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Month: January 2021

Weather

Will Later Race Starts Mean More Rain Outs?

2021-01-29 Diandra 2

Over the years, NASCAR race start times have been moving to later in the day. There’s been a conversation about whether those later start times will increase the likelihood of rain delays. Here’s the questions […]

Racing

Best Drivers by Track Type 2000-2020

2021-01-27 Diandra 0

Today’s analysis is the last in the track-type series. Today, we’ll look at the best drivers who drove at least 50 races in their careers and at least one race in the time period 2000-2020. […]

Racing

The Best Average Finishing Position by Track Type

2021-01-25 Diandra 0

We’ve looked in detail at the average finishing positions for the five track types (superspeedway, short tracks, road courses, intermediate tracks and the 2-mile non-superspeedway tracks, which I’ve creatively called ‘other’. Now, let’s put all […]

Racing

2021 NASCAR Preview: Short Tracks

2021-01-22 Diandra 1

I saved my favorite kind of racing for last. Everyone’s talking about road courses this year, but short tracks make up a third of the circuits in the season. So, before we pull all the […]

Auto Club Speedway of California

2021 NASCAR Preview: ‘Other’ Tracks

2021-01-20 Diandra 1

Fontana (the old Fontana), Pocono, Indy and Michigan are larger than intermediate tracks, but not superspeedways. The number of such tracks is going way down in 2021, which means that drivers who did well at […]

Racing

2021 NASCAR Preview: Best Drivers at Intermediate Tracks

2021-01-18 Diandra 0

There are fewer intermediate tracks on the 2021 NASCAR schedule than at any time since 2000. But they still make up a quarter of the schedule. We’ve looked at superspeedways and road courses already. Let’s […]

Racing

How Does Having Seven Road Courses in 2021 Change the Championship Race?

2021-01-15 Diandra 3

Once upon a time, road courses were the least popular type of racing among NASCAR fans — and also among many drivers. But that’s changed. And it’ll change even more given that there are seven […]

Racing

Which NASCAR Drivers are Best at Superspeedways?

2021-01-14 Diandra 6

If asked who the best superspeedway driver was, most NASCAR fans would say Dale Earnhardt. But what do the numbers say? This post is part of a preseason series on how the 2021 NASCAR schedule […]

Schedules

The NASCAR 2021 Schedule

2021-01-13 Diandra 5

The NASCAR Cup Series will run at a very different distribution of tracks in 2021 than in any year past. Here’s the first in a series of posts looking at schedule changes and how they […]

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