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NOTES: After posting back-to-back runner-up finishes in this race, Kyle Busch claimed the top spot last season, as he defeated Tony Stewart by almost three seconds for his 15th career Sprint Cup title on his 24th birthday. Celebrating his special day in style, Busch, following a restart, made a daring four-wide pass on the outside to take the second position from Carl Edwards and then moved around Jeff Gordon to grab the lead for good with 49 laps remaining. The win highlighted a weekend sweep at Richmond as he won Friday night's Nationwide Series race. He joined Harry Gant (1991) and Kevin Harvick (2005) as those drivers to win both races on the same weekend at the three-quarter- mile track. When Clint Bowyer won in 2008, he edged out Kyle Busch by less than a second for his second career Sprint Cup title. Pole sitter Denny Hamlin dominated most of the race, leading a whopping 381 laps, however he faded to finish 24th. Bowyer led the final 13 laps to win for the first time since capturing the Dodge Avenger 500 in 2007. In 2007, Jimmie Johnson won this race for the first time, as he clipped Kyle Busch by less than a second for his fourth win of that season. Johnson, who now totals 50 Sprint Cup titles, took the checkered flag 0.724 of a second ahead of Busch. Johnson swept both races at Richmond International Raceway in 2007. It's been feast of famine for Jimmie Johnson at Richmond recently, as he has three wins and three finishes outside the top-10 in his last six starts. Dale Earnhardt Jr reclaimed the lead for the third time on lap 356 and held on the rest of the way to capture this race for the third time in his career in 2006. With the win, his 17th Sprint Cup title at the time, he joined his father as a three-time champion of this race. Earnhardt, who led the race for a total of 47 laps, edged Denny Hamlin by less than a second. Kevin Harvick led four times for a race-high 272 laps, while pole sitter Greg Biffle, who finished fourth, led for 54 laps. "King" Richard Petty was a six-time winner of this race and had 13 victories at Richmond, the most of all drivers. Petty was also an eight-time pole-winner at Richmond. In 63 races at RIR, Petty posted 34 top-5s and 41 top-10 finishes. Tony Stewart has enjoyed amazing success at Richmond International Raceway. Since he began racing at RIR in 1999 on the Sprint Cup circuit, Stewart owns three wins, four seconds and 15 top-10 finishes in 22 races. Stewart is also the last driver to win this race in back-to-back years (2001-02). Richmond International Raceway has hosted the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series since 1953. Lee Petty won the first race that year. Formerly a half-mile oval, it was redesigned in 1988 between the spring and fall races. Recent renovations have made it one of the most modern speedways on the tour. Richmond offers fans a unique blend of short-track intimacy and superspeedway-style racing. The new Commonwealth Grandstand, located in Turn 1, has 7,843 new seats, bringing the track's capacity to 112,029. It is also 180 feet high - two feet higher than the control tower at Richmond International Airport and the tallest structure in surrounding Henrico County. The track itself is wide and smooth, giving the drivers plenty of room to race. Owned and operated by Paul Sawyer and his family, Richmond International Raceway has received numerous national and local honors, including the prestigious Myers Brothers Award. A driver has won a race at RIR from the pole 21 times (most recently Jimmie Johnson in the fall race of 2007) and the deepest in the field that a race winner has started is 31st, a mark set by Clint Bowyer in 2008. The last pole sitter to win the spring race at Richmond was Kasey Kahne in 2005. The 2010 Sprint Cup Series season continues with the May 8th running of the Showtime Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. Mark Martin is the defending race winner. 04/27 15:39:59 ET