Qualifying for the Daytona 500 is a long, arduous process — and makes surprisingly little difference. At Las Vegas Motor Speedway (our first mile-and-a-half track) qualifying makes more of a difference. If you want to […]
Daytona qualifying is not the most exciting qualifying session of the year. Only two cars lock in their position. It’s a single-car one-lap format, but the lack of drafting is one of the few clues […]
Fifty percent races won at Talladega were won by drivers qualifying from the first two rows. One-third of the winners started from the first row. What does that tell us about where Joey Logano — […]
A fast one-graph summary of data for the XFINITY qualifying stats. Up to 36th position, qualifying times are roughly linear with a slope of 0.056 seconds per position. 1st to 2nd: 0.083 seconds 1st to […]
Okay, it obviously does if you’re one of the cars that fails to make the race. But beyond that- given the huge amount of attention that’s been given to the ’embarrassment’ that was this year’s […]
Engineering is a constant battle of risk versus reward. How much are you willing to challenge your equipment in order to gain speed? […]
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