Curious Records from the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Season

Current Streaks
Kevin Harvick extended his current streak of running at the finish to 80 races.

That is the all-time record for consecutive races without a DNF.

Harvick’s Richard Childress Racing teammate, Clint Bowyer, is second on the list, currently on a 73-race streak of running at the finish.

Note: Herman Beam completed 84 consecutive races that he competed in (1961-63), but he did not race in all of the scheduled events during his personal streak. His longest consecutive-race streak was 35 races.


International Flare Grows
Five foreign-born drivers participated at Infineon Raceway:

• Marcos Ambrose (Australia)
• Patrick Carpentier (Canada)
• Ron Fellows (Canada)
• Juan Pablo Montoya (Colombia)
• Max Papis (Italy).

This was the largest contingent of foreign-born drivers in a race in NASCAR Sprint Cup history.

This eclipsed the previous mark of three which was set eight times – most recently at Infineon in 2007.


Sounding More Like An Olympic Venue!
At Watkins Glen, three nations were represented among the top five for the first time in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series history.

1. Kyle Busch (United States)
2. Tony Stewart (United States)
3. Marcos Ambrose (Australia)
4. Juan Pablo Montoya (Colombia)
5. Martin Truex Jr. (United States)

Lap Leaders in a Race
The 28 different drivers that led at Talladega-2 set the all-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series record for different lap leaders in a race.

It eclipsed the mark of 26 set at Talladega in July 1986 and tied in April 2001, also at Talladega.