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Clay Millican at the U.S. Nationals. (NHRA Photo)

Key Numbers: U.S. Nationals & NASCAR Playoffs

This week’s top statistics from the motorsports industry.

1 — Zach Wigal earned his first USAC Midget National Championship victory Sunday at Wisconsin’s Angell Park Speedway.

13 — Clay Millican qualified 13th in the 16-driver field en route to winning the Top Fuel portion of the U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.

4 — Santino Ferrucci scored a pair of fourth-place finishes in NTT IndyCar Series action at The Milwaukee Mile.

68 — Tyler Thompson won the 68th running of the Oswego Classic supermodified race at New York’s Oswego Speedway.

2 — Robert Ballou swept a pair of Midwest Thunder non-winged sprint car features over the weekend.

47 — Number of the car Sammy Swindell drove to victory in United Sprint Car Series action at Alabama’s Buckshot Speedway.

7 — Peyton Sellers secured his seventh South Boston Speedway late model stock car championship.

2 — Hank Davis earned his first two ASCS National Tour victories driving Wayne Johnson’s No. 2c sprint car.

1,054 — Record number of entries for the 42nd annual IMCA Super Nationals at Boone Speedway. Catch all the action on IMCA.tv.

1993 — With Santino Ferrucci’s 10th top-10 finish of the season in Sunday’s NTT IndyCar Series race at the Milwaukee Mile, it’s the most top 10s a driver has scored for A.J. Foyt Racing since Robby Gordon in 1993 (10).

2 — Drivers who have won an IndyCar race and reached the semifinals of the NHRA U.S. Nationals (Danny Ongais, Tony Stewart). Stewart lost in Monday’s Top Fuel semifinals to Steve Torrence. 

142 — Scott Dixon scored his 142nd podium in Saturday’s IndyCar race at Milwaukee, breaking a tie with Mario Andretti for the most series history. He finished second to Pato O’Ward.

6 — Positions Franco Colapinto gained in his maiden Formula 1 race in Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix. He finished 12th for Williams Racing.

1 — Tyler Reddick won the NASCAR Cup Series regular-season championship by one point over Kyle Larson. 

14 — Chase Briscoe, driver of the No. 14 for Stewart-Haas Racing, was the 14th different Cup Series winner this season with his victory in the Cook Out Southern 500. 

3 — Pato O’Ward won his third NTT IndyCar Series race of the season Saturday at the Milwaukee Mile. 

40 — Kyle Larson enters the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs with 40 playoff points — the most among all drivers. 

10 — With three races remaining in the NASCAR Xfinity Series regular season, Sammy Smith holds the final playoff position by 10 points over Ryan Sieg.