NASCAR Information Sunday, July 1, 2018

2018 MONSTER ENERGY NASCAR CUP SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS

• Most wins this season: 5 Kevin Harvick & Kyle Busch
• Most 2nd-place finishes this season: 4 Kyle Larson (Winless)
• Most top 3 finishes this season: 10 Kyle Busch
• Most top 5 finishes this season: 13 Kevin Harvick
• Most top 10 finishes this season: 14 Kyle Busch & Kevin Harvick
• Best average finish this season: 6.8 Kyle Busch
• Most laps led this season: 1032 Kevin Harvick (Passed 1000 at Chicagoland)
• Most laps led by non-winner this season: 463 Ryan Blaney (3rd most behind Kevin Harvick & Kyle Busch)
• Most races led this season: 12 Kevin Harvick (4 Straight)
• Most poles this season: 3 Kyle Busch & Martin Truex Jr.
• 6 Different winners in 17 races this season – 9 Races to Playoffs
• Last 2 winners finished outside top 10 in Stage 1 & 2 – Martin Truex Jr. (Sonoma) & Kyle Busch (Chicagoland)
• Kevin Harvick passed for final lead change last 3 races
• 1 Race settled by last lap pass this season – Daytona 500
• Chevrolet: Only 1 win in last 27 races – 2018 Daytona 500 (Austin Dillon)
• Kevin Harvick leads all with 9 Stage wins this season – Drove for the Cycle twice
• Martin Truex Jr. 19 Stage wins last season (Most) – 3 Stage wins this season
• Brad Keselowski: 12 Career Stage wins – Went on to win only once after winning a Stage (Talladega 10/17)
• Aric Almirola: 1 Career Stage win – Chicagoland last week
• 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
• Martin Truex Jr.: 13 of 18 wins starting from first 2 rows
• 1 Winner started rear of field this season – Austin Dillon (Daytona 500)
• Aric Almirola: 71 Laps led this season – 70 Laps led at Chicagoland
• 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)
• 2 Different winners in 6 races on 1.5-mile tracks this season – Kyle Busch (3) & Kevin Harvick (3)
• Kevin Harvick: 5 Wins this season – 3 Wins on 1.5-mile tracks
• Kyle Busch: 5 Wins this season – 3 Wins on 1.5-mile tracks
• Martin Truex Jr.: Winless last 6 races on 1.5-mile tracks – 5 Wins previous 6 races
• 3 Won last 12 races on 1.5-mile tracks – Martin Truex Jr. (5), Kevin Harvick (4) & Kyle Busch (3)
• Kevin Harvick won 4 of last 8 races on 1.5-mile tracks
• Kyle Busch won 3 of last 4 races on 1.5-mile tracks
• Stewart-Haas Racing won 7 of 17 races this season (Season high) – 3 Wins all of last season
• Alex Bowman best Hendrick Motorsports finisher at Chicagoland (10th) – 3rd time best HMS finisher this season
• Kyle Busch best Joe Gibbs Racing finisher last 5 races
• No Hendrick Motorsports driver finished top 10 in 2 races this season (Both 1.5-mile tracks) – Las Vegas March & Kansas May
• Last 9 Joe Gibbs Racing wins: Kyle Busch 8 & Matt Kenseth 1 (Denny Hamlin 0)
• Clint Bowyer: 2 Pit road speeding penalties at 1 race this season – Chicagoland (Finished 5th)
• Kyle Larson best Chevrolet finisher 7 races this season
• Kevin Harvick best Ford finisher 9 races this season
• Kyle Busch best Toyota finisher 9 races this season
• Martin Truex Jr. best Toyota finisher 3 of last 6 races – Only once in previous 11 races this season
• Last time Hendrick went this many races into a season without a win: 1992 (Won 23rd race at Dover 9/20/92)
• Jimmie Johnson first time ever winless this many races since start of season
• Roush best Ford only once this season
• Toyota: 8 Wins this season – 2 at this point last season (Finished 2017 with 16 wins)
• Clint Bowyer ended career-longest 190-race winless streak at Martinsville March
• 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)
• Ford: 8 Wins this season – 10 Wins all of last season
• 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
• Closest margin-of-victory this season: .127 Seconds – Talladega April (Joey Logano over Kurt Busch)
• Martin Truex Jr. won 2 races with largest margin-of-victory this season (Both in California) – Sonoma & Auto Club

2018 NASCAR XFINITY SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS

• Most wins this season: 2 Justin Allgaier, Brad Keselowski & Kyle Larson
• Most 2nd-place finishes this season: 3 Justin Allgaier & Christopher Bell
• Most top 3 finishes this season: 7 Justin Allgaier
• Most top 5 finishes this season: 9 Elliott Sadler (Winless)
• Most top 10 finishes this season: 13 Elliott Sadler
• Most laps led this season: 458 Justin Allgaier
• Most laps led by non-winner this season: 164 Brandon Jones
• Most races led this season: 10 Christopher Bell
• Most lead lap finishes this season: 14 Cole Custer
• Most poles this season: 3 Christopher Bell & Cole Custer
• 12 Different winners in 15 races this season
• Justin Allgaier only repeat winner last 11 races (2 Wins) – 9 Others 1 win each
• 3 Overtime races this season – Daytona Feb., Talladega & Charlotte May
• *Daytona 2/17/18 – 5 Overtimes
• 2 Rookie of the Year contenders won this season – Tyler Reddick (Daytona Feb.) & Christopher Bell (Richmond April)
• Daytona 2/17/18 – Closest margin-of-victory ever .0004 (Tyler Reddick over Elliott Sadler)
• Ryan Reed: 1 DNF this season (Chicagoland) – Running at finish previous 24 races
• Tyler Reddick: 1 DNF this season (Chicagoland) – Running at finish previous 15 races
• Tyler Reddick: 1 Career Stage win – Chicagoland Stage 1 last week
• 13 Failed to finish Chicagoland (Same as Daytona Feb.) – Most DNFs this season: 14 Texas & Bristol
• Elliott Sadler: Winless this season – 4 Stage wins
• Tyler Reddick: 1 Career Stage win – Chicagoland Stage 1 winner last week
• Cole Custer best NXS regular at Chicagoland – Finished 3rd
• Brad Keselowski won last 3 races he competed
• Kyle Larson won last 2 races he competed
• Brandon Jones passed for final lead change 2 of last 4 races
• 1 Race settled by last lap pass this season (Talladega) – Spencer Gallagher passed Tyler Reddick
• #18 best Toyota finisher 7 races this season
• 4 Different winners in 5 races on 1.5-mile tracks this season – Kyle Larson 2 wins
• Youngest winner: Tyler Reddick – 22
• 5 Different teams won last 5 races – Penske, Gibbs, Childress, JR Motorsports & Ganassi
• Largest margin-of-victory this season: Chicagoland 8.030 Seconds (Kyle Larson over Kevin Harvick)
• Brad Keselowski: 2 Wins this season – No Stage wins
• Kyle Busch: 1 Win this season (Pocono) – 5 Stage wins (Leads all drivers)
• 3 Won Stages 1, 2 & race this season – Kevin Harvick (Atlanta), Joey Logano (Auto Club) & Justin Allgaier (Iowa June)
• 1 NXS & MENCS weekend sweep this season – Kevin Harvick (Atlanta)
• 1 Won first career race this season – Spencer Gallagher (Talladega)
• Oldest winner: Kevin Harvick – 42