{"id":6786,"date":"2025-05-18T03:12:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T03:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/?p=6786"},"modified":"2025-05-18T03:12:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T03:12:44","slug":"nascar-information-sunday-may-3-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/nascar-information-sunday-may-3-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Information Sunday, May 3, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n




NASCAR CUP SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS THIS SEASON<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most wins this season: 3 Christopher Bell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most 2nd-place finishes this season: 2 William Byron & Denny Hamlin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most top 3 finishes this season: 5 Christopher Bell & Kyle Larson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most top 5 finishes this season: 7 Kyle Larson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most top 5 finishes of winless drivers this season: 4 Ryan Blaney<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most top 10 finishes this season: 8 Kyle Larson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only driver to finish top 20 every race this season: Chase Elliott<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best average finish of drivers to compete in every race this season: 8.9 William Byron<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most Stage wins this season: 6 Kyle Larson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most laps led this season: 596 Kyle Larson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most laps led of winless drivers this season: 199 Ryan Blaney<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most races led this season: 9 William Byron<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most laps completed this season: 3063 of 3064 Chase Elliott<\/strong> (Finished 1-lap down at Bristol)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most fastest laps this season: 3 Michael McDowell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Texas best finish of season:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joey Logano 1st, Ross Chastain 2nd, Ryan Blaney 3rd, Erik Jones 5th, Austin Dillon 7th, Ty Dillon 12th, Riley Herbst 14th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Texas:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

12 Cautions – Most this season<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12 Failed to finish \u2013 2nd most this season (13 Daytona 500)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11 Speeding penalties \u2013 Tied for most this season (Phoenix)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chase Elliott<\/strong> only Hendrick driver with no laps led<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christopher Bell<\/strong> only Gibbs driver to finish in top 20<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyle Larson:<\/strong> 148 Laps from 10,000 career laps led<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kansas<\/strong>: 12th race this season \u2013 One-third of season complete after Kansas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7 Different winners in 11 races this season<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 Different pole winners in 11 races this season<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stage 1 winner went on to win only 1 race this season \u2013 Kyle Larson Bristol<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No winner from the pole this season \u2013 Last to win from pole: Tyler Reddick 2024 Miami<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pole winner finished 19th or worse last 3 races<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final lead change with 7 or fewer laps to go 8 of 11 races this season \u2013 4 by last lap pass<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leader of most laps won only 3 of 11 races this season<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winner led 10 or fewer laps in 6 of 11 races this season<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryan Blaney passed for final lead change 3 of last 4 races<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 Races finished in Overtime this season \u2013 Leader at scheduled distance failed to win 2 races<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 Different winners in 3 races on 1.5-mile tracks this season<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team Penske won last 2 races \u2013 Winless previous 9 races<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025 Texas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joey Logano<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025 Texas winner \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Started 27th, 19th in Stage 1 & 9th in Stage 2, lap 172 involved in crash, only 7 of final 8 laps led, avg. running pos.: 13.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winner pit stops: Joey Logano \u2013 5 Stops 22, 83, 127, 167, 221 (All caution)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stage 1 winner: Austin Cindric 25th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stage 2 winner: Kyle Larson 4th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top 5 Stage 1 & 2: Tyler Reddick 2nd & 2nd, Kyle Larson 4th & 1st<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most points scored: Kyle Larson 50<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Passed for final lead change: Ryan Blaney 3rd<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winner final laps led: Joey Logano 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lead changes: 20<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cautions: 12<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Failed to finish: 12<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best free pass finisher: Chris Buescher 18th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best finisher with pit road speeding penalty: Ryan Blaney 3rd<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best starting rear of field finisher: None<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Longest green flag run: 50 Laps (26-75) 24 Minutes, 28 Seconds<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Hendrick: Kyle Larson 4th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Gibbs: Christopher Bell 9th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best 23XI: Riley Herbst 14th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best RFK: Chris Buescher 18th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Penske: Joey Logano 1st<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASCAR CUP SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS THIS SEASON Most wins this season: 3 Christopher Bell Most 2nd-place finishes this season: 2 William Byron & Denny Hamlin Most top 3 finishes this season: 5 Christopher Bell & Kyle Larson Most top 5 finishes this season: 7 Kyle Larson Most top 5 finishes of winless drivers this season: 4 Ryan Blaney Most top…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17,18,6,7,8,9,19],"class_list":["post-6786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","tag-17","tag-broadcasting","tag-chris-myers","tag-chris-myers-sports","tag-fox-sports","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismyerssports.com\/cmi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}