Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma tied track record
Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma (Cali.) Raceway tied the track record for most lead changes in a NASCAR race.
Sunday’s race featured 13 lead changes, which ties a track record set by the 2017 Toyota/SaveMart 350. The 2017 race also had 10 different leaders, which is also a track record.
Sunday’s race was 90 laps long, shorter than the 110-lap distance run in 2017. The 2017 race was run on the 1.99-mile layout ran by NASCAR from 1998-2018 while Sunday’s race was run on the longer, 2.53-mile “carousel” layout previously run from 1989-1997 and 2019.
Kyle Larson won Sunday’s Toyota/SaveMart 350 while Kevin Harvick won the 2017 race.
SOURCES:
NASCAR
Racing-Reference.Info
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