NASCAR Information Sunday, July 21, 2019

2019 MONSTER ENERGY NASCAR CUP SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS

• Most wins this season: 4 Kyle Busch & Martin Truex Jr.
• Most 2nd-place finishes this season: 3 Alex Bowman, Kyle Busch & Joey Logano
• Most top 3 finishes this season: 10 Kyle Busch
• Most top 5 finishes this season: 11 Kyle Busch
• Most top 10 finishes this season: 17 Kyle Busch
• Best average finish this season: 7.1 Kyle Busch
• Best average finish this season of winless drivers: 13.4 Aric Almirola
• Most laps led this season: 959 Kyle Busch
• Most laps led by non-winner this season: 362 Ryan Blaney
• Most races led this season: 16 Kyle Busch
• Most lead lap finishes this season: 18 Kyle Busch
• Most poles this season: 3 William Byron, Austin Dillon & Kevin Harvick
• Most front row starts this season: 7 William Byron
• 10 Different winners in 20 races this season – 5 Won multiple races (Kyle Busch, Hamlin, Keselowski, Logano & Truex Jr.)
• Kevin Harvick: 46 Career wins (23 with Childress & 23 with Stewart-Haas) – 6 Career win streaks (Winless at Pocono)
• Kevin Harvick: 46 Career wins – 15 After turning 40-years-old
• Kevin Harvick: 46 Career – Tied with Hall of Fame driver Buck Baker
• Kevin Harvick: 3 Wins last 5 New Hampshire races (61 Total laps led in 3 wins) – 1 Win previous 31 New Hampshire races
• Kevin Harvick-Rodney Childers: 23 Cup wins together
• 7 Different winners last 7 races –
• Kyle Busch, Joey Logano, Martin Truex Jr., Alex Bowman, Justin Haley, Kurt Busch & Kevin Harvick
• First win of season for last 4 winners (2 Won first career race)
• 6 Different teams won last 6 races – Penske, Gibbs, Hendrick, Spire, Ganassi & Stewart-Haas
• 3 of last 4 winners ended winless streaks of 21 races or longer
• Martin Truex Jr. only repeat winner last 12 races (4 Wins) – 8 Others 1 win each
• Denny Hamlin best finish since March: 2nd – New Hampshire
• Erik Jones finished 3rd in 5 races this season including last 2 (Lap 140 pit road speeding penalty at New Hampshire)
• Matt DiBenedetto: 7 Top 10 finishes in 160 career races – 3 Top 10 finishes last 5 races
• Ryan Newman: 3 Straight top 10 finishes – Longest current streak
• Denny Hamlin: 8 Straight races led (Longest current streak) – 159 Laps led
• Kyle Busch only driver to win consecutive races this season – Phoenix March & Auto Club
• Brad Keselowski: 3 Wins in 20 races this season (3 Wins all last season) – Winless first 24 races last season
• Martin Truex Jr.: 4 Wins last 12 races – Winless previous 25 races
• 7 Drivers won poles this season, but are winless – Almirola, Blaney, Byron, A. Dillon, Johnson, Larson & Suarez
• 1 Win from pole last 37 races: Joey Logano – Michigan June
• No Toyota poles this season – 10 Toyota wins this season
• Kyle Busch & Joey Logano lead all with 7 Stage wins this season
• Kyle Larson: 3 Stage wins this season – Winless
• Stage 2 winner failed to win last 9 races
• Kyle Busch led most laps 6 races this season – Failed to win 3
• Kyle Busch led most laps last 2 races – Finished 2nd & 8th (Led most laps at Pocono June – Winner)
• Winner led 41 laps last 2 races – Kurt Busch (Kentucky) & Kevin Harvick (New Hampshire)
• William Byron best Chevrolet finisher at New Hampshire (Finished 12th) – First time best Chevrolet finisher
• No Chevrolet finisher in top 10 at New Hampshire – First time since Martinsville 10/17 (Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished 11th)
• Chevrolet: 4 Wins this season (4 Wins all of last season) – 3 Wins last 4 races
• Kevin Harvick: Best Ford finisher 2 races this season – Dover May & New Hampshire
• Denny Hamlin best Toyota finisher 3 races this season including New Hampshire
• New Hampshire laps led: Toyota: 235, Ford: 66, Chevrolet: 0
• Team Penske: 5 Wins this season – 1 Win in first 24 races last season
• Ryan Preece best finishing Rookie of the Year contender 8 times this season including last 2 races
• Last Rookie of the Year contender to win: Chris Buescher – Pocono 8/16
• 3 of last 5 wins by Rookie of the Year contenders came at Pocono
• Youngest winner: Justin Haley – 20
• Oldest winner: Kevin Harvick – 43
• Last 2 races won by 40-year-old Kurt Busch & 43-year-old Kevin Harvick
• 15 of 20 races this season won by drivers 33-years-old & older
• Joe Gibbs Racing won 7 of last 14 races with 3 different drivers – Truex Jr. (4), Kyle Busch (2) & Denny Hamlin (1)
• Team Penske won 3 of first 6 races this season – 2 Wins last 14 races (Kansas & Michigan)
• No Hendrick Motorsports top 10 finishers or lap leaders last 2 races
• Denny Hamlin best Joe Gibbs Racing finisher 3 races this season including New Hampshire
• All 4 Joe Gibbs Racing drivers finished 8th or better at New Hampshire – 235 of 301 Laps led (Truex Jr. only JGR driver without a lap led)
• Kevin Harvick only Stewart-Haas Racing driver in top 10 at New Hampshire
• Stewart-Haas Racing: 1 Win this season – 8 Wins at this point last season
• Ryan Blaney best Team Penske finisher 3 races this season including New Hampshire
• All 3 Team Penske drivers finished top 10 at New Hampshire
• Longest winless streaks ended this season:
• Alex Bowman (133 Races), Denny Hamlin (47 Races), Kurt Busch (30 Races) & Martin Truex Jr. (25 Races)