Drivers
Elite Drivers After Their Last Wins
@KudzuCarl read my article for NBC Sports about how many races elite drivers ran after their last win. He suggested using finishing position as a metric, which is a great idea. […]
The Building Speed Blog
Busch, Kyle
Graph of the Day: Kyle Busch’s Career Finish Spectrum
Today’s graph of the day shows every one of Kyle Busch’s finishes in a single graphic. […]
2022
More-Experienced Drivers Fared Worse with the Next Gen Car: Season Rankings
From the start of the 2022 season, veteran NASCAR Cup Series drivers fared worse with the Next Gen car much more than their less-experienced counterparts. Some drivers, like Denny Hamlin, seemed to come to grips with the car in the later portions of the season. Others didn’t. […]
2022
2022 Cautions by Race and Type
Some races have more cautions than others. Find out how many cautions — and of what type — happened the in 2022 NASCAR Cup Series schedule […]
2022
2022 Penalties by Team and Race
Detailed information about penalties by team and by race for the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series
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2022
The 2022 Championship 4: By The Numbers
I wrote a more detailed analysis of the Championship 4 for NBC Sports. I covered Joey Logano and Chase Elliott in one post, and then Ross Chastain and Christopher Bell in the other. (Link to […]
The Chase/The Playoffs
2022 Playoff Drivers and Green-Flag Speed
In my NBC Sports piece this Sunday, I use average green-flag speed ranking. But there’s quite a bit to be learned by digging down past just the average […]
2022
2022 Texas Graph of the Race
Dr. Diandra presents the 2022 Texas Graph of the Race: The one graph that sums up the most salient feature of this particular race. […]
Kansas
My Kansas Predictions Revisited
Over on NBC Sports, I made Kansas predictions using only 2022 data. So here’s a table comparing my algorithm’s prediction in the leftmost columns and drivers’ actual finish positions in the right. I colored my […]
Accidents
Counting Accidents
Counting accidents using only NASCAR’s caution statistics misses a lot of incidents that affect drivers’ finishes. […]