OK, break time is over. Let's do a headcount.

Chase, you in? Denny, you back there? Kyle and Kyle? Austin and Austin?

Good, let's roll ...

Any long road trip, especially one running from February to November, deserves a stop to stretch the legs. But this was a two-week break for NASCAR, which again took the extended break during a Summer Olympics year to avoid conflicting with NBC's broadcast plans.

Now they're back to the grind, with just four races remaining in the regular season and many racers either hanging tightly to playoff berths or hoping for a win to secure one.

The battle resumes in an area with many historic battlefields: Richmond.

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Richmond Raceway is technically a short track, but it races more like a 'tweener, with decent banking and elbow room allowing for good speeds and occasionally great racing.

∎ Richmond’s first “big league” race involved Indy cars in 1946. It was won by Ted Horn, who would win the first of his three straight series championships that year. Late in his third championship season, he was killed in a crash at Du Quoin in Illinois.

∎ Richmond Raceway has undergone two major facelifts. The first, in 1968, covered the half-mile dirt track in asphalt. The second, 20 years later, was a total re-do that stretched that asphalt to three-quarters of a mile.

∎ The speedway is owned by NASCAR. The D-shaped oval features turns banked at 14 degrees. Seating capacity is listed at 51,000.

∎ Lee Petty won the first Cup Series race there, in 1953. He’d win another Richmond race seven years later, but was still quite a ways short of son Richard, who has the all-time Richmond wins record with 13.

∎ Dick Rathmann and Buck Baker, both a lap down, finished second and third to Lee Petty in that inaugural NASCAR race in 1953. In fourth, the first car two laps down, was the No. 78 Oldsmobile driven by an Indianapolis mechanic named Dick Passwater. Just two weeks earlier, Passwater got his only NASCAR win in just 20 career starts before returning full-time to his shop north of downtown Indy in Broad Ripple.

∎ The Richmond track is just east of I-95, just north of downtown Richmond. The industrial area to the track’s immediate east is a variety of companies, including Sweetie Boy Transportation, which will get your car from here to there, wherever “there” may be. Their recruiting slogan for would-be drivers: “Are you bad-ass enough to drive for Sweetie Boy?”

∎ Richmond was host to three NASCAR Convertible Series races from 1957-59. They were won by Glen Wood, Joe Weatherly and Joe Lee Johnson. Richard Petty might’ve had 13 overall wins at Richmond, but he was 11th, of 18 starters, in his lone convertible race there, in 1959. He finished one spot behind Neil “Soapy” Castles.

∎ The IndyCar Series ran at Richmond from 2001-09.

∎ The Richmond Raceway calendar is a busy one, with many events throughout the year. Among the calendar entries for the rest of this year is the Virginia ComiCon and Megadeath in September, and an invasion of weiner dogs in October known as Dachtoberfest.

This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: NASCAR returns: Richmond awaits as Olympic break ends