2025 Season
2025 Michigan Race Report
The 2025 Michigan Race Report features a black-hat winner and several drivers whose finishes do not reflect how well they ran. Let’s get to it. […]
Tracks
Accidents
How Many Cars are Saved by Eliminating Practice at Superspeedways?
NASCAR elected not to hold practice at superspeedways with the goal of decreasing the number of backup cars and repairs required, thus cutting costs for owners. Now that we’ve had a few years of this format, I wondered how many cars this policy has saved. […]
2025 Season
2025 Atlanta I: Top Finish Rates by Driver
Trying to choose your fantasy lineup? Here’s a guide to who’s been good at Atlanta […]
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. […]
Martinsville Speedway
A Year of Short-Track Tire Experiments: What We’ve Learned and What it Means for Martinsville
After a year of short-track tire experiments aimed at solving the Gen-7 car’s deficiencies at short tracks, what have we learned? And how will that knowledge affect the penultimate race of the season at Martinsville this weekend as six drivers compete for the last two spots in the Championship 4? […]
Homestead-Miami
2024 Homestead Race Report
he 2024 Homestead race report features a record number of lead changes and a last-lap pass that catapulted Tyler Reddick into the Championship 4. […]
Charlotte Roval
Charlotte Motor Speedway Lowers Roval Turtles
Charlotte Motor Speedway modified the Roval turtles after driver complaints about cars landing hard the frontstretch chicane. […]
Bristol Motor Speedway
2024 Bristol II Race Report
The 2024 Bristol II Race Report contains a lot of Kyle Larson. A lot. Larson dominated by leading 92.4% of all laps run. […]
Chris Buescher
2024 Watkins Glen Race Report
The 2024 Watkins Glen Race Report features Chris Buescher out-dueling road course master Shane van Gisbergen in a last-lap battle for the win. […]
Corey LaJoie
2024 Summer Daytona Race Report
The 2024 summer Daytona race report features an upset to the playoff race, bad luck for the regular-season title contenders and a lot of carnage. […]