Points

Your Yearly Reminder: It is Too Early To Lose Sleep Over Points

Every year, this blog performs a public service by reminding fans not to lose sleep over points your favorite driver has (or hasn’t) accumulated early in the season. This year, however, there’s a special caveat.

So let’s look at why you shouldn’t panic if your driver is low in points. Also why you shouldn’t feel too confident if your driver is way out ahead […]

Hamlin, Denny
2024 By The Numbers
2024 By The Numbers

2024 Winners: By the Numbers

The NASCAR championship format doesn’t necessarily reward the driver who wins the most races in a season. It’s far more important WHEN a driver wins, as Joey Logano showed this year. […]

2024 By The Numbers
Chris Buescher
Ford Racing
The Phoenix short-track-package testing: Day 1
Aerodynamics

2024 Spring Martinsville Lead Change Preview

The 2024 spring Martinsville lead change preview shows lead-change variations throughout the last three generations of the NASCAR race car. This information provides necessary perspective for understanding this week’s race results. […]

Rain Tires
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. […]