NASCAR Information Sunday, May 12, 2019

NASCAR Information Sunday, May 12, 2019

2019 MONSTER ENERGY NASCAR CUP SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS

• Most wins this season: 3 Kyle Busch & Brad Keselowski
• Most 2nd-place finishes this season: 3 Alex Bowman (Winless)
• Most top 3 finishes this season: 6 Kyle Busch
• Most top 5 finishes this season: 6 Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin & Joey Logano (None finished top 5 at Kansas)
• Most top 10 finishes this season: 11 Kyle Busch
• Best average finish this season: 7.1 Kyle Busch
• Best average finish this season of winless drivers: 8.8 Kurt Busch
• Most laps led this season: 689 Brad Keselowski – 705 Laps led all of last season (247 Laps led at this point last season)
• Most laps led by non-winner this season: 357 Ryan Blaney
• Most races led this season: 10 Kyle Busch (No laps led Atlanta & Martinsville) & Joey Logano (No laps led Phoenix & Kansas)
• Most poles this season: 3 Kevin Harvick
• Brad Keselowski: 3 Top 2 finishes in 4 races on 1.5-mile tracks this season – 2 Wins (Only driver with multiple wins)
• Most 1.5-mile track top 5 finishes this season: 3 Clint Bowyer & Brad Keselowski
• Kurt Busch: Only driver to finish top 10 all 4 races on 1.5-mile tracks this season
• Best 1.5-mile track average finish this season: 6.0 Kurt Busch
• Most laps led on 1.5-mile tracks this season: 237 Kevin Harvick (Winless) – Led most laps at Las Vegas & Kansas
• Martin Truex Jr.: 343 Laps led this season – 14 Laps led on 1.5-mile tracks
• Wins Last 27 Races
• Brad Keselowski
• 6
• Kyle Busch
• 5
• Chase Elliott
• 4
• Joey Logano
• 3
• Denny Hamlin
• 2
• Kevin Harvick
• 2
• Martin Truex Jr.
• 2
• Aric Almirola
• 1
• Ryan Blaney
• 1
• Kurt Busch
• 1
• Brad Keselowski
• Season
• First 6 Races
• Last 6 Races
• Wins
• 2
• 1
• Top 3
• 4
• 1
• Top 10
• 4
• 2
• Avg. Finish
• 6.3
• 14.5
• Laps Led
• 538
• 151
• Chase Elliott
• Season
• First 5 Races
• Last 7 Races
• Wins
• 0
• 1
• Top 5
• 0
• 4
• Top 10
• 1
• 4
• Avg. Finish
• 14.0 (11th)
• 7.3 (1st)
• Races Led
• 0
• 6
• Laps Led
• 0
• 357
• 7.3 Average finish last 7 races leads all drivers
• 6 Different winners in 12 races this season – 4 Won multiple races (Kyle Busch, Hamlin, Keselowski & Truex Jr.)
• 8 Different pole winners in 12 races this season
• 3 Different winners in 4 races on 1.5-mile tracks this season – Brad Keselowski: 2 Wins
• Team Penske won 4 of last 5 races on 1.5-mile tracks (2018 Homestead-Miami, Atlanta Feb., Las Vegas March & Kansas May)
• Ford won 5 of last 6 races on 1.5-mile tracks
• Brad Keselowski: 6 Wins last 24 races (25%)
• Brad Keselowski: 3 Wins this season (Tied for most – Kyle Busch) – 2 Wins on 1.5-mile tracks
• Brad Keselowski won more than any other driver in last 27 races – 6 Wins
• Brad Keselowski: 3 Career win streaks including 3 straight wins once (2018 Darlington, Indianapolis & Las Vegas)
• Kyle Busch only driver to win consecutive races this season – Phoenix March & Auto Club
• Brad Keselowski: 3 Wins in 12 races this season (3 Wins all last season) – Winless first 24 races last season
• Brad Keselowski led only 12 laps winning Kansas including final 11 – Passed 7000 career laps led (7005)
• Brad Keselowski best Ford finisher 3 races this season – All 3 wins
• Brad Keselowski won races with 3rd & 4th closest margin-of-victory this season – Kansas May & Atlanta
• Brad Keselowski-Paul Wolfe: 29 Wins together
• Brad Keselowski best Team Penske finisher 3 races this season – All 3 wins
• Brad Keselowski only Team Penske driver in top 10 at Kansas – Winner
• 2019 Most lead changes: 38 Talladega, 26 Atlanta, 26 Texas & 23 Kansas (3 of 4 races with most lead changes 1.5-mile tracks)
• Kansas laps led – Stewart-Haas Racing: 116, Hendrick Motorsports: 112, Team Penske: 12 & Joe Gibbs Racing: 1
• Martin Truex Jr. only repeat winner last 6 races (2 Wins) – 4 Others 1 win each
• Alex Bowman first to finish 2nd in 3 straight races since Kyle Larson 2017 – First to finish 2nd in 3 straight races before first win
• Alex Bowman: 6 Career top 5 finishes – 3 Straight 2nd-place finishes
• Alex Bowman: 3 Straight 2nd-place finishes – 3 Top 5 finishes previous 126 races
• Alex Bowman passed for final lead change at Kansas – Finished 2nd
• Alex Bowman: 3 Straight races led (Career-long streak) – 86 Laps led (71 Laps led previous 46 races)
• Alex Bowman: 86 Laps led this season (All in last 3 races) – 71 Laps led all of last season
• Alex Bowman: 63 Laps led at Kansas – 2nd most laps led in a race (194 – Phoenix 11/16)
• Alex Bowman best Chevrolet finisher last 2 races – Previous time best Chevrolet finisher: Pocono 7/18
• Alex Bowman best Hendrick Motorsports finisher 3 races this season including last 2
• Chase Elliott: 3 Straight top 5 finishes – Career-long streak
• Chase Elliott season –
• Last 7 races: 1 Win, 4 Top 5 finishes, 6 races led for 357 laps – Previous 5 races: No top 5 finishes & no laps led
• Chase Elliott: 235 Laps led last 3 races – Most
• Chase Elliott: Qualified 5th at Kansas, started 32nd, finished 5th (Best of drivers failing inspection)
• Kyle Busch & Joey Logano lead all with 5 Stage wins each this season
• Kevin Harvick: Winless this season – 5 Wins at this point last season
• Kevin Harvick: 3 Stage wins this season (All on 1.5-mile tracks) – Winless
• Kevin Harvick led most laps 2 races this season (Las Vegas March & Kansas May) – Failed to win each race
• Erik Jones best Toyota finisher at Kansas (Finished 3rd) – First time best Toyota finisher since Texas 11/18 (Finished 4th)
• Erik Jones best Joe Gibbs Racing finisher at Kansas (Finished 3rd) – First time best JGR finisher since Texas 11/18
• Erik Jones only Joe Gibbs Racing finisher in top 15 at Kansas – Finished 3rd
• Erik Jones is only Joe Gibbs Racing driver without a win this season
• Clint Bowyer best Stewart-Haas Racing finisher 4 of last 6 races
• Clint Bowyer only Stewart-Haas Racing driver to finish top 10 at Kansas – Finished 5th
• Ryan Blaney is only Team Penske driver without a win this season
• Daniel Hemric best Rookie of the Year contender 3 of last 4 races
• Kyle Busch: Winless last 4 NASCAR races – Longest previous winless streak this season: 1 Race
• Kyle Busch: 11 Top 10 finishes 12 races this season – 30th-place at Kansas ended career-long top 10 streak at 13
• 3 Teams won 12 races this season – Joe Gibbs Racing (7), Team Penske (4) & Hendrick Motorsports (1)
• Joe Gibbs Racing won 4 of last 6 races with 3 different drivers – Truex Jr. (2), Kyle Busch (1) & Denny Hamlin (1)
• Team Penske won 3 of first 6 races this season – 1 Wins last 6 races (Kansas)
• 3 of 4 Hendrick Motorsports drivers finished 6th or better at Kansas – William Byron finished 20th
• Hendrick Motorsports: 6 Top 5 finishers last 3 races (2 Each race) – Only 2 top 5 finishers previous 9 races this season
• Hendrick Motorsports: 8 Top 10 finishes last 3 races – 7 Top 10 finishes previous 9 races this season
• Hendrick Motorsports: 334 Laps led last 3 races – 269 Laps led first 9 races this season
• Hendrick Motorsports: 243 Laps led on 1.5-mile tracks this season – 6 Laps led after 4 races on 1.5-mile tracks last season
• Kyle Busch only Joe Gibbs Racing driver to lead Kansas – 1 Lap led
• Stage 2 winner went on to win 7 of last 10 races
• Pole winless last 29 races – Last win from pole: Martin Truex Jr. 2018 Kentucky
• No Toyota poles this season – 7 Toyota wins this season
• 2 Overtime races this season – Daytona 500 & Kansas May
• Youngest winner: Chase Elliott – 23
• Oldest winners: Martin Truex Jr. & Denny Hamlin – 38
• 10 of 12 races this season won by drivers 33-years-old & older
• Chase Elliott only under-25 driver to win this season – 23-Years-old
• 4 Races had only 1 DNF this season – Atlanta, Las Vegas, Auto Club & Kansas
• Joe Gibbs Racing: 9 Wins last season – 7 Wins this season