2024 By The Numbers
2024 Completion Rates: By the Numbers
The total NASCAR schedule, including overtimes and shortened races, added up to 126,449.9 miles and 9,744 laps. But no driver actually ran every mile or every lap. […]
DNFs
DNFs
2021 DNFs: NASCAR by the Numbers
There were 181 DNFs in 2021, down slightly from 2020. Let’s dive into who and where the DNFs happened — and why. […]
Car Parts
Car Failures and DNFs
Car failures that knock a car out of a race have gone down over time. But not, perhaps, the way you might expect […]
Cooling
Does Qualifying Matter at Talladega?
50% of races won at Talladega are won by drivers starting from the first two rows. Can you win if you don’t qualify well? […]
DNFs
Toyota Engines: By The Numbers
There are somewhere in the vicinity of 840 parts in a NASCAR Sprint Cup Engine (at least the Chevy version and yes, I am taking someone’s word for this. I did not have time to […]