10 things you need to know about Texas Motor Speedway

The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series heads to Texas Motor Speedway this weekend for the running of the O’Reilly Auto Parts 500. Live television coverage on FOX begins at 1 p.m. ET on Sunday.

Here are 10 things you need to know about Texas Motor Speedway.

This will be the 33^rd Cup race at TMS. From 1997-2004, the track hosted one race annually. Since 2005, it’s had two races per year. Jeff Burton won the inaugural race here in ’97.

This will be the first race at TMS since it was reconfigured and repaved. The banking in Turns 1 and 2 has been reduced from 24 to 20 degrees and the racing groove has been widened in those turns from 60 feet to 80 feet. No one has tested or practiced here yet.

Team owners Rick Hendrick and Jack Roush each have won eight races at TMS. That means between the two of them, they’ve won exactly half of the 32 Cup races run here to date. Joe Gibbs has won six races here, including both events last season.

Matt Kenseth leads all drivers in lead-lap finishes (24) and laps completed (9,283) at TMS.

The youngest Cup winner at TMS is Joey Logano, who was 23 years, 10 months and 14 days old when he won here in 2014. The oldest winner was Dale Jarrett, who was 44 years, 4 months and 6 days when he won in 2001.

In the 12 years that TMS has hosted two races annually, there have been three sweeps: Carl Edwards in 2008, Denny Hamlin in 2010 and Jimmie Johnson in 2015.

Joe Gibbs Racing driver Kyle Busch is the defending winner of the spring Texas race, and he is also the last driver to win from the pole here, something he did in 2013.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. won both his first Cup race at Texas as a rookie in 2000 and his first NASCAR XFINITY Series race here in 1998.

Not surprisingly, seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson leads all drivers at TMS with six race victories. Johnson also leads in top fives with 14 and top 10s with 20.

Texas is the only 1.5-mile NASCAR track where the qualifying record is over 200 miles per hour. Tony Stewart set the mark  on Halloween Day in 2014, when he ran 200.111 mph in the second round of qualifying. Stewart did not win the pole as Matt Kenseth had the fastest lap in the third and final qualifying round.