People often cite the number of lead changes in a race — the lead change metric — and suggest that a big number means a good race. The metric is simple, easy to get and elegant in a fundamental way.
It’s also misleading. […]
Pit road performance always plays a huge role at Darlington Raceway. Equally important is how well a team can recover from a pit-road glitch. The latter played a huge role in Christopher Bell’s win tonight. […]
NASCAR has a new stage-break rule after fan frustration over large numbers of caution laps. One reason for that frustration is because the lengths of cautions are going up. That, in part at least, is because softer tires shed more rubber and necessitate more cleanup. […]
The 2026 New Hampshire practice prospects come from a single 50-minute practice session where all drivers participated and teams had two sets of tires. […]
With the threat of rain looming, here are a few things to watch for the 2026 New Hampshire NASCAR race. […]
If you read my long-ago book The Physics of NASCAR, you know that the team I embedded with was Ray Evernham’s No. 19, driven by Elliott Sadler. Richmond reminded me that it’s almost 20 years since I did the research for that book. Elliott’s homecoming of sorts completed a circle for him — and for me. […]
Much talk this week about lack of passing at Indy and whether NASCAR a) should be racing there only with a different car and b) should be racing there at all. Let’s insert some actual data into the discussion. […]
With five races left in the regular season, I’m thinking about The Chase a lot. I’m wondering who is going to earn that top seed and the 100 extra points to start The Chase with. Coming in second puts you at a 25-point deficit before you’ve even run a race. […]
The 2025 North Wilkesboro Race Report is a picture of domination by Joe Logano. Logano led 323 of the race’s 450 laps to win the first points-paying race at the track in 30 years. Let’s see how he did it. […]
The 2026 Atlanta II race report questions whether Atlanta is still, well… Atlanta. All of the race hallmarks are very different from what we’ve seen before. […]
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