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NASCAR's premier racing division, the NASCAR Cup Series, has seen many close finishes since the electronic scoring system was instituted in May during the 1993 season. As of 2024, the closest margin of victory in the NASCAR Cup Series is 0.001 seconds at the 2024 AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway , as Kyle Larson crossed the finish line ...
A driver who has only driven on 3 different racetracks but has won on all 3 racetracks has a better ranking than a driver who competed on 4 racetracks and also achieved at least one victory on 3 racetracks. The absolute number of race wins is not decisive, so it does not matter whether a driver has 1 or more wins on a particular racetrack.
The Drivers' Championship was first awarded in 1949 to Red Byron. [1] The first driver to win multiple Championships was Herb Thomas in 1951 and 1953. The current Drivers' Champion is Joey Logano, who won his third NASCAR Cup Series championship in 2024. [2] The NASCAR points system has undergone several incarnations since its initial ...
Despite failing to make the Championship 4, Buescher finished a career-best seventh in the points standings, with 3 wins, 9 top fives, 17 top tens, and an average finish of 12.2, all career highs. Buescher started the 2024 season with an 18th-place finish at the 2024 Daytona 500 .
Byron led the Cup Series with an average finish of 11th. Chris Buescher was second at 12.1. Blaney’s average finish was seventh among full-time Cup Series drivers (Chase Elliott included) at 14.1.
Kyle Miyata Larson (born July 31, 1992) is an American professional racing driver, currently competing full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 5 Chevrolet ZL1 for Hendrick Motorsports, and part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 17 Chevrolet Camaro for Hendrick Motorsports.
In 36 races, Patrick scored 716 points, placing her 24th in the drivers' standings, the highest of her career. She had two top-ten finishes, an average finish of 23.5, and failed to finish four times. [129] Patrick had signed a multi-year contract which allowed her to stay at Stewart-Haas Racing for 2016. [130]
Logano was consistently near the top of most major statistical categories in 2014 including; laps led, average start, average finish, and average driver rating. He was one of only seven drivers that won multiple races in 2014 (the others being Keselowski, Jimmie Johnson , Jeff Gordon , Dale Earnhardt Jr. , series champion Kevin Harvick , and ...