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2022

2022 Penalties by Team and Race

2022-11-16 dr. diandra 0

Detailed information about penalties by team and by race for the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series
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A pie chart showing the reasons for which cars were sent to the back for all races in 2021
Penalties

2021 To The Back: NASCAR by the Numbers

2021-12-08 dr. diandra 0

Our 2021 to-the-back roundup honors those teams that managed to incur penalties before the green flag. Let’s look at who got their knuckles slapped by NASCAR this year. […]

2021 penalties incurred by crew shown as a pie chart separating out the different types of penalties
Penalties

2021 Penalties

2021-12-02 dr. diandra 2

2021 penalties were down, but let’s take a deep dive into how and why, including how the change in schedule impacted penalties. […]

Drivers

NASCAR Numbers 2019: Part 2 — The Drivers

2019-12-20 dr. diandra 5

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 […]

Penalties

NASCAR’s Penalty Box: Uncontrolled Tires

2019-07-26 dr. diandra 4

NASCAR changed the ‘arms-length uncontrolled-tire penalty’ after pressure from fans and drivers who complained that the rule was too subjective. Does the new rule solve those penalty problems? Does NASCAR Need an Uncontrolled Tire Rule? […]

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. […]

Drivers

Do Less-Experienced NASCAR Drivers Get More In-Race Penalties?

2018-11-09 dr. diandra 10

NASCAR has assessed 376 in-race penalties after 34 races. Do less-experienced drivers make more of these mistakes? Let’s check the data. […]

Building Cars

NASCAR’s Laser Inspection Process: Confidence and Accuracy

2016-09-23 dr. diandra 4

There Will Be Rules… The last time I was at the R&D Center, I was given a copy of the official NASCAR rule book for 1948. It was about a quarter of a page. Now there’s […]

Digital Dashboard

Is Stricter Enforcement of Pit Road Speed Limits Making Pit Road Less Safe?

2016-09-02 dr. diandra 1

The Purpose of Pit Road Speed Limits NASCAR implemented pit road speeding rules in 1991. The year before, Mike Rich, a tire changer for Bill Elliott, had been pinned between Elliott’s car and the car of Ricky Rudd when […]

Collisions

NASCAR Drivers’ Risky Behavior and the Peltzman Effect

2015-11-06 dr. diandra 1

The introduction of automotive safety innovations is usually accompanied by concern about the side-effects of those innovations. For example, when seat belts were introduced, people worried that the belts would keep them from getting out […]

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