NASCAR Information Sunday, September 8, 2019

2019 MONSTER ENERGY NASCAR CUP SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS

• Most wins this season: 4 Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin & Martin Truex Jr.
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• Most 2nd-place finishes this season: 4 Joey Logano
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• Most top 3 finishes this season: 11 Kyle Busch
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• Most top 5 finishes this season: 13 Kyle Busch & Denny Hamlin
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• Most top 10 finishes this season: 21 Kyle Busch
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• Best average finish this season: 8.2 Kyle Busch
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• Best average finish this season of winless drivers: 14.0 Ryan Newman
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• Most laps led this season: 1166 Kyle Busch
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• Most laps led by non-winner this season: 384 Ryan Blaney
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• Most races led this season: 20 Kyle Busch
• Most lead lap finishes this season: 23 Kyle Busch
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• Most poles this season: 5 Kevin Harvick
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• Most front row starts this season: 9 William Byron
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• 11 Different winners in 25 races this season – 7 Won multiple races
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• Kevin Harvick: 3 Wins last 7 races – Winless previous 21 races
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• Joey Logano: 2 Wins this season – 4 2nd-place finishes
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• Bubba Wallace: Finished 3rd at Indianapolis last week – Average finish this season: 24th
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• William Byron: 3 Career top 5 finishes – All in last 9 races
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• Clint Bowyer: Finished 7th or better last 3 races – Finished outside top 10 previous 4 races
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• Ryan Blaney: 7 Top 5 finishes this season – Most of winless drivers
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• Ryan Newman: 1 Top 10 finish last 6 races – Finished 8th at Indianapolis
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• Paul Menard: 4 Top 10 finishes this season – 2 Straight top 10 finishes
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• Daniel Suarez: Finished 11th or better last 4 races – Average finish: 8.8
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• Kyle Larson: Finished 33rd at Indianapolis – Finished 8th or better previous 5 races
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• Jimmie Johnson: Worst finish this season: 35th – Indianapolis (First DNF this season)
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• Kyle Busch: Worst finish this season: 37th – Indianapolis (First DNF this season)
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• 11 Different winners in 26 races this season – 7 Won multiple races
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• 6 Different winners in 7 races on 1.5-mile tracks this season – Brad Keselowski: 2 Wins
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• 6 Different winners last 6 races on 1.5-mile tracks – Bowman, Kurt Busch, Hamlin, Keselowski, Logano & Truex Jr.
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• Kevin Harvick: 48 Career wins – 6 Career win streaks
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• Kyle Busch only driver to win consecutive races this season – ISM Raceway March & Auto Club
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• Kevin Harvick led most laps 5 races this season – Only 1 win (Indianapolis)
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• Kevin Harvick best Stewart-Haas Racing finisher 6 of last 7 races
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• Kevin Harvick only Stewart-Haas Racing driver to lead at Indianapolis – 118 Laps led
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• Kevin Harvick-Rodney Childers: 25 Cup wins together
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• Ryan Blaney passed for final lead change 2 races this season – ISM Raceway March & Indianapolis
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• William Byron best Hendrick Motorsports finisher 5 of last 9 races
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• Denny Hamlin: 4 Wins this season – Winless last season
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• Denny Hamlin best Joe Gibbs Racing finisher 5 of last 7 races
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• Denny Hamlin only Joe Gibbs Racing finisher in top 25 at Indianapolis – Finished 6th
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• Martin Truex Jr.: Winless last 10 races – 4 Wins previous 8 races
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• Kyle Busch leads all with 10 Stage wins this season
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• Kyle Larson: 4 Stage wins this season – Winless
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• 4 Won last season, but are winless this season: Aric Almirola, Ryan Blaney, Clint Bowyer & Austin Dillon
• 2 had wins before Playoffs – Clint Bowyer & Austin Dillon
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• 3 Wins from pole last 5 races – Only 1 win from pole previous 21 races this season
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• 1 Toyota pole this season (Bristol Aug.) – 13 Toyota wins this season
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• Hendrick Motorsports: 8 Poles this season – 3 Wins
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• Hendrick Motorsports: 3 Wins this season – 3 Wins all of last season
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• 5 of last 6 Hendrick Motorsports wins by Chase Elliott
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• Kyle Busch led most laps 7 races this season – Failed to win 4
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• Joey Logano passed for final lead change 6 races this season
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• William Byron: 4 Career poles (All this season) – Winless from pole
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• 7 Drivers won poles this season, but are winless – Almirola, Blaney, Byron, A. Dillon, Johnson, Larson & Suarez
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• Indianapolis laps led: Ford 149, Chevrolet 11 & Toyota 0
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• Last 3 Ford wins all Kevin Harvick
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• Ryan Preece best finishing Rookie of the Year contender 3 of last 4 races
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• Youngest winner: Justin Haley – 20
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• Oldest winner: Kevin Harvick – 43
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• 19 of 26 races this season won by drivers 33-years-old & older (73%)
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• Team Penske won 3 of first 6 races this season – 2 Wins last 20 races (Winless last 11 races)
• 2019 NASCAR XFINITY SERIES STATS HIGHLIGHTS
• Most wins this season: 6 Christopher Bell & Cole Custer
• Most 2nd-place finishes this season: 4 Justin Allgaier, Christopher Bell & Tyler Reddick
• Most top 3 finishes this season: 14 Christopher Bell
• Most top 5 finishes this season: 19 Tyler Reddick
• Most top 10 finishes this season: 21 Tyler Reddick
• Best average finish this season of drivers competing in every race: 5.9 Tyler Reddick
• Most laps led this season: 1295 Christopher Bell
• Most laps led by non-winner this season: 440 Justin Allgaier (4th most of all drivers)
• Most races led this season: 21 Christopher Bell
• Most poles this season: 5 Cole Custer
• Most front row starts this season: 10 Christopher Bell
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• Justin Allgaier 33 races since last win – 4 2nd-place finishes this season
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• Christopher Bell finished 29th or worse 4 races this season – Failed to finish 3 races
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• Chase Briscoe: 9 Straight top 10 finishes – Career-long streak
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• Chase Briscoe average finish last 9 races: 5.3 – Best of drivers competing all 9 races
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• Cole Custer: 1 Top 5 finish last 7 races (Darlington winner) – 5 Top 2 finishes previous 7 races (3 Wins)
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• Noah Gragson best finish last 12 races: 3rd – Indianapolis
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• Noah Gragson finished 8th or better last 3 races – 2 Top 5 finishes
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• Justin Haley best finish last 9 races: 5th – Indianapolis
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• Brandon Jones best finish last 10 races: 6th – Indianapolis
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• Tyler Reddick worst finish this season: 30th (Indianapolis)
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• Tyler Reddick failed to finish 2 races this season – Las Vegas March & Indianapolis
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• 8 Different winners in 25 races this season
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• 5 Different winners last 5 races – Austin Cindric, Tyler Reddick, Christopher Bell, Cole Custer & Kyle Busch
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• 4 Different winners in 6 races on 1.5-mile tracks this season – Kyle Busch & Cole Custer 2 wins each
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• Cole Custer won last 2 races on 1.5-mile tracks (Chicagoland & Kentucky) – Most laps led each race (239 Total laps led)
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• Christopher Bell: 20 Stage wins (Most all-time) – 13 Stage wins this season (Leads all drivers)
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• Justin Allgaier: 5 Stage wins this season – Winless
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• Stage 1 winner failed to win last 9 races
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• Stage 2 winner failed to win last 7 races
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• 18 of 25 races this season won by drivers starting from first 2 rows – Only 3 from pole
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• Only 2 races won by drivers starting outside top 10 this season (Bristol Aug. & Road America)
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• Tyler Reddick this season: Winless first 8 races, 3 wins next 5 races, 1 Win last 12 races
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• Christopher Bell passed for final lead change 5 races this season including Indianapolis
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• 1 Race won by a Rookie of the Year contender this season – Chase Briscoe at Iowa July
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• Noah Gragson best Rookie finisher 3 of last 5 races
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• Youngest winner: Austin Cindric – 20
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• Oldest winner: Kyle Busch – 34
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• 19 of 25 races this season won by drivers 20-24 years-old
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• Justin Allgaier finished 2nd in 2nd & 4th closest finishes this season – Daytona Feb. & Indianapolis