As part of my dive into what we should expect from the 2020 rookie class, I tallied the tracks at which future champions won their first races. Surprisingly, they weren’t the tracks I expected. Future […]
The ‘Big Three’ drivers who dominated the XFINITY Series last year are now part of what is being called one of the most promising rookie classes in Cup. A very competitive list of free agents […]
We have high expectations for the 2020 NASCAR Rookie class, but I learned one thing we shouldn’t be focusing on: driver age. Since I already made the graphs, I figured I’d show you why I […]
Maybe not anyone can win the Daytona 500, but it turns out that almost anyone can lead it. That’s what the graphs showing the highest and lowest positions reached by each driver during the race […]
We all know — and frequently remind ourselves — that racing will never be 100% safe. That doesn’t stop us from being stunned when it happens. The 2020 Daytona 500 Let’s first give thanks for […]
While some people count down the days until the Daytona 500, I’ve always looked forward to the first day of practice for the Busch Clash. This year, it’s February 8th (at 11:30 EST, if you’re […]
NASCAR drivers have some unique names, but I hadn’t appreciated the full range of names until now. I’m teaching myself Python. Excel has its limitations, especially in pulling together data from long periods of time […]
We all had heard a lot about Kyle Larson’s plans for the “off-season”, so I was wondering how it all turned out. I actually got myself a little confused trying to track down all the […]
Sixty-four drivers in 46 different car numbers ran for 37 full-schedule and 10 limited-schedule teams in 2019. But how did they do? And how does that compare to 2018? In my last post, I examined […]
There are a lot of NASCAR sayings. You know them: one announcer starts and the others all join in. Last weekend at Martinsville, with three cautions in the last 50 laps, it was “cautions breed […]
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