – 4th, 16 – 6th and 97 – 10th).

Continued Success

RFK won the first three Cup races at LVMS from ‘98-’00, with Jeff Burton winning back-to-back events in ’99 and ’00. RFK also took three of the first nine Xfinity Series events at LVMS.

Victory Lane at Vegas

In addition to the first three Cup races at LVMS, RFK again found the winners’ circle in 2003 and 2004 at the 1.5-mile track with Matt Kenseth. Carl Edwards took the checkered flag at the 2008 and 2011 events to give RFK seven Cup wins at Las Vegas with four different drivers.

Back to Back at Vegas

RFK has won back-to-back Cup races at LVMS on two separate occasions in ’99-’00 and ’03-04’ and once in the Xfinity Series in ‘99 and ‘00.

Across the Board at Vegas

All in all, RFK has tallied 16 total NASCAR wins, while turning 39,000+ laps in NASCAR action at LVMS for 58,000+ miles, while leading over 2,600 laps at the track in NASCAR’s top three divisions. At the same time the organization has finished inside the top 10 in 48 percent of its 184 NASCAR starts at LVMS.

RFK Las Vegas Wins

1998      Martin  Cup

1999      Burton  Cup

2000      Burton  Cup

2003      Kenseth Cup

2004      Kenseth Cup

2008      Edwards Cup

2011      Edwards Cup

1999      Martin  NXS

2000      Burton  NXS

2002      Burton  NXS

2005      Martin  NXS

2009      Biffle     NXS

2012      Stenhouse NXS

1997      Ruttman  NCWTS

1999      Biffle        NCWTS

2007      Kvapil       NCWTS

By the Numbers at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Race      Win       T5          T10     Pole       Laps       Led        AvSt      AvFn     Miles

100        7             21          41               1             24954   1275        18.0            15.3               37431

57          6             19          37               7             10683   1179        11.4            12.1               16024.5

27          3             7             11               1             3660      234        10.3          15.9               5490

184        16          47          89               9             39297   2685      14.7            14.3       58945.5

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