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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