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StatChat 2024 - Bank of America ROVAL 400 at Charlotte


By Adam Carabine


Happy weekend everyone, it’s time for another edition of Stats Saturday. This weekend NASCAR travels to Concord, NC for the Bank of America ROVAL 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway’s road course.

 

The Charlotte Roval is a 2.28-mile-long road course that uses parts of the oval and the infield.  The Roval was first run by NASCAR in 2019 – Ryan Blaney won the inaugural event.

 

Tomorrow’s race will be 109 laps long (for a total of 248.52 miles), with stage breaks occurring at 25 – 50 – 109.  Pit road speed is 40 mph, and the caution vehicle runs at 45 mph. 

 

This year, the NASCAR Cup Series has run 8,289 laps, for 11,106.84 miles so far this season.  No driver has completed 100% of them, but Daniel Hemric is the closest, having driven 99.36% of them. 

 

Top 5 Career Average Finishers at the Charlotte Roval:

Alex Bowman

6.40 over 5 races

Tyler Reddick

7.00 over 4 races

Chase Elliott

8.17 over 6 races (2 wins)

Joey Logano

8.67 over 6 races

Ryan Blaney

10.17 over 6 races (1 win)

 

Bottom 5 Career Average Finishers at the Charlotte Roval:

JH Nemechek

36.00 over 1 race

Zane Smith

30.00 over 1 race

Daniel Hemric

28.00 over 2 races

Daniel Suarez

27.00 over 6 races

Todd Gilliland

26.50 over 2 races

 

The Charlotte Roval is a Road Course

 

Top 5 Career Average Finishers at Road Courses:

Chase Elliott

8.25 over 34 races (7 wins)

Tyler Reddick

10.99 over 25 races (3 wins)

Chris Buescher

13.03 over 36 races (1 win)

Ty Gibbs

14.11 over 13 races

Kyle Busch

14.58 over 57 races (4 wins)

 

Bottom 5 Career Average Finishers at Road Courses:

Daniel Hemric

26.30 over 8 races

Ryan Preece

25.69 over 22 races

Harrison Burton

23.64 over 16 races

Corey LaJoie

23.24 over 29 races

Bubba Wallace

23.20 over 31 races

 

With the Charlotte Roval being fairly new on the NASCAR schedule, The winningest driver is just Chase Elliott, who is the only driver to have won it twice. 

 

Notable drivers who have not won at the Charlotte Roval:

Kyle Busch

(has won at 24 other tracks)

Denny Hamlin

(has won at 19 other tracks)

Joey Logano

(has won at 19 other tracks)

Brad Keselowski

(has won at 17 other tracks)

Martin Truex Jr.

(has won at 16 other tracks)

 

No driver has scored their first Cup Series win at the Charlotte Roval.

 

Based on average finish, no drivers list the Charlotte Roval as their BEST or WORST track.  

 

Based on their point pace, let’s have a look at how this season is comparing to last season for drivers:

 

Drivers Faring Better than in 2023

Noah Gragson

+432 pts (incomplete 2023 season)

Chase Elliott

+310 pts (incomplete 2023 season)

Alex Bowman

+223 pts

Ty Gibbs

+203 pts

Chase Briscoe

+128 pts

 

Drivers Faring Worse than in 2023

William Byron

-176 pts

Martin Truex Jr.

-159 pts

Kyle Busch

-146 pts

Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

-126 pts

Erik Jones

-115 pts

 

While some drivers may be doing better this year than they did in 2023, how does this year stack up against their entire career?  This statistic does not include rookies, as this is their first full year in the Cup Series.

 

Drivers Having their BEST Career Year

Tyler Reddick

12.52

Ty Gibbs

14.65

Bubba Wallace

15.68

Todd Gilliland

20.52

Ryan Preece

20.77

 

Drivers Having their WORST Career Year

Harrison Burton

26.29

Justin Haley

22.87

Erik Jones

22.69

Austin Dillon

22.06

 

Here is the current battle for Rookie of the Year:

Carson Hocevar

579

Josh Berry

491

Zane Smith

442

Kaz Grala

176

 

The Manufacturer Standings are calculated by awarding points to the highest finisher for each manufacturer according to their finishing position.  (40 for 1st, 35 for 2nd, 34 for 3rd, etc.)  No stage points or playoff points count.

 

Manufacturer Standings        

Chevrolet

1134

Ford

1087

Toyota

1084

 

Here is the same formula, but used on a team-vs-team basis:

 

Chartered Team Standings

Hendrick

1047

Joe Gibbs

1026

23XI

921

RFK

899

Penske

867

Trackhouse

854

Stewart-Haas

830

RCR

729

Spire

714

Front Row

637

Kaulig

570

Rick Ware

543

Legacy Motor Club

527

JTG-Daugherty

470

Wood Bros

344

 

At each stage break, the Top 10 drivers are awarded points based on their finishing positions.  Here are the leaders this year:

 

Stage Point Leaders

Kyle Larson

285

Denny Hamlin

254

Ryan Blaney

234

Christopher Bell

213

William Byron

212

Martin Truex Jr.

209

Tyler Reddick

186

Chase Elliott

184

Alex Bowman

149

Joey Logano

146

 

Milestone Watch

Chase Elliott

Looking for his 20th Career Win

Christopher Bell

Looking for his 10th Career Win

Alex Bowman

Looking for his 40th Career Top 5

Austin Dillon

Looking for his 80th Career Top 10

Kyle Larson

Looking for his 180th Career Top 10

William Byron

Looking for his 100th Career Top 10

 

Here are the top 10 longest active winless streaks:

 

Winless Streaks

Justin Haley

136 races

Erik Jones

76 races

Bubba Wallace

74 races

Kyle Busch

52 races

Martin Truex Jr.

47 races

Michael McDowell

43 races

Daniel Suarez

29 races

William Byron

23 races

Chase Elliott

22 races

Denny Hamlin

20 races

 

The race begins Sunday, October 13th at 2:00 pm EST (11:00 am PST) – Enjoy the race everyone!

 

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Is there an error? Is there a stat missing that you’d like to see? Let us know!

 

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