NASCAR Information Sunday, June 12, 2022
NASCAR CUP SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS THIS SEASON
Sonoma
Daniel Suárez
Sonoma winner – Started 8th, finished 17th in Stage 1 & 4th in Stage 2, 47 of final 50 laps led
Winner pit stops: Daniel Suárez (3 Stops – All green) 22, 53, 82
Top 5 Stage 1 & 2: Joey Logano 2nd & 1st, Aric Almirola 5th & 2nd
Best free pass finisher: Christopher Bell 27th
Best finisher with pit road speeding penalty: Tyler Reddick 35th (Only driver with pit road speeding penalty)
Best starting rear of field finisher: AJ Allmendinger 19th
Best Hendrick: Chase Elliott 8th
Best Gibbs: Martin Truex Jr. 26th
Best Stewart-Haas: Kevin Harvick 4th
Best Penske: Austin Cindric 5th
This season
Most wins: 2 William Byron, Ross Chastain, Denny Hamlin & Joey Logano
Most top 3 finishes: 6 Ross Chastain
Most top 5 finishes: 7 Ross Chastain
Most top 5 finishes without a win: 5 Ryan Blaney
Most top 10 finishes: 11 Kyle Busch
Most top 10 finishes without a win: 9 Christopher Bell
Most laps led: 570 William Byron
Most laps led without a win: 385 Ryan Blaney
Most races led: 13 Ryan Blaney
Most wins by a team: 5 Hendrick Motorsports
12 Different winners in 16 races this season –
William Byron, Ross Chastain, Denny Hamlin & Joey Logano only drivers with multiple wins this season
Joey Logano only repeat winner last 9 races (2 Wins) – 7 Others 1 win each
Record for different winners before start of Playoffs: 15 (2011)
10 Different pole winners this season – Christopher Bell & Ryan Blaney lead all with 3 pole wins
5 Won first career pole this season – Christopher Bell, Chase Briscoe, Chris Buescher, Austin Cindric & Cole Custer
Stage 2 winner won only 1 race this season – Kurt Busch (Kansas)
Ryan Blaney: 4 Stage wins this season (Leads all drivers) – Winless
Last to win consecutive races: Kyle Larson – 2021 Charlotte Roval, 2021 Texas & Kansas 10/21
First career win for 4 this season –
Austin Cindric (Daytona 500), Chase Briscoe (Phoenix March), Ross Chastain (Austin) & Daniel Suárez (Sonoma)
First time with more than 3 first time winners since 2011 –
5 (Marcos Ambrose, Trevor Bayne, Paul Menard, David Ragan, Regan Smith)
2 Races won from pole this season – Joey Logano (Darlington May) & Denny Hamlin (Charlotte)
2022 Winner Odds –
Cindric 30-1; Larson 4-1; Bowman 18-1; Briscoe 66-1; Byron 15-1; Chastain 28-1; Hamlin 12-1; Byron 15-2
Kyle Busch 14-1; Chastain 25-1; Elliott 6-1; Logano 7-1; Kurt Busch 20-1; Hamlin 8-1; Logano 10-1; Suarez 12-1
Final lead change with 10 or fewer laps to go 12 of 16 races this season
Final lead change with 5 or fewer laps to go 8 of 16 races this season
Final lead change with 2 or fewer laps to go 3 of last 5 races
Daniel Suárez led 47 of final 50 laps at Sonoma
3 Races settled by last lap pass this season –
Bristol Dirt (Kyle Busch winner), Talladega April (Ross Chastain winner) & Charlotte (Denny Hamlin winner)
Best Toyota finish at Sonoma: 18th – Kurt Busch
Toyota finished 18th or worse at Sonoma – First time this season no Toyota finished top 10
6 Overtime races this season – Leader at scheduled distance won 3 times
Youngest winner: Austin Cindric – 23
Oldest winner: Kurt Busch – 43
9 of 16 races this season won by drivers 29-years-old or younger
First 6 races won by drivers 29-years-old or younger this season – 7 of last 10 races won by drivers 30-years-old or older
Joe Gibbs Racing finished 26th or worse at Sonoma – No laps led
5 Different teams finished top 5 at Sonoma – Trackhouse, RFK, Front Row, Stewart-Haas & Penske
First career win for 18 drivers came on a road course
Foreign-born winners: Marcos Ambrose, Mario Andretti, Juan Pablo Montoya, Earl Ross & Daniel Suárez
NASCAR XFINITY SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS THIS SEASON
Most wins this season: 3 Ty Gibbs
Most 2nd-place finishes this season: 3 Noah Gragson
Most top 3 finishes this season: 6 AJ Allmendinger & Noah Gragson
Most top 5 finishes this season: 9 Noah Gragson
Most top 5 finishes without a win this season: 7 Sam Mayer
Most top 10 finishes this season: 13 AJ Allmendinger
Most top 10 finishes without a win this season: 9 Riley Herbst
Most laps led this season: 391 Ty Gibbs
Most races led this season: 11 Ty Gibbs
Most wins by a team: 5 JR Motorsports
9 Different winners in 14 races this season
Josh Berry only repeat winner last 8 races (2 Wins) – 6 Others 1 win each
9 Different pole winners this season –
Gibbs 3, Allmendinger 2, Alfredo 1, Bayne 1, Earnhardt 1, Gragson 1, Hemric 1, Jones 1 & Mayer 1
Noah Gragson: 6 Stage wins this season (Most) – 2 Wins this season (Phoenix March & Talladega April)
Stage 1 winner went on to win only 2 races this season – AJ Allmendinger at COTA & Josh Berry at Charlotte
Stage 2 winner failed to win last 6 races
Justin Allgaier won Stage 2 three times this season – Failed to win race
First career win for 1 this season – Austin Hill (Daytona Feb.)
First career win – 2017: 7; 2018: 4; 2019: 3; 2020: 3; 2021: 6; 2022: 1
Last to win consecutive races: Noah Gragson – Darlington 9/21 & Richmond 9/21
1 Race won from pole this season – Ty Gibbs at Richmond
3 Races won by drivers starting rear of field this season –
Ty Gibbs (Las Vegas March), Justin Allgaier (Darlington May) & AJ Allmendinger (Portland)
Final lead change with 4 or fewer laps to go 7 of 14 races this season
4 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)
Chevrolet won last 6 races
Youngest winner: Ty Gibbs – 19
Oldest winner: AJ Allmendinger – 40
7 of 14 races won by drivers 25-years-old or younger this season
Closest finish this season: Richmond – Ty Gibbs finished .116 seconds ahead of John Hunter Nemechek