Racing
2021 NASCAR Preview: Short Tracks
I saved my favorite kind of racing for last. Everyone’s talking about road courses this year, but short tracks make up a third of the circuits in the season. So, before we pull all the […]
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2021 NASCAR Preview: ‘Other’ Tracks
Fontana (the old Fontana), Pocono, Indy and Michigan are larger than intermediate tracks, but not superspeedways. The number of such tracks is going way down in 2021, which means that drivers who did well at […]
Racing
2021 NASCAR Preview: Best Drivers at Intermediate Tracks
There are fewer intermediate tracks on the 2021 NASCAR schedule than at any time since 2000. But they still make up a quarter of the schedule. We’ve looked at superspeedways and road courses already. Let’s […]
Road Courses
How Does Having Seven Road Courses in 2021 Change the Championship Race?
Once upon a time, road courses were the least popular type of racing among NASCAR fans — and also among many drivers. But that’s changed. And it’ll change even more given that there are seven […]
Racing
Which NASCAR Drivers are Best at Superspeedways?
If asked who the best superspeedway driver was, most NASCAR fans would say Dale Earnhardt. But what do the numbers say? This post is part of a preseason series on how the 2021 NASCAR schedule […]
Schedules
The NASCAR 2021 Schedule
The NASCAR Cup Series will run at a very different distribution of tracks in 2021 than in any year past. Here’s the first in a series of posts looking at schedule changes and how they […]
Talladega Superspeedway
2020 NASCAR by Numbers: The Drivers
Although Santa’s making a list, we here at Building Speed are also in the list-making mode. In the third part of this seemingly never-ending series, we examine at how individual drivers fared in 2020. Please […]
Statistics
NASCAR by the Numbers 2020: Penalties
Penalties can make or break a driver’s race — or season — so here’s a look at all the penalties assessed in 2020, who got them and when. We’ll investigate all three types of penalties: […]
Talladega Superspeedway
NASCAR by the Numbers, 2020 Edition, Part 1
Hard to believe it’s already time for NASCAR by the Numbers, isn’t it? With another season in the record books (and what a year it was!) it’s time to look at what the numbers say […]
NASCAR XFINITY Series
Racing in the Rain
The NASCAR XFINITY race at Charlotte Motor Speedway — aka the Roval in the Rain — prompted some fans to suggest NASCAR ought to be able to race anywhere in the rain. But ‘can’ and […]