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

Month: March 2021

Bristol Motor Speedway

Dirt Physics

2021-03-26 dr. diandra 1

The same physics applies everywhere. So why will racing on dirt be so different? […]

The Lead-O-Gram and Caution-O-Gram for 2021 SprinG Atlanta
Atlanta Motor Speedway

2021 Spring Atlanta Race Review

2021-03-22 dr. diandra 1

The 2021 Spring Phoenix Race Review highlights lots of leaders, and more green-flag passing that we’ve seen at the spring race for quite some time. […]

A photograph of the in-road scoring loops at Charlotte Motor Speedway
Pit Road

Pit Road Speeding FAQ

2021-03-17 dr. diandra 20

One of the most common penalties in a NASCAR race is speeding on pit road. So how does NASCAR measure and assess pit-road speeding penalties? […]

Phoenix International Raceway

2021 Spring Phoenix Race Review

2021-03-15 dr. diandra 2

The 2021 Spring Phoenix Race Review highlights lots of leaders, and more green-flag passing that we’ve seen at the spring race for quite some time. […]

A pie chart showing that 50% of the drivers who get into the playoffs having only won road courses and/or superspeedway races don't make it out of the top 16.
Road Courses

Will Unexpected Winners Change the NASCAR Playoffs?

2021-03-12 dr. diandra 3

The 2021 season started out with two first-time, unexpected winners. How will they impact the NASCAR Playoffs? […]

Homestead-Miami

Spring 2021 Las Vegas Race Review

2021-03-08 dr. diandra 0

The Spring 2021 Las Vegas Race Review features higher leader changes and passing stats than usual, despite one of the larger margins of victory for the track. […]

A scatter plot showing the number of cautions in 2018 as a function of number of races
Statistics

Early-Season Predictions: Don’t Believe Anything You Read — Yet

2021-03-03 dr. diandra 0

Don’t believe early-season predictions. There is nothing in a 36-race season that can be predicted on the basis of three races. […]

Homestead-Miami

2021 Homestead Race Review

2021-03-01 dr. diandra 1

The 2021 Homestead Race Review focuses on tire fall-off, the fastest cars, and which teams were able to keep up with the track. […]

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}