NASCAR Information Sunday, June 30, 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 & Joey Logano
• Most top 3 finishes this season: 9 Kyle Busch
• Most top 5 finishes this season: 10 Kyle Busch
• Most top 10 finishes this season: 15 Kyle Busch
• Most top 10 finishes of winless drivers this season: 11 Kevin Harvick
• Best average finish this season: 6.9 Kyle Busch
• Best average finish this season of winless drivers: 10.1 Kurt Busch
• Most laps led this season: 775 Brad Keselowski – 705 Laps led all of last season (275 Laps led at this point last season)
• Most laps led by non-winner this season: 429 Kevin Harvick
• Most races led this season: 13 Kyle Busch
• Most lead lap finishes this season: 15 Kyle Busch
• Most poles this season: 3 William Byron, Austin Dillon & Kevin Harvick (All 3 winless this season)
• Most front row starts this season: 7 William Byron
• 7 Different winners in 17 races this season – 5 Won multiple races (Kyle Busch, Hamlin, Keselowski, Logano & Truex Jr.)
• 6 Different winners after 17 races last season
• Alex Bowman
• Chicagoland winner – Started 8th, finished 9th in Stage 1 & 4th in Stage 2, 88 laps led (2nd-most) including final 6
• 10th in Points into Chicagoland +70 – 21st in Points -27 after Richmond April
• Kyle Larson: 8 2nd-place finishes since last win – 1348 Laps led since last win
• Jimmie Johnson best finish in last 45 races: 4th – 2019 Chicagoland
• Jimmie Johnson: 2019 Daytona Clash winner
• Chicagoland best finish of season for Alex Bowman (Winner), Kyle Larson (2nd) & Jimmie Johnson (4th)
• Kyle Busch: Finished 22nd at Chicagoland – Average running position: 17th
• Chicagoland penalties:
• Speeding: Josh Bilicki, Landon Cassill & Bubba Wallace (2)
• Removing equipment: Bubba Wallace
• Uncontrolled tire: Denny Hamlin & Daniel Hemric
• Too many crew members: Denny Hamlin
• Winless this season with wins at this point last season: Clint Bowyer, Austin Dillon & Kevin Harvick
• 2 Stewart-Haas Racing drivers had wins at this point last season, but winless this season – Clint Bowyer & Kevin Harvick
• Winless at this point last season with a win this season: Alex Bowman, Chase Elliott, Denny Hamlin & Brad Keselowski
• 2 Hendrick Motorsports drivers have wins this season, but were winless at this point last season – Alex Bowman & Chase Elliott
• 9 Different pole winners in 17 races this season
• 7 Drivers won poles this season, but are winless – Almirola, Blaney, Byron, A. Dillon, Harvick, Johnson & Larson
• Stage 1 winner went on to win only 1 of last 11 races – Joey Logano (Michigan)
• Stage 2 winner failed to win last 6 races
• Joey Logano leads all with 6 Stage wins this season
• Kevin Harvick: 4 Stage wins this season (All on 1.5-mile tracks) – Winless
• Kyle Larson: 3 Stage wins this season – Winless
• Alex Bowman: No career Stage wins – Chicagoland winner last week
• Kyle Busch only driver to win consecutive races this season – Phoenix March & Auto Club
• Martin Truex Jr. only repeat winner last 9 races (4 Wins) – 5 Others 1 win each
• Chase Elliott: 6 Career poles (2 This season) – Winless from pole
• 1 Win from pole last 34 races: Joey Logano – Michigan June
• No Toyota poles this season – 10 Toyota wins this season
• Hendrick Motorsports: 6 Poles this season – 2 Wins
• Team Penske: 5 Wins this season – 1 Win in first 24 races last season
• Stewart-Haas Racing: Winless this season – 7 Wins at this point last season
• (Deepest SHR has gone into season winless since 2011 – Won 19th race of 2011 season at New Hampshire)
• Kevin Harvick led most laps 3 races this season (Las Vegas March, Kansas May & Chicagoland) – Failed to win each race
• Kyle Larson passed for final lead change at Chicagoland – Finished 2nd
• Alex Bowman best Chevrolet finisher 3 of last 7 races
• Joey Logano best Ford finisher 9 races this season (53%)
• Erik Jones best Toyota finisher only 2 races this season – Kansas & Chicagoland
• Daniel Hemric best Rookie of the Year contender 7 of last 9 races including last 4
• Youngest winner: Chase Elliott – 23
• Oldest winners: Martin Truex Jr. & Denny Hamlin – 38
• 13 of 17 races this season won by drivers 33-years-old & older
• Chase Elliott only under-25 driver to win this season – 23-Years-old
• Closest margin-of-victory this season: .138 Seconds – Daytona 500 (Denny Hamlin over Kyle Busch)
• Alex Bowman best Hendrick Motorsports finisher 4 of last 7 races
• Erik Jones best Joe Gibbs Racing finisher 2 races this season – Kansas & Chicagoland
• Joey Logano best Team Penske finisher 11 races this season
• All 4 Hendrick Motorsports drivers finished 11th or better at Chicagoland – 3 Finished top 10
• All 3 Team Penske drivers finished top 6 at Chicagoland (Only 1 lap led)
• All 4 Stewart-Haas Racing drivers finished outside top 10 at Chicagoland – 2nd race this season (Daytona 500)
• Last time Roush Fenway Racing had multiple drivers finish top 10: Martinsville 10/17 (Bayne 6th & Stenhouse Jr. 10th)
• Last 2 first-time winners drove for Hendrick Motorsports – Chase Elliott (2018 Watkins Glen) & Alex Bowman (2019 Chicagoland)
• Corey LaJoie: Speeding penalties in 5 races this season – Most
• NASCAR XFINITY SERIES PLAYOFF STANDINGS
• Race Wins
• Stage Wins
• Playoff Pts
• 1
• Christopher Bell
• 4
• 8
• 28
• 2
• Cole Custer
• 4
• 6
• 26
• 3
• Tyler Reddick
• 3
• 3
• 18
• 4
• Michael Annett
• 1
• 0
• 5
• 5
• Austin Cindric
• +250
• 0
• 1
• 1
• 6
• Justin Allgaier
• +227
• 0
• 4
• 4
• 7
• Chase Briscoe #
• +181
• 0
• 0
• 0
• 8
• Noah Gragson #
• +178
• 0
• 1
• 1
• 9
• John Hunter Nemechek #
• +175
• 0
• 0
• 0
• 10
• Justin Haley #
• +144
• 0
• 1
• 1
• 11
• Brandon Jones
• +117
• 0
• 0
• 0
• 12
• Ryan Sieg
• +98
• 0
• 1
• 1
• 13
• Gray Gaulding
• -98
• 0
• 0
• 0
• 14
• Brandon Brown #
• -135
• 0
• 0
• 0
• 15
• Jeremy Clements
• -141
• 0
• 0
• 0
• 2019 NASCAR XFINITY SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS
• Most wins this season: 4 Christopher Bell & Cole Custer
• Most 2nd-place finishes this season: 3 Justin Allgaier & Tyler Reddick
• Most top 3 finishes this season: 8 Tyler Reddick
• Most top 5 finishes this season: 11 Tyler Reddick
• Most top 10 finishes this season: 13 Tyler Reddick
• Best average finish this season of drivers competing in every race: 5.0 Tyler Reddick
• Sam Ard: 2.9 Average finish after 15 races in 1984
• Most laps led this season: 760 Christopher Bell
• Most laps led by non-winner this season: 265 Justin Allgaier (5th most of all drivers)
• Most races led this season: 14 Christopher Bell (Streak of 17 consecutive races led ended at Chicagoland)
• Most lead lap finishes this season: 14 Michael Annett & Austin Cindric
• Most poles this season: 4 Cole Custer
• Cole Custer: 4 Wins this season – Winless first 30 races last season
• Cole Custer: 5 Wins last 18 races – 1 Win previous 68 races
• Cole Custer: 6 Straight races led (467 Laps led) – Career-long streak
• Christopher Bell: 4 Wins this season – 1 Win at this point last season (7 Wins all last season – Led all drivers)
• Christopher Bell finished outside top 10 in next race after previous 6 wins – Average finish after win: 24.3
• Tyler Reddick: Finished 15th & 9th last 2 races – First back-to-back finishes outside top 5 this season
• Justin Allgaier: Winless this season – Finished 2nd three times
• Noah Gragson: 5 Straight top 10 finishes – Career-long streak
• Noah Gragson average finish last 5 races: 4.8 – Best of drivers competing all 5 races
• Brandon Jones best finish last 13 races: 4th – Chicagoland
• John Hunter Nemechek: Finished 12th or better last 10 races – 7 Top 10 finishes
• Michael Annett: 6 Straight top 10 finishes – Longest current streak
• Michael Annett: 11 Top 10 finishes this season (6 Straight top 10 finishes) – 3 Top 10 finishes all of last season
• Austin Cindric: 8 Top 10 finishes last 9 races – Average finish: 6.8
• Richard Childress Racing: 3 Wins this season – 1 Win last season (Michigan) & winless in 2017
• Team Penske: Winless this season – 4 Wins at this point last season
• 5 Different winners in 15 races this season
• Last 9 races won by 3 of 4 Championship 4 drivers from last season –
• Bell (Bristol, Dover & Iowa), Custer (Richmond, Pocono & Chicagoland) & Reddick (Talladega, Charlotte & Michigan)
• Cole Custer never won back-to-back races
• Christopher Bell: 15 Stage wins – Most all-time
• Christopher Bell leads all with 8 Stage wins this season
• Justin Allgaier: 4 Stage wins this season – Winless
• Michael Annett won for first time in 230th career race (Daytona Feb.) – 2nd to Jeremy Clements who won in 256th career race
• 11 of 15 races this season won by drivers who started first 2 rows – Only 1 from pole (Cole Custer – Pocono)
• Worst start position of winner this season: 10th – Tyler Reddick (Michigan)
• 1 Winner from pole last 21 races – Cole Custer (Pocono June)
• Christopher Bell: Failed to finish 3 of last 4 races after starting on pole – All due to crashes
• Ford won last 4 poles
• Tyler Reddick passed for final lead change 3 races this season including final lap at Pocono (Finished 2nd)
• Cole Custer passed for final lead change 4 races this season – Passed for final lead change 3 of last 5 races (Won other 2)
• Michael Annett passed for final lead change at Chicagoland last week – Finished 4th
• 1 Race settled by last lap pass this season (Pocono) – Cole Custer passed Tyler Reddick
• Tyler Reddick passed for lead on final lap 3 times – Twice by Cole Custer (Texas 11/18 & 2019 Pocono)
• Michael Annett best Chevrolet finisher 2 races this season – Daytona Feb. & Chicagoland
• Last 5 Ford wins all by Cole Custer
• Cole Custer best Ford finisher 9 races this season
• Brandon Jones best Toyota finisher 3 races this season including 2 of last 3
• Noah Gragson best Rookie finisher 4 of last 5 races – Only races best Rookie finisher this season
• Best finish by Rookie this season: 2nd – John Hunter Nemechek (Las Vegas) & Noah Gragson (Michigan)
• Youngest winner: Cole Custer – 21
• Oldest winner: Kyle Busch – 33
• 11 of 15 races this season won by drivers 21-24 years-old
• Michael Annett best JR Motorsports finisher 3 races this season – Daytona Feb. Bristol April & Chicagoland
• Closest margin-of-victory this season: .116 Seconds – Daytona Feb. (Michael Annett over Justin Allgaier)