NASCAR NXS Information Sunday, August 25, 2019

2019 NASCAR XFINITY SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS

  • Most wins this season: 6 Christopher Bell
  • Most 2nd-place finishes this season: 4 Christopher Bell
  • Most top 3 finishes this season: 14 Christopher Bell
  • Most top 5 finishes this season: 18 Tyler Reddick
  • Most top 10 finishes this season: 20 Tyler Reddick
  • Best average finish this season of drivers competing in every race: 5.0 Tyler Reddick
  • Most laps led this season: 1280 Christopher Bell
  • Most laps led by non-winner this season: 416 Justin Allgaier (4th most of all drivers)
  • Most races led this season: 20 Christopher Bell
  • Most poles this season: 5 Cole Custer
  • Most front row starts this season: 9 Christopher Bell & Cole Custer
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  • Christopher Bell: 7 Top 3 finishes last 8 races – 6 Top 2 finishes last 7 races (Finished 14th at Bristol)
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  • Austin Cindric: 4 Straight top 5 finishes – Ties career-long streak
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  • Austin Cindric: Average finish last 4 races: 2.3 – Best-ever 4-race average
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  • Tyler Reddick: 7 Straight top 5 finishes – Average finish: 3.6
  • Noah Gragson: Best Rookie finisher at Road America – Finished 4th 
  • Chase Briscoe: Finished 7th or better last 7 races – Average finish: 4.9
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  • Jeremy Clements: 3 Top 10 finishes this season – 2 Straight top 10 finishes
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  • Justin Allgaier: 7 Straight top 10 finishes – Longest streak this season (Previous longest streak this season: 2 Races)
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  • Cole Custer: Finished outside top 5 last 5 races – Average finish: 15.2
  • Dale Earnhardt Jr.:
  • 2-Time NASCAR Xfinity Series champion (1998 & ’99)
  • Best Darlington NXS finish: 2nd (9/98) – Winner: Dick Trickle (Oldest ever NXS winner – 56-Years-old)
  • Best Darlington NXS finish: 2nd (9/98) – Started 34th & pitted on backstretch
  • Finished 12th or better all 4 Darlington races – 2 Top 10 finishes
  • First Darlington NXS race since 9/4/99 – 7301 days ago (9/4/99-8/31/19)
  • 22 Darlington MENCS races – Best finish: 2nd (2014)
  • Dale Earnhardt: 9 Darlington MENCS wins – 2nd all-time (David Pearson 10)
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  • 8 Different winners in 23 races this season
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  • Christopher Bell: 20 Stage wins (Most all-time) – 13 Stage wins this season (Leads all drivers)
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  • Justin Allgaier: 4 Stage wins this season – Winless
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  • Stage 1 winner failed to win last 7 races
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  • Stage 2 winner failed to win last 5 races
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  • Race winner finished outside top 10 in Stage 1 last 4 races
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  • 1 Weekend sweep this season – Kyle Busch ISM March
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  • Christopher Bell won back-to-back races once (3 Straight wins) – 2018 Kentucky, 2018 New Hampshire & Iowa 7/18
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  • Only drivers to win back-to-back races this season:
  • Kyle Busch (Las Vegas March & ISM Raceway March) & Austin Cindric (Watkins Glen & Mid-Ohio) 
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  • 2 Won first career race this season – Michael Annett (Daytona Feb.) & Austin Cindric (Watkins Glen)
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  • 16 of 23 races this season won by drivers starting from first 2 rows – Only 2 from pole
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  • Only 2 races won by drivers starting outside top 10 this season (Last 2 races – Bristol Aug. & Road America)
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  • Tyler Reddick this season: Winless first 8 races, 3 wins next 5 races, 1 Win last 10 races
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  • Austin Cindric passed for final lead change 3 races this season including Road America
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  • Last 5 Toyota wins all by Christopher Bell
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  • Christopher Bell won races each month this season except March
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  • 1 Race won by a Rookie of the Year contender this season – Chase Briscoe at Iowa July
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  • Youngest winner: Austin Cindric – 20
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  • Oldest winner: Kyle Busch – 33
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  • 18 of 23 races this season won by drivers 20-24 years-old