Bobby Allison won 5 season finales between 1967 and 1981. Bobby Labonte won 4. Buck Baker, Bill Elliott, Greg Biffle and Joey Logano won 3 each. Homestead hosts the finale on Sunday for the 19th time, its first since 2019.
Chastain, Cindric, Austin Dillon, Wallace and Berry all won a Cup race last year and haven't won this year. Win at Homestead on Sunday or their streaks end. Joey Logano has the longest active streak: a win in 15 straight seasons, since 2012.
Every Cup driver's run of straight winning seasons, Logano's 15 included: turnfourracing.com/cards/x-2…
Denny Hamlin has missed 3 laps in 35 Cup races this year, 2 at Daytona and 1 at Phoenix, and finished on the lead lap in the other 33. Connor Zilisch has missed 1,322, the most of any full-time driver.
Every Cup driver's laps missed this year, from Hamlin to Zilisch: turnfourracing.com/cards/x-2…
Joe Gibbs Racing cars finished top 10 in 80 of 140 starts this year, 57%, the best rate for any team in a Next Gen season. Spire went from 3% in 2022 to 26% in 2026. Trackhouse went the other way, from 47% in 2022 to 19% in 2026.
Gateway ran 35% of its laps under caution, the most of any Cup race this year. Sonoma ran 7%. The season sits at 14.8%, down from 17.3% in 2025. Homestead, the finale on November 8, has run between 10% and 13% under caution in each of its last 4 races.
Caution share for every Cup race this season, Gateway and Sonoma included: turnfourracing.com/cards/x-2…
Denny Hamlin is the only driver to finish ahead of every other Chase driver in over 50% of all races this season, from 54% against Ryan Blaney to 77% against William Byron. Kyle Larson leads the standings and finished ahead of Hamlin in only 40% of the races.
Kyle Larson averaged 41.3 points per race at the 1.5-mile tracks since 2022, the most of this year's regulars, with 7 wins in 35 starts. The season ends at Homestead on November 8, where he averages 47.8 points. Figures are using 2026 points rules.
Every driver's 1.5-mile average and Homestead average, scored the 2026 way: turnfourracing.com/cards/x-2…
The 4 fastest cars on green flag speed at Martinsville finished 1st through 4th, in that exact order: Byron, Elliott, Gibbs and Berry.
How to read the video: it replays the race on green flag speed only. Cars gain or lose position to Byron, the fastest car of the race. He won the real thing too. Elliott was next, 17.3 seconds back on pace. #nascar
William Byron's Martinsville win and where all 37 Cup drivers finished: turnfourracing.com/races/202…
Hendrick Motorsports has won 31 Cup races at Martinsville, the most of any team. Joe Gibbs Racing has 15 and Team Penske has 11. Hendrick cars won 5 of the last 9 Martinsville races, most recently Chase Elliott in March.
Martinsville wins for every driver and team in the field: turnfourracing.com/cards/x-2…
This isn’t a burnout. This is two championship contending teammates getting into each other in the second to last race of the season. #nascar
William Byron puts Kyle Larson a lap down with 1 lap to go in stage 1.
Suarez too, who gets the free pass.
Where are my Chevy conspiracy theorists?
Diecast Giveaway: 1997 Dale Earnhardt Daytona 500 crash car diecast model car.
He flipped on the backstretch with 12 laps to go, climbed out of the ambulance, and drove the wrecked car back to pit road. One year later he won his first Daytona 500.
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