NCS Charlotte Sunday, May 21, 2023
Charlotte Motor Speedway NASCAR Cup Series Stats Highlights
2022 Coca-Cola 600
Denny Hamlin
Winner – 7 of first 9 laps led, 8 of final 9 laps led (Didn’t lead 395 laps in between – No laps led 10-404)
Winner pit stops: Denny Hamlin (13 Stops – All under caution) 19, 35, 62, 103, 128, 148, 188, 193, 195, 255, 303, 341, 401
Top 5 Stage 1, 2 & 3: Ross Chastain (4th, 2nd, 1st) – Finished race 15th
Best free pass finisher: Kyle Busch 2nd
Best starting rear of field finisher: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 7th
Best Hendrick: Kyle Larson 9th
Best Gibbs: Denny Hamlin 1st
Best Stewart-Haas: Kevin Harvick 3rd
Best Penske: Joey Logano 20th
Top 3 Coca-Cola 600 finishers total 166 career wins
Denny Hamlin won Coca-Cola 600 for first time in 17th try – 2nd to Mark Martin (Won in 19th try in 2002)
28 Involved in crash / 17 Failed to finish
Chris Buescher rolled 4.5 times
13 Involved in lap 192 crash
18 Cautions / 90 Caution laps
7 Speeding penalties – 6 Drivers
Time of race: 5:13:08
Green: 2:41:05 / Yellow: 2:13:50 / Red: 18:10
Laps Led
Chevrolet 346 (6 Drivers) / Toyota 54 (4 Drivers) / Ford 13 (3 Drivers)
Trackhouse 189 / Hendrick 138 / Gibbs 51 / Childress 19 / Penske 11 / 23XI 3 / Stewart-Haas 2
Longest NASCAR race all-time: 2022 Coca-Cola 600 – 619.5 Miles
54 Different winners in 124 NASCAR Cup Series Charlotte Motor Speedway races
37 Different winners in 63 NASCAR Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 races
Most Coca-Cola 600 wins: Darrell Waltrip 5
Martin Truex Jr. only repeat winner last 13 Charlotte races (3 Wins) – 10 Others 1 win each
Leader of most laps failed to finish 10 of 63 Coca-Cola 600s
Martin Truex Jr. led most laps 4 of last 8 Coca-Cola 600s (131, 392, 233 & 116) – 2 Wins (2016 & ‘19)
Martin Truex Jr. all-time record most miles led in a race (588) – 2016 Coca-Cola 600 (392 of 400 laps led)
Most Coca-Cola 600 laps led: 392 – Martin Truex Jr. 2016 (Winner)
2nd most Coca-Cola 600 laps led: 377 – Kyle Busch 2018 (Winner)
5th most Coca-Cola 600 laps led: 327 – Kyle Larson 2021 (Winner)
Fewest laps led by winner: 2 – Kevin Harvick 2011 & Austin Dillon 2017
Latest point winner took lead for first time in Coca-Cola 600: Lap 399 – Austin Dillon 2017
Coca-Cola 600 leader at 500-miles failed to win 28 times
Most laps led from start of Coca-Cola 600: 77 – Martin Truex Jr. (2016)
Coca-Cola 600 winner led lap 1 ten times
Most consecutive laps led to finish of Coca-Cola 600: 240 – Jim Paschal (1967)
Coca-Cola 600 winner took lead for first time after 500 miles (334 Laps) 5 times
Final lead change came with 10 or fewer laps to go 17 times in Coca-Cola 600
Final lead change with 5 laps to go 4 of last 6 Coca-Cola 600s
Coca-Cola 600 winner went on to win championship in same year 7 times including Kyle Larson in 2021
18 NASCAR Cup Series champions won Coca-Cola 600 – Chase Elliott & Joey Logano winless in 600
6 Won Daytona 500 & Coca-Cola 600 in same year – Last: Jeff Gordon 1997
8 Won All-Star race & Coca-Cola 600 in same year – Last: Kyle Larson 2021
Jimmie Johnson only driver to win 3 straight Coca-Cola 600s – 2003, ’04 & ’05 (Last to win 600 back-to-back)
Coca-Cola 600 first career win for 7 drivers – 4 Won championships
5 Shortened Coca-Cola 600 races
3 Coca-Cola 600s finished in Overtime – 2011, ’20 & ’22 (Leader at scheduled distance failed to win all 3)
3 Charlotte races settled by last lap pass (All 3 on May 29) – 2005, ’11 & ‘22 Coca-Cola 600s
Drivers won first race of season 32 times at Coca-Cola 600
12 Scored their only win of season at Coca-Cola 600
Chevrolet leads all with 25 Coca-Cola 600 wins
Ford: 13 Coca-Cola 600 wins – 1 Win last 20 races (2020 Brad Keselowski)
Toyota won Coca-Cola 600 six times
2 Won Coca-Cola 600 in first try – Joe Lee Johnson & Matt Kenseth
Mark Martin won Coca-Cola 600 in 19th try (2002) – Most of all drivers
Denny Hamlin won Coca-Cola 600 in 17th try (2022) – 2nd most before first win
Kyle Busch won Coca-Cola in 15th try (2018) – 3rd most before first win
3 Scored their first win with Hendrick Motorsports in Coca-Cola 600 – Jeff Gordon, Casey Mears & Kasey Kahne
6 Coca-Cola 600 wins by car #3 – Dale Earnhardt (3), Buddy Baker (1), Austin Dillon (1) & David Pearson (1)
Coca-Cola 600 largest margin-of-victory: 4 Laps – 1960 Joe Lee Johnson & 1964 Jim Paschal
Last time only the winner finished on lead lap in Coca-Cola 600: 1987 Kyle Petty
Most finishing on lead lap in Coca-Cola 600: 26 (2009)
Coca-Cola 600 pit road speeding penalties:
2017: 7 / 2018: 4 / 2019: 6 / 2020: 10 / 2021: 3 / 2022: 7
Worst official starting position of 600 winner: 37th – Jimmie Johnson 2003 (Started from rear – Engine change)
Brad Keselowski started rear of field & won 2020 Coca-Cola 600
Oldest Coca-Cola 600 winner: 46 – Bobby Allison 1984
Youngest Coca-Cola 600 winner: 22 – Jeff Gordon 1994
Joe Gibbs Racing won 3 of last 6 Charlotte races
13 Won Coca-Cola 600 from first starting position
Youngest Coca-Cola 600 pole: 21-Years-old William Byron (2019)
Coca-Cola 600 pole failed to finish 16 of 63 races
Coca-Cola 600 won from first starting position 5 of last 9 races – Winless previous 9 races
5 Straight Coca-Cola 600 poles: Jeff Gordon (1994-’98) & David Pearson (1974-’78)
David Pearson: 15 Straight Charlotte front row starts 1972-’80 (14 with Wood Brothers) – 12 Poles including 11-in-a-row