NASCAR Information Sunday, June 3, 2018

2018 MONSTER ENERGY NASCAR CUP SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS

• Most wins this season: 5 Kevin Harvick – 5 Wins ties career-high (2006 & ’14)
• Most 2nd-place finishes this season: 3 Kyle Busch & Kyle Larson (Winless)
• Most top 3 finishes this season: 9 Kyle Busch
• Most top 5 finishes this season: 10 Kevin Harvick
• Most top 10 finishes this season: 11 Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick & Joey Logano
• Best average finish this season: 7.6 Kyle Busch
• Most laps led this season: 909 Kevin Harvick (850 Laps led all last season)
• Most laps led by non-winner this season: 429 Ryan Blaney (3rd most behind Kevin Harvick 909 & Kyle Busch 888)
• Most races led this season: 10 Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin & Joey Logano
• Most lead lap finishes this season: 12 Kyle Busch & Joey Logano
• Most poles this season: 3 Kyle Busch & Martin Truex Jr.
• Most front-row starts this season: 6 Kevin Harvick
• Most top 6 starts this season: 9 Martin Truex Jr.
• Most top 12 starts this season: 12 Kurt Busch, Kevin Harvick & Joey Logano
• Best average start this season: 7.9 Kyle Busch & Joey Logano
• 6 Different winners in 14 races this season –
• Kevin Harvick (5), Kyle Busch (4) & Martin Truex Jr. (2) only drivers to win more than once
• Kevin Harvick leads all with 7 Stage wins this season (6 Stage wins all of last season) – Drove for the Cycle twice
• Kevin Harvick: 12,000 career laps led
• Brad Keselowski: 12 Career Stage wins – Went on to win only once after winning a Stage (Talladega 10/17)
• Martin Truex Jr. 19 Stage wins last season (Most) – 3 Stage wins this season (8 at this point last season)
• Joey Logano: 2 Stage wins this season – Only 1 Stage win all of last season
• Kyle Busch: Finished 3rd at Pocono – Only Joe Gibbs Racing driver in top 20
• 6 Races won Driving for the Cycle – Martin Truex Jr. 3, Kevin Harvick 2 & Kyle Busch 1
• 2 Won Driving for the Cycle after starting on pole – Martin Truex Jr. (Auto Club 3/18) & Kyle Busch (Charlotte 5/18)
• 2 Won Stage 1 & 2 this season, but didn’t win race – Brad Keselowski (Bristol April) & Joey Logano (Richmond April)
• 3 Win streaks this season – Kevin Harvick 3 straight, Kyle Busch 3 straight & Kevin Harvick 2 straight
• 4 Winners from pole this season:
• Martin Truex Jr. Auto Club, Kyle Busch Bristol April, Kevin Harvick Kansas May & Kyle Busch Charlotte May
• Kevin Harvick started 3rd or better 4 of 5 wins this season
• Kyle Busch passed for final lead change 4 races this season
• Kyle Larson failed to win last 3 races after leading most laps – Twice this season (Bristol April & Kansas May)
• Kyle Larson best Chevrolet finisher 6 races this season
• Kevin Harvick best Ford finisher 3 of last 4 races
• Martin Truex Jr. best Toyota finisher only 3 races this season – 2 Wins
• Furniture Row best Toyota only 3 times this season – Joe Gibbs Racing best Toyota 11 of 14 races
• Last time Hendrick went this many races into a season without a win: 1992 (Won 23rd race at Dover 9/20/92)
• *First 1993 win came in 14th race at Michigan June 20 (Ricky Rudd)
• Jimmie Johnson first time ever winless this many races since start of season
• Roush best Ford only once this season
• Chevrolet: Only 1 win in last 24 races – 2018 Daytona 500 (Austin Dillon)
• Ford: 7 Wins this season – 10 Wins all of last season
• Toyota: 6 Wins this season – 2 at this point last season (Finished 2017 with 16 wins)
• Stewart-Haas Racing won 6 of 14 races this season – 3 Wins all of last season (Ties season-high – 2011, ’14, ’16 & ‘18)
• 9 of last 11 Joe Gibbs Racing wins by Kyle Busch
• Jimmie Johnson best Hendrick Motorsports finisher 3 of last 4 races
• Brad Keselowski best Team Penske finisher 3 of last 4 races
• No Hendrick Motorsports driver finished top 10 in 2 races this season – Las Vegas March & Kansas May
• Last 8 Joe Gibbs Racing wins: Kyle Busch 7 & Matt Kenseth 1 (Denny Hamlin 0)
• 5 Different teams finished top 5 at Pocono – Furniture Row, Ganassi, Gibbs, Stewart-Haas & Team Penske
• 1 Winner started rear of field this season – Austin Dillon (Daytona 500)
• Clint Bowyer ended career-longest 190-race winless streak at Martinsville March
• Closest margin-of-victory this season: .127 Seconds – Talladega April (Joey Logano over Kurt Busch)
• 1 Race settled by last lap pass this season – Daytona 500
• 2 Overtime races this season – Daytona 500 & Richmond April
• Youngest winners: Austin Dillon – 27Y, 9M, 22D & Joey Logano – 27Y, 11M, 5D
• Oldest winner: Kevin Harvick – 42

2018 NASCAR XFINITY SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS

• Most wins this season: 2 Brad Keselowski
• Most 2nd-place finishes this season: 3 Justin Allgaier
• Most top 3 finishes this season: 6 Justin Allgaier (4 Finishes of 31st or worse – Failed to finish 4 races including last 2)
• Most top 5 finishes this season: 9 Elliott Sadler (Winless)
• Most top 10 finishes this season: 12 Elliott Sadler (Every race)
• Most laps led this season: 276 Justin Allgaier
• Most laps led by non-winner this season: 160 Daniel Hemric
• Most races led this season: 8 Christopher Bell
• Most lead lap finishes this season: 11 Cole Custer & Elliott Sadler
• Most poles this season: 3 Christopher Bell & Cole Custer
• 11 Different winners in 12 races this season
• 8 Different winners in last 8 races
• Brad Keselowski only repeat winner last 15 races (2 Wins) – 13 Others 1 win each
• 7 Different pole winners in 12 races this season – Christopher Bell & Cole Custer lead all with 3 pole wins
• Brad Keselowski: 2 Wins this season – No Stage wins
• Kyle Busch: 1 Win this season (Pocono) – 4 Stage wins (Leads all drivers)
• Elliott Sadler: Winless this season – 3 Stage wins (2nd most)
• 2 Won Stages 1, 2 & race this season – Kevin Harvick (Atlanta) & Joey Logano (Auto Club)
• 1 NXS & MENCS weekend sweep this season – Kevin Harvick (Atlanta)
• Daniel Hemric best full-time NXS finisher at Pocono (3rd) – 2nd time best NXS finisher (Richmond 9/17)
• 2 Wins from pole this season (#22 Both races) – Ryan Blaney (Texas April) & Brad Keselowski (Charlotte May)
• All winners started 9th or better this season – 6 From front-row
• Brad Keselowski won last 3 races he competed
• #22 Best Ford finisher 7 of last 10 races
• #18 Best Toyota finisher 5 races this season
• Austin Cindric best Ford finisher 3 of last 5 races
• 2 Rookie of the Year contenders won this season – Tyler Reddick (Daytona Feb.) & Christopher Bell (Richmond April)
• Christopher Bell best Rookie of the Year contender 7 of last 11 races
• Austin Cindric best Rookie finisher at Pocono (4th) – First time best Rookie finisher
• 4 Different teams won last 4 races – GMS, JR Motorsports, Penske & Gibbs
• 1 Won first career race this season – Spencer Gallagher (Talladega)
• Daytona 2/17/18 – Closest margin-of-victory ever .0004 (Tyler Reddick over Elliott Sadler)
• 1 Race settled by last lap pass this season (Talladega) – Spencer Gallagher passed Tyler Reddick
• 3 Overtime races this season – Daytona Feb., Talladega & Charlotte May
• *Daytona 2/17/18 – 5 Overtimes
• Youngest winner: Tyler Reddick – 22
• Oldest winner: Kevin Harvick – 42