NASCAR Information Sunday, September 18, 2022
NASCAR CUP SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS THIS SEASON
Bristol
Chris Buescher
Bristol winner – Started 20th, finished 7th in Stage 1 & 14th in Stage 2, 169 laps led (most) including final 61
Winner pit stops: Chris Buescher (4 Stops) 95, 237, 356, 439 (All caution)
Top 5 Stage 1 & 2: Christopher Bell 2nd & 1st, Chase Briscoe 4th & 3rd, Kyle Busch 3rd & 5th
Best free pass finisher: Justin Haley 12th
Best finisher with pit road speeding penalty: Denny Hamlin 9th
Best starting rear of field finisher: None
Best Hendrick: Chase Elliott 2nd
Best Gibbs: Christopher Bell 4th
Best Stewart-Haas: Cole Custer 8th
Best Penske: Austin Cindric 20th
Season
Most wins: 4 Chase Elliott
Most 2nd-place finishes: 4 Tyler Reddick
Most top 3 finishes: 8 Tyler Reddick
Most top 5 finishes: 11 Chase Elliott & Kyle Larson
Most top 5 finishes without a win: 8 Ryan Blaney
Most top 10 finishes: 18 Chase Elliott
Most top 10 finishes without a win: 13 Ryan Blaney & Martin Truex Jr.
Most laps led: 719 Chase Elliott
Most laps led without a win: 528 Martin Truex Jr.
Most races led: 21 Ryan Blaney
Most wins by a team: 9 Hendrick Motorsports
Playoffs
Most Playoff race 2nd-place finishes this season: 2 Denny Hamlin
Most Playoff race top 5 finishes this season: 3 Christopher Bell
Most Playoff race top 10 finishes this season: 3 Christopher Bell, William Byron & Denny Hamlin
Best Playoff race average finish this season: 4.0 Christopher Bell
Most Playoff race laps led this season: 169 Chris Buescher
19 Different winners in 29 races this season – 8 With multiple wins this season
Record for different winners in a season: 19 (1956, ’58, ’61, ’01 & ‘22)
First win of season for last 4 winners – Austin Dillon, Erik Jones, Bubba Wallace & Chris Buescher
6 Different winners last 6 races – Harvick, Larson, A. Dillon, Jones, Wallace & Buescher
6 Different teams won last 6 races – Stewart-Haas, Hendrick, Childress, Petty GMS, 23XI & Roush
3 Winners in 3 Playoff races this season
Chase Elliott: Best Playoff finisher at Bristol – Finished 2nd
Kyle Busch: Worst Playoff finisher at Bristol – Finished 34th
Chase Briscoe raced into next round – 15th (-9) before Bristol & 10th (+14) after Bristol
7 Different winners last 7 races on 1.5-mile tracks – Larson, Bowman, Byron, Kurt Busch, Hamlin, Elliott & Wallace
Hendrick Motorsports won 5 of last 8 races on 1.5-mile tracks
Stage 1 & 2 winner failed to win last 10 races
Martin Truex Jr.: 7 Stage wins this season (Winless) – Leads all drivers
1 Won consecutive races this season – Kevin Harvick (Michigan & Richmond Aug.)
4 Races won from first starting position this season –
Joey Logano (Darlington May), Denny Hamlin (Charlotte), Chase Elliott (Atlanta July) & Tyler Reddick (Indy Road Course)
Final lead change with 10 or fewer laps to go 15 of 29 races this season
Final lead change with 5 or fewer laps to go 11 of 29 races this season
Chris Buescher: 169 Laps led at Bristol (Career-high) – 24 Laps led previous 28 races this season
20 of 29 races this season won by drivers 30-years-old or younger
Cole Custer best Stewart-Haas Racing finisher 3 of last 5 races
NASCAR XFINITY SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS THIS SEASON
Most wins this season: 6 Noah Gragson
Most 2nd-place finishes this season: 3 Justin Allgaier & Noah Gragson
Most top 3 finishes this season: 11 Noah Gragson
Most top 5 finishes this season: 15 Noah Gragson
Most top 5 finishes without a win this season: 9 Sam Mayer
Most top 10 finishes this season: 23 AJ Allmendinger
Most top 10 finishes without a win this season: 16 Riley Herbst
Most laps led this season: 726 Justin Allgaier
Most races led this season: 22 Ty Gibbs
Most wins by a team: 12 JR Motorsports
11 Different winners in 26 races this season
5 Different winners in 6 races on 1.5-mile tracks this season
Ty Gibbs won 2 of 6 races on 1.5-mile tracks this season – Las Vegas March & Atlanta March
#54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota won 7 of last 12 races on 1.5-mile tracks – Ty Gibbs 4, Kyle Busch 2 & John Hunter Nemechek 1
Noah Gragson: 11 Career wins – 6 Wins this season
Noah Gragson: 6 Wins this season (Most) – 3 Straight wins
Noah Gragson: Only repeat winner last 10 races (4 Wins) – 6 Others 1-win each
Only driver to win 4 consecutive NXS races:
Sam Ard – South Boston 9/83, Martinsville 9/83, Orange County 10/83 & Charlotte 10/83
Noah Gragson only driver to win consecutive races this season – Darlington Sept., Kansas & Bristol
Noah Gragson: 13 Stage wins this season (Most) – 6 Wins this season (Most)
Justin Allgaier only driver to win Stage 1, 2 & race this season – Nashville
Justin Allgaier: 6 Stage 2 wins this season – Failed to win 5 races
Ty Gibbs: 5 Stage 1 wins this season – Failed to win all 5 races
2 Races won from pole this season – Ty Gibbs at Richmond & AJ Allmendinger at Indy Road Course
8 Races won by drivers starting front row this season
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 6 or fewer laps to go 12 of 26 races this season
Justin Allgaier passed for final lead change 4 races this season
6 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),
Road America (Ty Gibbs passed Kyle Larson) & Darlington Sept. (Noah Gragson passed Kyle Larson)
AJ Allmendinger best Kaulig Racing finisher last 9 races