NASCAR Information Sunday, May 22, 2022
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 Noah Gragson
Most top 5 finishes this season: 8 Noah Gragson
Most top 5 finishes without a win this season: 6 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: 349 Ty Gibbs (Noah Gragson 2nd with 348 laps led)
Most laps led without a win this season: 146 John Hunter Nemechek
Ty Gibbs: 2 Wins in 3 races on 1.5-mile tracks this season – 7 Total laps led on 1.5-mile tracks this season
2 Finished top 10 all 3 races on 1.5-mile tracks this season – AJ Allmendinger & Landon Cassill
Most laps led on 1.5-mile tracks this season: 122 Noah Gragson
02-Brett Moffitt
Best 1.5-mile track finish: 6th – 2020 Charlotte, Atlanta 7/21 & 2021 Kansas
1-Sam Mayer:
3 Straight top 5 finishes – Ties career-long streak (Earlier this season)
2-Sheldon Creed:
6 Career top 10 finishes – 5 Top 10 finishes this season
5-Ryan Preece
Has a pair of Xfinity wins & is competing in his 2nd race this season with a finish of 16th at Richmond
7-Justin Allgaier:
5 Top 5 finishes this season – 3 Straight top 5 finishes
8-Josh Berry:
5 Top 10 finishes on 1.5-mile tracks – 3 Top 10 finishes last 4 races on 1.5-mile tracks
9-Noah Gragson
2 Wins this season – Winless first 23 races last season
10-Landon Cassill
7 Top 10 finishes this season – 4 Top 10 finishes last 5 races
11-Daniel Hemric
10 Career 2nd-place finishes – 6 2nd-place finishes on 1.5-mile tracks
16-AJ Allmendinger
6 Straight top 10 finishes on 1.5-mile tracks – Finished 3rd twice
18-Trevor Bayne:
Finished 8th or better last 5 Charlotte races – Avg. finish: 6.4
Jason Ratcliff: 2 Charlotte NXS wins – Kyle Busch (10/09 & 5/10)
19-Brandon Jones:
1 Win this season – Martinsville April (Ended 50-race winless streak)
21-Austin Hill
6 Career top 5 finishes – 3 Top 5 finishes on 1.5-mile tracks
23-Anthony Alfredo
3 Career top 5 finishes – 2 Top 5 finishes on 1.5-mile tracks
27-Jeb Burton
Best 1.5-mile track finish: 2nd – Atlanta 7/21
31-Myatt Snider
1 Top 5 finish in 24 races on 1.5-mile tracks – 2021 Homestead-Miami winner
48-Austin Dillon
2013 Champion has 9 career wins, 5 on mile and a half tracks including 2 at Charlotte
51-Jeremy Clements
Best 1.5-mile track finish: 6th – 2019 Kansas
54-Ty Gibbs
7 Career wins – 4 Wins on 1.5-mile tracks
Chris Gayle: 2 Charlotte NXS wins – Denny Hamlin (5/16) & Ty Gibbs (2021)
68-Brandon Brown
Best 1.5-mile track finish: 4th – 2021 Charlotte
98-Riley Herbst
6 Straight top 10 finishes – Ties career-long streak (2020)
ARIC ALMIROLA
3 NASCAR CUP SERIES WINS
3 NASCAR XFINITY SERIES WINS
BRAD KESELOWSKI
2012 NASCAR CUP SERIES CHAMPION
2010 NASCAR XFINITY SERIES CHAMPION
35 NASCAR CUP SERIES WINS
2 CHARLOTTE NASCAR CUP SERIES WINS
2020 COCA-COLA 600 WINNER
4 CHARLOTTE NASCAR XFINITY SERIES WINS
RICKY STENHOUSE JR.
2-TIME NASCAR XFINITY SERIES CHAMPION (2011 & ’12)
2 NASCAR CUP SERIES WINS
8 NASCAR XFINITY SERIES WINS
NASCAR OPEN STAGE 1 WINNER LAST WEEK
RYAN BLANEY
7 NASCAR CUP SERIES WINS
2022 NASCAR ALL-STAR RACE WINNER
7 NASCAR XFINITY SERIES WINS
1 CHARLOTTE NASCAR XFINITY SERIES WIN (5/17)
KEVIN HARVICK
2014 NASCAR CUP SERIES CHAMPION
2-TIME NASCAR XFINITY SERIES CHAMPION (2001 & ’06)
58 NASCAR CUP SERIES WINS
47 NASCAR XFINITY SERIES WINS
2007 DAYTONA 500 CHAMPION
3 CHARLOTTE NASCAR CUP SERIES WINS
2-TIME COCA-COLA 600 WINNER (2011 & ’13)
JOEY LOGANO
2018 NASCAR CUP SERIES CHAMPION
28 NASCAR CUP SERIES WINS – 1 WIN THIS SEASON (DARLINGTON)
30 NASCAR XFINITY SERIES WINS
2015 DAYTONA 500 CHAMPION
1 CHARLOTTE NASCAR CUP SERIES WIN (10/15)
2 CHARLOTTE NASCAR XFINITY SERIES WINS
AUSTIN CINDRIC
2020 NASCAR XFINITY SERIES CHAMPION
2022 DAYTONA 500 CHAMPION
13 NASCAR XFINITY SERIES WINS
ALL-STAR RACE STAGE 2 WINNER LAST WEEK
TYLER REDDICK
2-TIME NASCAR XFINITY SERIES CHAMPION (2018 & ’19)
10 NASCAR XFINITY SERIES WINS – TEXAS XFINITY SERIES WINNER LAST WEEK
1 CHARLOTTE NASCAR XFINITY SERIES WIN (5/19)
9 Different winners in 12 races this season
7 Different winners in last 7 races –
AJ Allmendinger, Ty Gibbs, Brandon Jones, Noah Gragson, Josh Berry, Justin Allgaier & Tyler Reddick
Ty Gibbs won 2 of 3 races on 1.5-mile tracks this season – Las Vegas March & Atlanta March
#54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota won 7 of last 9 races on 1.5-mile tracks – Ty Gibbs 4, Kyle Busch 2 & John Hunter Nemechek 1
7 Different pole winners this season –
Ty Gibbs 3, AJ Allmendinger 2, Bayne 1, Earnhardt 1, Gragson 1, Hemric 1 & Jones 1
Noah Gragson: 6 Stage wins this season (Most) – 2 Wins this season (Phoenix March & Talladega April)
Noah Gragson: Stage 1 winner in 3 races this season including last 2 – Failed to win all 3 races
Stage 1 winner went on to win only 1 race this season – AJ Allmendinger at COTA
1 Race won from pole this season – Ty Gibbs at Richmond
5 of 12 races won from front row this season (42%)
Final lead change with 3 or fewer laps to go 6 of 12 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 4 races
4 Overtime races this season – Leader at scheduled distance won only once
Youngest winner: Ty Gibbs – 19
Oldest winner: AJ Allmendinger – 40
7 of 12 races won by drivers 25-years-old or younger this season
3 JR Motorsports drivers finished top 5 at Texas – Byron 2nd, Mayer 3rd & Allgaier 4th