NASCAR Kansas Sunday, October 11, 2020
NASCAR CUP SERIES KANSAS STATS HIGHLIGHTS
Most Kansas wins: 3 Jeff Gordon, Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick & Jimmie Johnson
Most Kansas 2nd-place finishes: 3 Kevin Harvick & Martin Truex Jr.
Most Kansas top 3 finishes: 8 Kevin Harvick & Jimmie Johnson
Most Kansas top 5 finishes: 11 Jeff Gordon
Most Kansas top 10 finishes: 19 Jimmie Johnson
Most Kansas laps led: 864 Kevin Harvick
Most Kansas races running at finish: 28 of 29 Kevin Harvick
Most Kansas lead lap finishes: 24 Kevin Harvick
Winner pit stops & lap Kansas July: Denny Hamlin (7 Stops) 27, 83, 101, 144, 163, 196, 236
Longest green flag run Kansas July: 51 Laps (31-81)
Top 5 Stage 1 & 2 Kansas July:
Denny Hamlin (2nd & 4th), Brad Keselowski (5th & 1st), Kyle Busch (1st & 5th), Ryan Blaney (4th & 2nd)
Speeding Kansas July: Nemechek (19th), Yeley (22nd), Bell (23rd), A. Dillon (27th), Newman (28th), Sorenson (31st)
Rear of field Kansas July: Josh Bilicki (25th)
Best HMS Kansas July: 8th Alex Bowman
Best JGR Kansas July: 1st Denny Hamlin
Best SHR Kansas July: 4th Kevin Harvick
Best TPR Kansas July: 2nd Brad Keselowski
Most 1.5-mile track wins this season: 2 Denny Hamlin
Most 1.5-mile track 2nd-place finishes this season: 2 Matt DiBenedetto & Chase Elliott
Most 1.5-mile track top 3 finishes this season: 4 Denny Hamlin
Most 1.5-mile track top 5 finishes this season: 5 Denny Hamlin & Kevin Harvick
Most 1.5-mile track top 10 finishes this season: 8 Kevin Harvick & Brad Keselowski
Best 1.5-mile track average finish last season: 7.1 Ryan Blaney
Most laps led on 1.5-mile tracks last season: 366 Kevin Harvick
Most races led on 1.5-mile tracks this season: 8 Ryan Blaney & Joey Logano
Denny Hamlin: 2 Straight Kansas wins – No driver won 3 straight Kansas races
1-Kurt Busch 2004 Champion – Winless in 29 Kansas races
1-Kurt Busch best non-Playoff finisher last Kansas Playoff race – Finished 4th
1-Kurt Busch: 3 Straight Kansas top 10 finishes – Average finish: 6.7
2-Brad Keselowski: Kansas 5/19 winner – 3rd & final win last season (Winless final 24 races last season)
2-Brad Keselowski: Kansas 6/11 winner – First win with Team Penske
2-Brad Keselowski finished 13th racing #25 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet at 2009 Kansas (Started 3rd) – First Kansas race
3-Austin Dillon first career NCS race: Kansas 10/11 – Finished 26th (21-Years-old)
4-Kevin Harvick: 3 Kansas wins – 1 Childress Chevrolet, 1 Stewart-Haas Chevrolet & 1 Stewart-Haas Ford
4-Kevin Harvick leads all with 3 wins on Kansas reconfigured track (16 Races)
4-Kevin Harvick: Finished 4th at Kansas July – Passed for final lead change
4-Kevin Harvick leads all with 5 Kansas poles – 2 Wins from pole (10/13 & 5/18)
4-Kevin Harvick: 3 Straight Kansas poles (10/13, 5/14 & 10/14)
6-Ryan Newman failed to finish 4 of last 7 Kansas races – 3 Due to crashes
9-Chase Elliott: Finished 12th or better last 4 Kansas races – 3 Top 5 finishes last 4 Kansas races
10-Aric Almirola Kansas 5/13/17: T5 Compression fracture of back after crash involving Joey Logano & Danica Patrick
10-Aric Almirola best Kansas finish: 6th (July)
11-Denny Hamlin: 2 Straight Kansas wins – No driver won 3 straight Kansas races
11-Denny Hamlin: 3 Kansas wins – 2 Straight Kansas wins
11-Denny Hamlin started 23rd & won 2019 Kansas Playoff race – 2nd worst starting position of Kansas winner
11-Denny Hamlin first to win Kansas in Toyota (4/12)
11-Denny Hamlin first career NCS race: 2005 Kansas – Finished 32nd (24-years-old)
11-Denny Hamlin won Playoff cut-off races at Kansas & Phoenix last season
12-Ryan Blaney:
Finished 21st at Kansas 10/19 (Worst Playoff finisher) – Started 3rd, finished 7th in Stage 1 & 2nd in Stage 2, lap 251 hit wall, lap 252 tire down
12-Ryan Blaney first career NCS race: Kansas 5/14 (Dave Blaney failed to qualify) – Finished 27th (20-years-old)
18-Kyle Busch: 9 Top 10 finishes last 11 Kansas races – Only 2 top 10 finishes previous 14 Kansas races
19-Martin Truex Jr. won Kansas for first time in 18th try (5/17) – Most of all drivers
19-Martin Truex Jr. finished 6th or better 6 of last 7 Kansas races – 5 Top 5 finishes
19-Maritn Truex Jr. finished 6th at Kansas 10/19 – First of 5 straight finishes of 6th or better to end of season
20-Erik Jones finished 7th or better last 5 Kansas races – 3 Top 5 finishes
20-Erik Jones first race: Kansas 5/15 (18-Years-old) – Started 12th & Finished 40th (Substitute for Kyle Busch)
22-Joey Logano finished 17th at Kansas 10/19 – Followed with 4 straight top 10 finishes to end season
Paul Wolfe: 2 Kansas wins including first win (6/11) – Also won 5/19
24-William Byron finished 5th at Kansas 10/19 – 4th of Playoff drivers, best finisher of drivers failing to advance to Round of 8
38-John Hunter Nemechek 2018 Kansas Xfinity Series winner
41-Cole Custer: Finished 7th at Kansas July – Best Rookie finisher
95-Christopher Bell 2017 Kansas Xfinity Series winner (First career NXS win & first Kansas race) – Led only final 4 laps
15 Different winners in 29 NASCAR Cup Series Kansas races
11 Different winners 16 Kansas Playoff races
5 Different winners last 5 Kansas Playoff races – Logano, Harvick, Truex Jr., Elliott & Hamlin
2 Won Kansas Playoff race & championship in same season – Jimmie Johnson (2008) & Martin Truex Jr. (2017)
Non-Playoff driver won 3 of 16 Kansas Playoff races
4 Won back-to-back Kansas NCS races –
Jeff Gordon (2001 & ’02), Matt Kenseth (10/12 & 4/13), Martin Truex Jr. (5/17 & 10/17) & Denny Hamlin (10/19 & 7/20)
No Stage 1 winner went on to win Kansas race
Only 1 Stage 2 winner went on to win Kansas race – Denny Hamlin 2019 Kansas Playoff race
3 Won Kansas race & championship in same season – Jeff Gordon 2001, Jimmie Johnson 2008 & Martin Truex Jr. 5/17 & 10/17
Margin of victory less than 1 second 20 Kansas races
Leader of most laps won only 11 of 29 Kansas races
Leader of most laps failed to win 8 of last 11 Kansas races
6 of 29 Kansas races won from pole
Worst starting position of Kansas winner: 25th – Brad Keselowski 6/11
4 Kansas Overtime finishes – Johnson won 10/11, Logano won 10/15, Keselowski won 5/19 & Hamlin won 10/19
Hendrick Motorsports leads with 7 Kansas wins
Joe Gibbs Racing: 6 Kansas wins
Team Penske: 5 Kansas wins
Roush Fenway Racing: 4 Kansas wins
Stewart-Haas Racing: 3 Kansas wins
Richard Childress Racing: 1 Kansas win (10/13)
NASCAR XFINITY SERIES KANSAS STATS HIGHLIGHTS
Most 1.5-mile track wins this season: 3 Chase Briscoe & Austin Cindric
Most 1.5-mile track 2nd-place finishes this season: 3 Austin Cindric
Most 1.5-mile track top 3 finishes this season: 7 Austin Cindric
Most 1.5-mile track top 5 finishes this season: 7 Austin Cindric
Most 1.5-mile track top 10 finishes this season: 9 Ross Chastain & Austin Cindric
Most laps led on 1.5-mile tracks last season: 577 Austin Cindric
Most races led on 1.5-mile tracks this season: All 10 Austin Cindric
19-Brandon Jones: 2 Straight Kansas wins – Kyle Busch only driver to win 3 straight Kansas races (2014, ’15 & ’16)
22-Austin Cindric: Finished 2nd at Kansas July – Stage 1 & 2 winner, 3 times led for 131 laps, passed for lead on final lap
39-Ryan Sieg: Finished 4th at Kansas July in Overtime – Leader at scheduled distance
39-Ryan Sieg: 4 Kansas top 10 finishes – 3 Straight Kansas top 10 finishes
15 Different winners in 20 NASCAR Xfinity Series Kansas races
Kyle Busch (4), Brandon Jones (2) & Joey Logano (2) only drivers to win more than 1 Kansas race
6 Different winners in 9 races on reconfigured Kansas track – Kyle Busch won 3
First career win for 3 of last 4 Kansas winners – Christopher Bell, John Hunter Nemechek & Brandon Jones
3 Won back-to-back Kansas NXS races – Joey Logano (2009 & ’10), Kyle Busch (2014, ’15 & ‘16) & Brandon Jones (2019 & ’20)
2 Won Kansas NXS race & championship in same season – Kevin Harvick 2006 & Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 2012
No Stage 1 winner went on to win Kansas race
Only 1 Stage 2 winner went on to win Kansas race – John Hunter Nemechek 2018
Joe Gibbs Racing won 10 of last 13 races with 6 different drivers – Bell, Kyle Busch, Hamlin, B. Jones Kenseth & Logano
Winner took lead for first time on lap 102 or later in 10 Kansas races
Kansas winner took lead for final time with 6 or fewer laps to go 8 times
Mid-race leader won only 2 of 20 Kansas races
Leader with 10 to go failed to win 3 of last 4 Kansas races
4 Kansas races settled by last lap pass including July – Brandon Jones passed Austin Cindric
Leader of most laps won only 3 of 20 Kansas races – Denny Hamlin 2008, Brad Keselowski 2011 & Kyle Busch 2016
Kyle Busch led most laps 3 Kansas races – 1 Win after leading most laps (2016)
Toyota leads all manufacturers with 10 Kansas wins
4 Kansas Overtime finishes
Kyle Busch won 4 Kansas races – Passed for final lead change 4 times
Kyle Busch won Kansas after free pass in 2014 & ‘16
Christopher Bell, Jeff Green & John Hunter Nemechek only drivers to win Kansas in first try
Matt Kenseth won Kansas in 7th try – Most of all drivers
Only 2 of 20 Kansas races won from pole – Joey Logano (2010) & Kyle Busch (2016)
Worst starting position of Kansas winner: 19th – Denny Hamlin 2008 & Joe Nemechek 2004