NASCAR Information Sunday, March 1, 2020

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2020 NASCAR CUP SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS

  • Jimmie Johnson only Hendrick Motorsports driver in top 10 at Phoenix 3/19
  • 3 Joe Gibbs Racing drivers finished top 5 at Phoenix 3/19
  • 3 Different winners from 3 different teams with 3 different manufacturers in 3 races this season
  • Regular season points leader: Ryan Blaney (Winless) – 15th in points after 3 races last season
  • First top 5 finish of season for all 5 Auto Club top 5 finishers
  • No driver finished top 5 in more than 1 race this season
  • Kevin Harvick is only driver to finish top 10 all 3 races this season
  • 2019 Playoff drivers with no top 10 finishes after 3 races this season: William Byron & Martin Truex Jr.
  • Most laps led this season: 113 Alex Bowman (Hendrick) & 93 Chase Elliott (Hendrick)
  • Alex Bowman: 113 Laps led at Auto Club – 200 Laps led all last season (No laps led first 9 races last season)
  • Chase Elliott: 93 Laps led this season – No laps led first 5 races last season
  • Laps led all 3 races this season: Ryan Blaney & Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
  • Auto Club Stage 1 winner: Alex Bowman – Winner
  • Auto Club Stage 2 winner: Ryan Blaney – Finished 19th
  • Ryan Blaney, Alex Bowman & Jimmie Johnson finished top 3 in Stage 1 & 2 at Auto Club
  • 3 Finished top 10 in Stage 1 & 2 all 3 races this season: Ryan Blaney, Chase Elliott & Jimmie Johnson
  • 1-Kurt Busch finished 3rd at Auto Club (21st in points) – only top 20 finish in last 4 races
  • 2-Brad Keselowski finished 5th at Auto Club – first top 5 finish in last 6 races
  • 4-Kevin Harvick finished 9th or better last 8 races
  • 6-Ross Chastain finished 17th at Auto Club – last lead lap finisher
  • 8-Tyler Reddick best Rookie finisher at Las Vegas (18th) & Auto Club (11th) – only Rookie on lead lap at Auto Club
  • 9-Chase Elliott finished 4th at Auto Club – only top 10 finish last 7 races
  • 9-Chase Elliott average finish this season: 15.7 – laps led: 93
  • 9-Chase Elliott only driver to win Stage 1 & 2 more than once this season (3)
  • 10-Aric Almirola finished 8th at Auto Club – best Stewart-Haas Racing finisher
  • 10-Aric Almirola best Stewart-Haas Racing finisher at Phoenix 3/19 – Finished 4th (Best finish in first 30 races last season)
  • 11-Denny Hamlin started rear of field all 3 races this season
  • 12-Ryan Blaney leads points, 3 races led for 77 laps this season, 1 stage win, only 1 top 10 finish
  • 18-Kyle Busch finished 2nd at Auto Club – First top 10 finish this season (19th in points)
  • 18-Kyle Busch finished top 10 in first 11 races last season – Won 4th & 5th races last season (Phoenix & Auto Club)
  • 19-Martin Truex Jr. finished outside top 10 first 3 races this season – first time finishing outside top 10 in first 3 races since 2014
  • 19-Martin Truex Jr. average finish this season: 22.0 – 1 top 15 finish (14th at Auto Club)
  • 20-Erik Jones only Joe Gibbs Racing driver without laps led this season – 18th in points
  • 21-Matt DiBenedetto average finish after 3 races this season: 11.3 (8th in points) / average finish after 3 races last season: 25.0
  • 22-Joey Logano 2020 Las Vegas winner – Only top 10 finish this season
  • 24-William Byron avg. finish this season: 25.7 (1 Lap led) – 65 Laps led after 3 races in 2019 (Only HMS driver with laps led)
  • 20th in points
  • 24-William Byron finished 24th at Phoenix 3/19 – Worst finish in first 30 races last season
  • 41-Cole Custer finished 18th at Auto Club – first driver 1-lap down
  • 42-Kyle Larson 2 top 10 finishes in 3 races this season – No laps led
  • 42-Kyle Larson best finish in first 10 races last season: 6th – Phoenix
  • 47-Ricky Stenhouse Jr.: 60 Laps led this season – 54 Laps led in first 18 races last season (109 Laps led all last season)
  • 48-Jimmie Johnson 46 points scored at Auto Club (2nd most) – Finished 7th
  • 48-Jimmie Johnson 2 straight top 10 finishes – finished top 10 in 3 straight races once last season
  • 48-Jimmie Johnson 6 top 10 finishes last 12 races (56 laps led) – no top 10 finishes previous 9 races (10 laps led)
  • 88-Alex Bowman Auto Club winner – average running position: 1.8 (Worst running position: 6th)
  • 88-Alex Bowman finished 35th at Phoenix 3/19 – Worst finish in first 30 races last season (Only 1 of 2 DNFs – Crash)
  • 95-Christopher Bell failed to finish 2 of 3 races this season – average finish: 30.7
  • 4 Pit road speeding penalties in 3 races this season – 13 Pit road speeding penalties after 3 races last season
  • Phoenix 3/19: 3 Penalties by 3 drivers / Phoenix 11/19: 8 Penalties by 7 drivers
  • 3 of 4 Hendrick Motorsports drivers finished 7th or better at Auto Club – William Byron finished 15th
  • 3 of 4 Joe Gibbs Racing drivers finished top 10 at Auto Club – Martin Truex Jr. finished 14th
  • Joe Gibbs Racing led 4 total laps at Las Vegas & Auto Club – Martin Truex Jr. led 1 at Las Vegas & 3 at Auto Club
  • A Hendrick Motorsports driver won Stage 1 all 3 races this season – Chase Elliott 2 & Alex Bowman 1
  • Driver starting first finished 15th or worse all 3 races this season
  • Youngest winner: Alex Bowman – 26
  • Oldest winner: Denny Hamlin – 39

2020 NASCAR XFINITY SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS

  • Harrison Burton points leader – only driver to finish top 5 in all 3 races this season

  • Harrison Burton average finish this season: 2.7 – Best

  • Harrison Burton & Ryan Sieg only drivers to finish top 10 all 3 races this season

  • Ryan Sieg: 3 Straight top 10 finishes – Ties career-long streak (2019)

  • Ryan Sieg finished 13th or better last 8 races – 6 Top 10 finishes

  • Riley Herbst finished 2nd at Auto Club – First top 5 finish in 13th career race

  • Austin Cindric finished top 3 last 2 races

  • Justin Haley finished 12th or better all 3 races this season – 2 Top 10 finishes

  • Justin Allgaier average finish this season: 16.7 – Laps led this season: 89

  • Chase Briscoe 6 Playoff points this season – Leads all drivers

  • Chase Briscoe: Finished top 5 in first 2 races this season – Finished 19th at Auto Club (Lap 126 spin)

  • Chase Briscoe: 110 Laps led this season (Most) – Led all 3 races this season (Tied with Justin Allgaier)

  • Noah Gragson: Finished top 5 in first 2 races this season – Finished 26th at Auto Club (Lap 97 crash)

  • Ross Chastain: 2 Straight top 10 finishes

  • Brandon Jones: Auto Club pole, Stage 1 & 2 winner, most laps led (73) – Finished 30th (Lap 102 damage)

  • 3 Different winners from 3 different teams & manufacturers in 3 races this season

  • 9 Different winners in last 9 races:

  • Allmendinger, Custer, B. Jones, Bell, Allgaier, Reddick, Gragson, Briscoe & H. Burton

  • Stage 2 winner failed to win all 3 races this season

  • First career win for 2 of the 3 winners this season – Noah Gragson (Daytona Feb.) & Harrison Burton (Auto Club)

  • Harrison Burton first Rookie of the Year contender to win since Chase Briscoe at Iowa 7/19

  • 3 Won first career race last season – Michael Annett, Austin Cindric & Brandon Jones

  • 10 Won first career race with Joe Gibbs Racing:

  • Bliss 2004, Hamlin 2006, Almirola 2007, Logano 2008, E. Jones 2015,

  • Suarez 2016, Bell 2017, Preece 2017, B. Jones 2019 & H. Burton 2020

  • 8 Father-Son combinations won:  Dave & Ryan Blaney, Jeff & Harrison Burton, Dale & Dale Earnhardt Jr., Bill & Chase Elliott, Bobby & Bobby Hamilton Jr., Terry & Justin Labonte, Joe & John Hunter Nemechek, David & Larry Pearson

  • Driver starting first finished 16th or worse in first 3 races this season

  • Leader of most laps won only once this season – Chase Briscoe at Las Vegas

  • Ryan Sieg best Chevrolet finisher last 2 races

  • Harrison Burton best Joe Gibbs Racing & best Toyota finisher all 3 races this season

  • Harrison Burton best Rookie finisher all 3 races this season

  • Youngest winner: Harrison Burton – 19

  • Oldest winner: Chase Briscoe – 25

  • All 3 winners this season range from 19 to 25 in age

  • Ben Beshore: 5 Wins as crew chief – 4 Kyle Busch & 1 Harrison Burton

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