• Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
Building Speed
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Charts and Graphs
  • Podcast
  • Videos
  • About
  • Contact
    • Opt-out preferences

Month: February 2021

Homestead-Miami

2021 Homestead-Miami Race Preview

2021-02-27 dr. diandra 1

The 2021 Homestead-Miami Race Preview predicts what type of race to expect based on the last few years of data. […]

This is a MTS CT Plus Flat Trac, which Goodyear (and other companies) use for tire testing (Photo courtesy of Smithers.)
Goodyear

Nuclear Deterrence and Goodyear Tires

2021-02-26 dr. diandra 1

How does the country’s nuclear deterrence system help make Goodyear tires? And how do Goodyear tires help improve nuclear deterrence? […]

Chase Elliott

Daytona 2021 Road Course Deep Dive: Chase Elliott

2021-02-23 dr. diandra 0

The Daytona 2021 Road Course deep dive features Chase Elliott, who had four consecutive road-course wins, but finished 21st here. Why? […]

Daytona Road Course

2021 Daytona Road Course Race Report

2021-02-22 dr. diandra 1

The 2021 Daytona Road Course Race features a surprise winner and an incredibly frustrating end to Chase Elliott’s string of road course wins. […]

Daytona 500

2021 Daytona 500 Race Report

2021-02-17 dr. diandra 0

The 2021 Daytona 500 race report: A lot of crashes and a pleasantly surprising winner — but many fewer green-flag passes […]

a scatter plot showing no correlation between starting and finishing positions in the Daytona 500 from 2012-2014
Daytona 500

How Does Michael McDowell’s Daytona 500 Win Impact the Playoffs?

2021-02-16 dr. diandra 2

Michael McDowell’s Daytona 500 win was one of the approximately once-in-a-decade events in which an underdog wins. How does this affect the playoffs? […]

Daytona 500

Is Avoiding Accidents the Most Important Skill for Winning the Daytona 500?

2021-02-12 dr. diandra 0

Brad Keselowski said that the reason he thinks Denny Hamlin wins at Daytona is that Hamlin is good at avoiding accidents. Is Brad right? […]

Busch Clash

How Long Will the Busch Clash Run This Year?

2021-02-09 dr. diandra 1

With the Busch Clash moving from the oval to the road course, how long should we expect the Busch Clash run time to be? Historical Busch Clash Run Times I’ve shown here the times of […]

Busch Clash

Busch Clash: Are There Too Many Drivers?

2021-02-08 dr. diandra 0

Every year about this time, NASCAR fans question whether the Busch Clash has too many drivers. Is it really a selective race if more than half a full field is racing? NASCAR is making it […]

Daytona 500

Can ‘Anyone’ Win The Daytona 500?

2021-02-05 dr. diandra 4

A lot predictions claim that drivers who don’t usually run upfront (i.e. ‘anyone’) are strong candidates to win the Daytona 500. Are they? The Premise: Anyone Can Win There’s a perception that ‘anyone’ can win […]

Posts navigation

1 2 »

Buy The Physics of NASCAR

  • Independent Bookstores
  • Politics and Prose
  • Amazon
  • Nook
  • Kindle

Topics

Archives

  • My Non-Fiction Writing
  • My Fiction Writing
  • The Science of Speed Video Series
  • My Highlight Reel

Copyright Trivalent Productions 2008-2020

Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}