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Graph of The Day: 1/27/20

2020-01-27 dr. diandra 0

We all had heard a lot about Kyle Larson’s plans for the “off-season”, so I was wondering how it all turned out. I actually got myself a little confused trying to track down all the […]

Qualifying Lap Times for Daytona XFINITY Race
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2018 XFINITY Daytona Qualifying

2018-02-17 dr. diandra 0

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 […]

Gordon, Jeff

Did Jeff Gordon Really Start NASCAR’s “Youth Movement”?

2015-11-25 dr. diandra 2

Admit it. You (like me) have sat in front of the television watching pre-race interviews for a Camping World Truck Series race and asked yourself “Is that kid even old enough to drive?” I thought […]

Aerodynamic Forces

Using Drag and Downforce to Tailor Stock Cars to Different Tracks

2015-07-24 dr. diandra 8

Aerodynamics is complicated. Let’s just get that out of the way. But it’s not so complicated that we can’t understand what’s going on with just a little patience. Why 3D? Every wonder why they call […]

Graphs and Charts

A Numbers Geek Looks at Las Vegas

2015-03-04 dr. diandra 1

A couple observations about history at Las Vegas… […]

a scatter plot showing no correlation between starting and finishing positions in the Daytona 500 from 2012-2014
Graphs and Charts

Does Daytona Qualifying Really Matter?

2015-02-20 dr. diandra 6

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 […]

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