2024 By The Numbers

2024 Where and When: By The Numbers

Building Speed’s 2024 By The Numbers feature continues with Part II: Where and When. The end of a season is not just a time to look back at the last year, but also to look for trends over the years. This report shows a lot of changes. […]

2024 By The Numbers

2024 Laps and Miles: By The Numbers

Building Speed’s 2024 By The Numbers feature starts with a look at the Laps and Miles run in 2024. The big story in that department this year was the weather. Despite Mother Nature dissing stock cars, we managed to get in a surprising portion of the scheduled racing. […]

Rules
The Chase/The Playoffs

There is No Such Thing as a Cutoff Line in NASCAR

Three spots remain in the playoffs. If there’s a new winner at Darlington, only two drivers will make it in on points. Everyone talks about the race in terms of a cutoff line. Except it doesn’t exist. […]

Nashville Superspeedway

2024 Nashville Practice Report

The 2024 Nashville Practice Report features a fast Ty Gibbs, only two Chevys in the top-10 single-lap practice times, and a good showing from Ford. But don’t rely on a simple inspection of the practice list for your picks! […]

Qualifying

NASCAR Changes Qualifying Rules — Again

NASCAR changes qualifying rules for a second time this year. The first change happened at the start of the season. I wrote about it for NBC Sports. Four months later, they made another change. Let’s […]

Cautions

2024 Iowa Race Report

The 2024 Iowa race report has some edgy tires, a disaster for both Kyles and the first win of the season for defending champion Ryan Blaney. So let’s get to it! Caution- and Lead-O-Gram We […]

Timing and Scoring

Photo-Finish Technology

Photo-finish technology has spawned a handful of articles on how NASCAR determined the winner in a 0.001 second margin of victory at Kansas. I thought I understood the technology, but it turns out I hadn’t quite entirely gotten it. […]

Blaney, Ryan

More Practice Could Help Improve the Next Gen Car

When I started writing about NASCAR in 2007, drivers usually practiced Friday morning in preparation for that afternoon’s qualifying. Two Saturday practices gave them time to dial in their car for Sunday’s race. […]

2024 NASCAR Rules

NASCAR Changes Crew Glove Rules

Crew glove-rule changes are the most significant of the rules changes provided to the press on March 13th. That change formalizes and narrows NASCAR’s start-of-the-season crackdown. […]