NASCAR Information Sunday, June 18, 2017

2017 MONSTER ENERGY NASCAR CUP SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS

• Most wins this season: 3 Jimmie Johnson
• Most 2nd-place finishes this season: 5 Kyle Larson (2 Wins)
• Most top 3 finishes this season: 7 Kyle Larson
• Most top 5 finishes this season: 8 Brad Keselowski
• Most top 10 finishes this season: 11 Martin Truex Jr.
• Best average finish: 7.9 Kyle Larson
• Most poles this season: 3 Kevin Harvick (Winless) – Failed to win last 10 races after starting first
• Best average start this season: 7.1 Brad Keselowski
• Most laps led this season: 938 Martin Truex Jr.
• Most laps led by winless drivers this season: 743 Kyle Busch (2nd most laps led this season)
• Kyle Busch: 7 Straight races led – 330 Laps led
• 10 Different winners in 15 races this season
• Playoff era record for different winners before start of Playoff: 15 (2011)
• Kyle Larson: Finished 7th or better last 3 races – 2 Top 2 finishes
• Chase Elliott: 3 Straight top 10 finishes – 2 Top 5 finishes last 3 races
• Joey Logano: 1 Top 20 finish last 6 races – Finished 3rd at Michigan
• Denny Hamlin: Best finish last 6 races: 4th – Michigan
• Jamie McMurray: 2 Top 5 finishes last 6 races
• Martin Truex Jr.: Finished 6th or better last 5 races – 3 Top 3 finishes
• Kyle Busch: 5 Top 10 finishes last 6 races
• Ricky Stenhouse Jr.: 1 Top 10 finish last 5 races – Finished 8th at Michigan
• Dale Earnhardt Jr.: Best finish last 8 races: 9th – Michigan
• 7 Different winners from 7 different teams in last 7 races this season – Longest streak of different winners this season
• 3 Won first career race this season – Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Talladega, Austin Dillon Charlotte & Ryan Blaney Pocono
• 5 Winners this season were winless after 15 races last season –
• Blaney, A. Dillon, Larson, Newman & Stenhouse Jr.
• Kyle Busch, Hamlin, Harvick & Kenseth winless this season – Winners after 15 races last season
• Kyle Busch: 3 Wins after 15 races last season (Led all drivers) – Winless this season
• 14 Won since Kyle Busch’s last win (2016 Indianapolis) – 31-Race winless streak
• Jimmie Johnson only repeat winner last 10 races (3 Wins) – 7 Others 1 win each
• Martin Truex Jr. first driver to sweep every Stage in Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race – 2017 Las Vegas
• Stage 1 winner went on to win race twice – Martin Truex Jr. Las Vegas & Kyle Larson Auto Club
• Stage 2 winner went on to win race only once – Martin Truex Jr. Las Vegas
• Jimmie Johnson: 3 Wins this season – No in-race Stage wins (15 Playoff points – 2nd)
• Ryan Blaney first to win race without finishing top 10 in Stages during race – Pocono June
• Kyle Busch: 4 Stage wins this season (All Stage 1) – Won Stage 1 in 3 of last 5 races (Winless this season)
• 5 Won Stage 1 & Stage 2 – Only 1 went on to win race (Martin Truex Jr. Las Vegas)
• 10 Drivers won Stages this season –
• 5 Have yet to win a race (Kyle Busch, Elliott, Hamlin, Harvick & Kenseth)
• Martin Truex Jr. leads all with 10 Stage wins (20 Playoff points – Leader) –
• 2 Race wins (Las Vegas & Kansas May)
• 3 Wins from pole this season: Kyle Larson Auto Club & Michigan June and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Talladega May
• Jimmie Johnson: Last 5 top 5 finishes were all wins
• Jimmie Johnson: 5 Wins starting rear of field – 3 of last 4 wins came starting rear of field
• Jimmie Johnson started rear of field 4 races this season – Most of all drivers
• Best finisher dropping to rear of field this season:
• Winner – Jimmie Johnson (Texas April & Dover June) & Joey Logano (Richmond April)
• 2 Won after pit road speeding penalty this season: Kurt Busch Daytona 500 & Brad Keselowski Martinsville April
• Kyle Busch winless this season – Led with 10 to go in 3 races (Phoenix March, Talladega May & Pocono June)
• First career win for 3 of last 6 race winners – Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (Talladega), Austin Dillon (Charlotte) & Ryan Blaney (Pocono)
• Last 8 Hendrick Motorsports wins all by Jimmie Johnson
• Kyle Busch passed for final lead change 5 of last 12 races including last 2
• Jimmie Johnson led 18 or fewer laps 3 of last 4 wins
• Kyle Larson led most laps 2 of last 3 races – 1 Win (Michigan June)
• Final lead change with 10 or fewer laps to go 9 of 15 races this season
• Leader of most laps won only 4 of 15 races this season
• Joe Gibbs Racing driver led most laps 5 of last 12 races – Winless
• Kyle Busch failed to win last 5 races after he led most laps –
• Bristol 8/16, Phoenix March, Martinsville April, Talladega May & Pocono June
• 4 Winners this season have led a total of 74 laps – Newman 37, Stenhouse Jr. 22, A. Dillon 9 & Kurt Busch 6
• 10 To go leader failed to win 8 races this season – 3 of last 5 times Kyle Busch was leading with 10 to go
• Kyle Larson best Chevrolet finisher 6 times this season
• Joey Logano best Ford finisher at Michigan (3rd) – First time best Ford finisher since Richmond April win
• Denny Hamlin best Toyota finisher at Michigan (4th) – Best Toyota finisher only 2nd time this season
• Ford: 6 Wins in 15 races this season – 8 Wins all of last season (Only 3 wins at this point last season)
• Toyota: Only 2 wins this season – Las Vegas & Kansas May (Martin Truex Jr.) – 8 Wins after 15 races last season
• Joe Gibbs Racing: Winless this season – 7 Wins after 15 races last season
• Erik Jones best Rookie finisher 3 of last 4 races
• 8 Different teams won this season – Joe Gibbs Racing winless
• Joe Gibbs Racing winless first 15 races this season – First time since 2007 (Winless first 16 races)
• Last to win consecutive races: Jimmie Johnson (Texas 4/17 & Bristol 4/17)
• Ryan Newman (Richard Childress Racing) & Austin Dillon (Richard Childress Racing) won races from 22nd starting position
• Kyle Larson passed for final lead change 4 races this season
• Kyle Larson: In last 6 2nd-place finishes, Jimmie Johnson won 3 times
• Ryan Newman best Richard Childress Racing finisher 2 of last 3 races
• Denny Hamlin best Joe Gibbs Racing finisher at Michigan – First time best JGR finisher last 6 races
• Chase Elliott best Hendrick Motorsports finisher last 2 races
• No Stewart-Haas Racing finisher in top 10 at Michigan – Only time this season (Last time: Martinsville 10/16)
• Ryan Newman ended 127-race winless streak this season (Phoenix March)
• Ricky Stenhouse Jr. ended 157-race winless streak this season (Talladega May)
• Austin Dillon ended 132-race winless streak this season (Charlotte May)
• Last winner in backup car: Kurt Busch – Michigan 6/15
• Last winner after free-pass: Martin Truex Jr. – 2016 Chicagoland
• 2 Races settled by last lap pass this season – Daytona 500 & Talladega May
• Jimmie Johnson best Chevrolet finisher only 3 times this season – All 3 wins
• Last Rookie of the Year contender to win: Chris Buescher – Pocono 8/16
• 4 Overtime races this season – Phoenix March, Auto Club, Talladega May & Dover June
• Youngest winner: Ryan Blaney – 23
• Oldest winner: Jimmie Johnson – 41
• 9 Wins this season by drivers 33-years-old or older
• Closest margin-of-victory this season: .095 Seconds – Talladega May (Ricky Stenhouse Jr. over Jamie McMurray)
• Roush Fenway Racing ended 101-race winless streak at Talladega May
• Richard Childress Racing ended 112-race winless streak at Phoenix March