2024 By The Numbers
2024 Average Finishes: By the Numbers
The 2024 average finishes data show that a number of drivers finished much further back in the standings than their records might indicate. […]
The Building Speed Blog
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
2024 Completion Rates: By the Numbers
The total NASCAR schedule, including overtimes and shortened races, added up to 126,449.9 miles and 9,744 laps. But no driver actually ran every mile or every lap. […]
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. […]
2024 By The Numbers
2024 Laps and Miles: By The Numbers
Building Speed’s 2024 By The Numbers feature starts with a look at the Laps and Miles run in 2024. The big story in that department this year was the weather. Despite Mother Nature dissing stock cars, we managed to get in a surprising portion of the scheduled racing. […]
Goodyear
2024 Martinsville II Practice: What to Watch
The 2024 Martinsville II Practice is the first and only shot teams have to understand the new tires before the race to determine the Championship 4. […]
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. […]
Rules
Why NASCAR Needs to Update its Race Technology
The latest unforced error in the officiating of Charlotte Motor Speedway’s Roval shows that NASCAR needs to update its race technology. […]