Drivers

NASCAR’s Youth Movement is Actually Sort of Old

Goin’ Down? 2018 is being hailed as the year of the NASCAR Youth Movement as we bid farewell to older drivers and welcome in a class of youngsters. The average age of  Hendrick’s starting lineup […]

Qualifying Lap Times for Daytona XFINITY Race
Graphs and Charts

2018 XFINITY Daytona Qualifying

A fast one-graph summary of data for the XFINITY qualifying stats. Up to 36th position, qualifying times are roughly linear with a slope of 0.056 seconds per position. 1st to 2nd: 0.083 seconds 1st to […]

Drivers
Graphs and Charts

How Well Does Daytona Predict A Driver’s Season?

The Meaning of Daytona Ah… the optimism of a new season. Everyone is unbeaten. Everyone is tied for first place. Everyone has a shot at the championship. Then Speedweeks starts. NASCAR doesn’t ease into the […]

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Correlations

In many cases, we’re interested whether one variable is correlated with another: for example, do drivers who finish well in the Daytona 500 go on to have a good year? In other words, could you […]