A Look at Ricky Stenhouse on Super Speedways
Stenhouse is known for his wrecks, but he's a winning drafter. Is there anything between?
From Talladega's race recap:
Ricky Stenhouse won his fourth career race, each of which has come on a super speedway. Those four wins put him tied for most on the drafting tracks since 2017, when he won his first two — William Byron and Ryan Blaney also have four. He's also been involved in the most cautions over that period: 32, seven more than second-most Kyle Larson's 25. He is a200196 mph bowling ball.
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When not winning or crashing, he's otherwise a pretty middling super speedway driver. Of the 32 drivers with 20 or more starts on drafting tracks since 2017 (such a minimum lets us include newer drivers like Austin Cindric and bygone drivers like Ryan Newman — those who've run all races during that period have 38 starts), he's got the 13th most top tens and the 17th best average finish. He's only finished 63% of his super races, 26th best.
With Lap Raptor, we can look at races where drivers haven't been involved in cautions. 39 drivers have started ten or more super speedway races since 2017 where they were not involved in a caution. Stenhouse has 15. He has the seventh-best average finish. Not too bad. Unfortunately, only two wins under that criteria.