Just out of curiosity, I decided to do a similar analysis on the Nationwide Series caution record as I did on the Cup record. My intent was that if there was something specific to the Cup series – the new car, the Chase, etc.), it would show up because the Nationwide would follow a different trend. Not at all! Remember that I’m plotting number of cautions per 100 miles run.
No too surprisingly, the Nationwide Series has more cautions than the Cup Series; however, the cautions are decreasing much faster in the Nationwide Series than in the Cup Series.
Taking the linear trend to its logical extreme, we can expect the first caution-free season in 2018 for the Cup Series and 2030 for the Nationwide Series!
LOL, you mean “natural” cautions, right, Diandra? Not the ones that NASCAR throws to close up the field?