NASCAR Information Sunday, June 5, 2022
NASCAR CUP SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS THIS SEASON
St. Louis
Joey Logano
St. Louis winner – Started 7th, finished 7th in Stage 1 & 18th in Stage 2, first lead lap 208, passed Kyle Busch with 2 to go
Winner pit stops: Joey Logano (4 Stops – All under caution) 48, 97, 131, 185
Top 5 Stage 1 & 2: None
Best free pass finisher: Tyler Reddick 16th
Best finisher with pit road speeding penalty: Justin Haley 14th (Only driver with pit road speeding penalty)
Best starting rear of field finisher: AJ Allmendinger 10th
Best Hendrick: Kyle Larson 12th
Best Gibbs: Kyle Busch 2nd
Best Stewart-Haas: Aric Almirola 5th
Best Penske: Joey Logano 1st
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
Best average finish: 10.6 Kyle Busch
Most laps led: 570 William Byron
Most laps led without a win: 385 Ryan Blaney
Most races led: 13 Ryan Blaney (No laps led on Bristol Dirt & Darlington)
Most wins by a team: 5 Hendrick Motorsports
1-Ross Chastain:
No top 5 finishes last 4 races – Longest streak this season
10-Aric Almirola:
Best finish last 14 races: 5th – St. Louis
12-Ryan Blaney:
1 Top 10 finish last 6 races – Finished 4th at St. Louis
18-Kyle Busch:
3 Straight top 3 finishes – Finished 2nd last 2 races (Passed for final lead change both races)
7 Straight races led – 246 Laps led
19-Martin Truex Jr.:
2 Top 5 finishes this season – 3 Wins at this point last season
20-Christopher Bell:
Finished 9th or better last 5 races
22-Joey Logano:
2 Wins last 4 races
2 Wins this season – Only 1 win last season (Bristol Dirt)
43-Erik Jones:
5 Top 10 finishes this season – 3 Top 10 finishes last 6 races
45-Kurt Busch:
3 Top 3 finishes this season – 2 Top 3 finishes last 3 races
11 Different winners in 15 races this season –
William Byron, Ross Chastain, Denny Hamlin & Joey Logano only drivers with multiple wins this season
Joey Logano only repeat winner last 8 races (2 Wins) – 6 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
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 3 this season – Austin Cindric (Daytona 500), Chase Briscoe (Phoenix March) & Ross Chastain (Austin)
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
Final lead change with 10 or fewer laps to go 12 of 15 races this season
Final lead change with 5 or fewer laps to go 8 of 15 races this season
Final lead change with 2 or fewer laps to go 3 of last 4 races
Kyle Busch passed for final lead change last 2 races – Final lap at Charlotte & 2 to go at St. Louis
3 Races settled by last lap pass this season –
Bristol Dirt (Kyle Busch winner), Talladega April (Ross Chastain winner) & Charlotte (Denny Hamlin winner)
3 of last 7 races settled by last lap pass – Final lead change with 2 or fewer laps to go 5 of last 7 races
Erik Jones best Chevrolet finisher at St. Louis – Finished 7th (Only Chevrolet driver to lead St. Louis – 4 Laps led)
Toyota: Winless first 6 races this season – 4 Wins last 9 races
6 Overtime races this season – Leader at scheduled distance won 3 times
Youngest winner: Austin Cindric – 23
Oldest winner: Kurt Busch – 43
9 of 15 races this season won by drivers 29-years-old or younger
First 6 races won by drivers 29-years-old or younger this season – 6 of last 9 races won by drivers 31-years-old or older
Closest margin-of-victory this season: .036 Seconds – Austin Cindric over Bubba Wallace (Daytona 500)
No Hendrick Motorsports driver in top 10 at St. Louis – 2nd time this season (Phoenix)
Hendrick Motorsports: No laps led at St. Louis – 2nd time this season (Austin)
Team Penske: All 3 drivers finished 11th or better at St. Louis – 2 Finished top 5 (Logano & Blaney)
Team Penske: 3 Top 10 finishes last 6 races – 2 Wins (Logano at Darlington & St. Louis)
Team Penske: All 3 drivers led St. Louis – 3rd time this season (Daytona 500 & Austin)
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