NASCAR Information Sunday, May 1, 2022
NASCAR CUP SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS THIS SEASON
Dover
Chase Elliott
Dover winner – Started 4th, finished 2nd in Stage 1 & 10th in Stage 2, 73 laps led, avg. running pos.: 4.1 (best)
Winner pit stops: Chase Elliott (6 Stops) 42, 123, 160, 191, 244, 326 (All under caution)
Top 5 Stage 1 & 2: Martin Truex Jr. 5th & 4th
Best free pass finisher: Christopher Bell 4th
Best Hendrick: Chase Elliott 1st
Best Gibbs: Christopher Bell 4th
Best Stewart-Haas: Kevin Harvick 9th
Best Penske: Ryan Blaney 26th
This season
Most wins: 2 William Byron & Ross Chastain
Most 2nd-place finishes: 2 Ross Chastain & Austin Dillon
Most top 3 finishes: 6 Ross Chastain (55%)
Most top 5 finishes: 7 Ross Chastain
Most top 10 finishes: 8 Kyle Busch & Chase Elliott
Most laps led: 520 William Byron
Most races led: 10 Ryan Blaney (No laps led on Bristol Dirt)
Most wins by a team: 5 Hendrick Motorsports (45%)
1-Ross Chastain
2 Wins last 6 races – 6 Top 3 finishes in 11 races this season
4-Kevin Harvick
2 Straight top 10 finishes – First back-to-back top 10 finishes this season
5-Kyle Larson
3 Straight top 10 finishes – Longest streak this season
6-Brad Keselowski
1 Top 10 finish this season (9th – Daytona 500) – 5 Finishes of 20th or worse this season
8-Tyler Reddick
4 Top 10 finishes this season – 5 Finishes of 24th or worse this season
9-Chase Elliott
14 Career wins – 5 Straight seasons with a win
11-Denny Hamlin
1 Top 10 finish this season (Richmond winner) – 6 Finishes of 21st or worse this season
17-Chris Buescher
1 Top 10 finish last 6 races – Finished 8th at Dover
18-Kyle Busch
5 Straight top 10 finishes – Longest current streak
20-Christopher Bell
5 Top 10 finishes in 11 races this season – Finished 20th or worse other 6 races this season
22-Joey Logano
2 Top 3 finishes this season – 4 Finishes of 22nd or worse this season
24-William Byron
2 Wins this season – 3 Finishes of 22nd or worse this season
43-Erik Jones
4 Top 10 finishes this season – 6 Top 10 finishes all last season
47-Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Last 3 top 5 finishes: 2nd – Talladega 6/20, 2021 Bristol Dirt & 2022 Dover
48-Alex Bowman
Average finish last 9 races: 7.4 – Leads all drivers
9 Different winners in 11 races this season – William Byron & Ross Chastain only drivers with multiple wins this season
Alex Bowman, Kyle Busch, William Byron & Kyle Larson are only drivers to win in first 11 races this season & last season
Record for different winners before start of Playoffs: 15 (2011)
7 Different pole winners this season – Ryan Blaney leads all with 3 pole wins
Stage 1 winner failed to win last 6 races
Stage 2 winner failed to win every race this season
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
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; Ross Chastain 25-1; Chase Elliott 6-1
Final lead change with 10 or fewer laps to go 8 of 11 races this season
9 of 11 races this season won by drivers 29-years-old or younger
NASCAR XFINITY SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS THIS SEASON
All 4 JR Motorsports drivers finished top 5 & led 140 of 200 laps (70%) at Dover
Most wins this season: 3 Ty Gibbs
Most top 5 finishes this season: 7 Noah Gragson
Most top 5 finishes without a win this season: 4 Sam Mayer
AJ Allmendinger only driver to finish top 10 in every race this season
AJ Allmendinger only driver to finish on lead lap every race this season
Most laps led this season: 331 Ty Gibbs
Most laps led without a win this season: 156 Justin Allgaier
Most wins by a team this season: 4 Joe Gibbs Racing
8-Josh Berry
3 Career wins – 3 Different tracks (Dover, Las Vegas & Martinsville)
7-Justin Allgaier
Finished 2nd in 5 races since last win
Passed for final lead change last 2 races – Finished 22nd at Talladega & 2nd at Dover
54-Ty Gibbs
3 Wins last 8 races – 4 Top 3 finishes last 8 races
9-Noah Gragson
2 Wins last 7 races
3 Stage wins this season (Most) – 2 Wins this season (Phoenix March & Talladega April)
1-Sam Mayer
5 Career top 5 finishes – 4 Top 5 finishes last 5 races
16-AJ Allmendinger
Finished top 10 every race this season
(Regan Smith started 2014 with 13 straight top 10 finishes)
2-Sheldon Creed
1 Top 20 finish last 4 races – Finished 8th at Dover
98-Riley Herbst
7 Top 10 finishes this season – 4 Straight top 10 finishes
39-Ryan Sieg
4 Straight top 10 finishes – Career-long streak
7 Different winners in 10 races this season
5 Different winners in last 5 races – AJ Allmendinger, Ty Gibbs, Brandon Jones, Noah Gragson & Josh Berry
Stage 1 winner went on to win only 1 race this season – AJ Allmendinger at COTA
Dash 4 Cash winners: Sam Mayer (Richmond), AJ Allmendinger (Martinsville & Talladega) & Noah Gragson (Dover)
Last to win consecutive races: Noah Gragson – Darlington 9/21 & Richmond 9/21
1 Race won from pole this season – Ty Gibbs at Richmond
7 of 10 races won by drivers starting in first 2 rows this season
Final lead change with 3 or fewer laps to go 5 of 10 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)
7 of 10 races won by drivers 25-years-old or younger this season