Race Recap
Stat Pack Recap: 2024 Cup Series ROVAL 400
Kyle Larson won and is the championship favorite as things stand after this tepid race.
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Go Grant Enfinger
A post of appreciation for a truck series great.
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A Look at Ricky Stenhouse on Super Speedways
Stenhouse is known for his wrecks, but he's a winning drafter. Is there anything between?
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Does average running position matter on super speedways?
Not really.
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The Haley-LaJoie Trade
Spire swapped Corey Lajoie to Rick Ware Racing for Justin Haley. How will they make out?
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Nick Sanchez Joins Big Machine Racing
He brings a solid track record to an up-and-coming team.
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23XI Sticks with Bubba Wallace
The two-time Cup winner has signed a two-year extension with the Denny Hamlin / Michael Jordan team.
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Shane van Gisbergen to Cup in 2025
SvG will run in Trackhouse's #88 full-time in NASCAR's Cup series next season. He's been dominant on road courses, but is he ready for the highest level?
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High in the Custerdome
Cole Custer will be back in the Cup Series with the new Haas Factory Team. What can we expect?
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Chase Briscoe to JGR
Chase Briscoe has signed with Joe Gibbs Racing. He'll be taking over the #19 from the outgoing Martin Truex Jr. What is JGR getting?
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McDowell to Spire
McDowell will give Spire a steady hand – is that enough?
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Troubles at SHR
Rumors abound of Stewart-Haas Racing considering selling charters. Owner Tony Stewart began the season by publicly calling out his team's performance. What is SHR in the post-Kevin Harvick era, and what should they do about it?
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Drivers and crew chiefs
Yesterday I wrote: Perhaps all we can say is that if cars within the same team have similar average starts, running positions, and finishes, they're likely on similar setups - as you'd expect. I take this as vindication for PFAE: if cars within the same team
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The diff4ence between the SHR cars
During the Martinsville broadcast, Parker Kilgerman relayed information he heard speaking to the Rodney Childers, the crew chief of the Stewart-Haas Racing #4 car: SHR's 10, 14, and 41 cars all use the same setup for races, whereas the 4 uses a setup personalized to its driver, Kevin
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On the relationship between starting and finishing position in NASCAR
The chart above shows that a gain of one starting position, be it by lineup formula or qualifying, results in a half position gain in average finish. This is an aggregate across the last six years of NASCAR’s three national touring series (Cup, Xfinity, and Trucks, for the recreational
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Martinsville falloff through the years
There's been quite a bit of discussion about the universally panned, utterly uneventful 2022 spring Martinsville Cup race, particularly about the tires. Check out the below links to the lap time graphs of the POMS leaders from the last three years' spring Martinsville races: * 2022 William Byron: