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2022

2022 Cautions by Race and Type

2022-11-24 dr. diandra 0

Some races have more cautions than others. Find out how many cautions — and of what type — happened the in 2022 NASCAR Cup Series schedule […]

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Are NASCAR Caution Lengths Increasing?

2021-05-13 dr. diandra 6

Do cautions get longer at the ends of races in the hopes of causing green-white-checkers finishes? […]

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How Often Are There Cautions in the Last 10 Laps of a Race?

2021-04-09 dr. diandra 1

Every week, someone suggests that NASCAR manufactures cautions in the last 10 laps of a race. So I got to wondering: How often are there cautions in the last 10 laps of a race? And why? […]

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Phoenix Spring Race: Cautions

2020-03-03 dr. diandra 0

All eyes are on Phoenix this week, not only for the spring race, but also to glean clues as to what we should expect in terms of cautions and lead changes when we return in […]

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Cautions at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

2020-02-22 dr. diandra 0

Should we expect a lot cautions for tomorrow’s race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway? Or will we get a lot of long green-flag runs? Let’s look at what’s happened in the past. Cautions Las Vegas […]

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Cautions and Yellow-Flag Lead Changes

2020-01-28 dr. diandra 2

Lead changes are frequently used as a way to measure how ‘good’ the racing is. But yellow-flag lead changes aren’t all that exciting. Even worse, they skew the statistics because a race with a lot […]

Aerodynamics

One NASCAR Rules Package for All Tracks?

2020-01-14 dr. diandra 6

NASCAR wants to cut costs for teams by developing a rules package that, with minimal tweaking, provides good racing at any track. The 2019 rules package met with mixed results. Races were mostly better at […]

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Do Cautions Breed Cautions?

2019-11-01 dr. diandra 2

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 […]

Busch, Kurt

NASCAR 2018: The Year in Charts and Graphs

2018-12-21 dr. diandra 6

This is the time of the year when everyone takes one final look back at the last year before turning to think about the new one. So, in this last blog of the year, I thought I’d summarize the season in charts and graphs. […]

Busch, Kurt

Cautions are Down in 2018: Are NASCAR Drivers Getting Better at Avoiding Accidents?

2018-12-07 dr. diandra 10

NASCAR Cautions are down again in 2018. Is this due to stage racing? The damaged vehicle policy? Or are drivers just getting better and having fewer accidents? […]

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