Statistics
- There were 19 different race winners, a new record for the series.
- Five of the race winners won a Cup race for the first time: Michael Waltrip, Kevin Harvick, Elliott Sadler, Ricky Craven, and Robby Gordon.
- Mark Martin finished a season without a race win for the first time since 1996, and for the second time since 1989.
- Bill Elliott won in the series for the first time since 1994, Sterling Marlin for the first time since 1996, and Ricky Rudd for the first time since 1998.
- Jeff Gordon won his fourth Championship, a feat that only two other drivers (Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt) had accomplished at the time.
- No rookies competed in all 36 races this year; the closest were Kevin Harvick, Kurt Busch, and Casey Atwood with 35. Harvick did not enter the Daytona 500, Atwood did not qualify for the spring Atlanta race, and Busch failed to qualify for the fall race in Atlanta.
- This was supposed to be the last season finale to be held at Atlanta. However, due to the attacks on September 11, the fall race in New Hampshire was postponed until the first available date, which came after the Atlanta event.
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