NASCAR Information Sunday, July 31, 2022
NASCAR CUP SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS THIS SEASON
Indianapolis Road
Tyler Reddick
Indianapolis winner – Pole, finished 15th in Stage 1 & 12th in Stage 2, 3 times led for 38 laps (most), avg. running pos.: 3.7 (best)
Winner pit stops: Tyler Reddick (3 Stops) 13, 33, 51 (All green)
Top 5 Stage 1 & 2: Chase Elliott 5th & 4th
Best free pass finisher: Chris Buescher 10th
Best finisher with pit road speeding penalty: None
Best starting rear of field finisher: Cody Ware 24th
Best Hendrick: Chase Elliott 16th
Best Gibbs: Kyle Busch 11th
Best Stewart-Haas: Cole Custer 9th
Best Penske: Austin Cindric 2nd
This season
Most wins: 4 Chase Elliott
Most 2nd-place finishes: 3 Ross Chastain & Tyler Reddick
Most top 3 finishes: 7 Ross Chastain
Most top 5 finishes: 10 Ross Chastain
Most top 5 finishes without a win: 7 Ryan Blaney
Most top 10 finishes: 15 Chase Elliott
Most top 10 finishes without a win: 11 Kevin Harvick
Most laps led: 658 Chase Elliott
Most laps led without a win: 455 Martin Truex Jr.
Most races led: 18 Ryan Blaney
Most wins by a team: 8 Hendrick Motorsports
14 Different winners in 22 races this season – 6 With multiple wins this season
Record for different winners before start of Playoffs: 15 (2011)
12 Different pole winners this season – Christopher Bell, Ryan Blaney & Denny Hamlin lead all with 3 pole wins
5 Won first career pole this season – Christopher Bell, Chase Briscoe, Chris Buescher, Austin Cindric & Cole Custer
Martin Truex Jr.: 7 Stage wins this season (Winless) – Leads all drivers
Last to win consecutive races: Kyle Larson – 2021 Charlotte Roval, 2021 Texas & Kansas 10/21
4 Races won from first starting position this season –
Joey Logano (Darlington May), Denny Hamlin (Charlotte), Chase Elliott (Atlanta July) & Daniel Hemric (Indianapolis Road)
Final lead change with 10 or fewer laps to go 13 of 22 races this season
Final lead change with 5 or fewer laps to go 9 of 22 races this season
3 Races settled by last lap pass this season –
Bristol Dirt (Kyle Busch winner), Talladega April (Ross Chastain winner) & Charlotte (Denny Hamlin winner)
7 Overtime races this season – Leader at scheduled distance won 4 times
Closest margin-of-victory this season: .036 Seconds – Austin Cindric over Bubba Wallace (Daytona 500)
Chase Elliott best Hendrick Motorsports finisher last 7 races
Austin Cindric best Team Penske finisher 4 of last 5 races
No Hendrick or Gibbs drivers finished top 10 at Indianapolis Road Course
NASCAR XFINITY SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS THIS SEASON
Most wins this season: 4 Ty Gibbs
Most 2nd-place finishes this season: 3 Noah Gragson
Most top 3 finishes this season: 7 AJ Allmendinger, Ty Gibbs & Noah Gragson
Most top 5 finishes this season: 10 Noah Gragson
Most top 5 finishes without a win this season: 8 Sam Mayer
Most top 10 finishes this season: 17 AJ Allmendinger
Most top 10 finishes without a win this season: 13 Riley Herbst
Most laps led this season: 538 Justin Allgaier
Most races led this season: 17 Ty Gibbs
Most wins by a team: 8 JR Motorsports
9 Different winners in 20 races this season
5 Different winners last 5 races – Gibbs, Hill, Allgaier, Gragson & Allmendinger
Noah Gragson: 8 Stage wins this season (Most) – 3 Wins this season
JR Motorsports: 23 Stage wins this season
Justin Allgaier only driver to win Stage 1, 2 & race this season – Nashville
Last to win consecutive races: Noah Gragson – Darlington 9/21 & Richmond 9/21
2 Races won from pole this season – Ty Gibbs at Richmond & AJ Allmendinger at Indianapolis Road
Final lead change with 6 or fewer laps to go 9 of 20 races this season
5 Races settled by last lap pass this season –
Daytona Feb. (Austin Hill passed AJ Allmendinger), Atlanta March (Ty Gibbs passed Ryan Sieg),
Richmond (Ty Gibbs passed John Hunter Nemechek), Martinsville April (Brandon Jones passed Ty Gibbs) &
Road America (Ty Gibbs passed Kyle Larson)
Closest finish this season: Atlanta July – Austin Hill finished .111 seconds ahead of Josh Berry