Mark Martin – Earlier this year Mark Martin was one slight bump away from his first win at Pocono. He’s been a bridesmaid finisher 6 times here. Martin’s car was strong for the duration of the race in June. He started in 6th, had an average running position of 6th and ran in the top [...]
Greg Biffle – Greg Biffle has a streak of four straight top 8 finishes at Indy. This feat is matched by no other. In these four races he has the fourth best driver rating (104.5), the third best average running position (8.8) and the best average finish (5.5). Last season Biffle finished 7th but his [...]
Greg Biffle – Greg Biffle has a streak of four straight top 8 finishes at Indy. This feat is matched by no other. In these four races he has the fourth best driver rating (104.5), the third best average running position (8.8) and the best average finish (5.5). Last season Biffle finished 7th but his [...]
Ryan Newman – Ryan Newman got his first win at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in 2002. Since then he’s reached victory lane two more times including last July’s race. One interesting fact about his last two New Hampshire wins is that in both races he beat Tony Stewart for the victory. In 20 races at [...]
Ryan Newman – Ryan Newman had a tough Daytona 500. On lap #13 he had a flat tire and spun out. He then came down to pit road only to have a loose tire roll off his car following a pit stop bringing him to a dead halt on pit road. Allmendinger got the worst [...]
Ryan Newman – Ryan Newman hasn’t had a good performance on an intermediate track since March. Last year at Kentucky Newman finished 4th but by no means was he that good. Around lap 100 Kyle Busch lapped him during a long green flag run. His average running position was 18th and he only ran 29.6% [...]
Kurt Busch – Last year Kurt Busch had a dominant performance in the Toyota Save Mart 350. He led 76 laps and had the best driver rating (142.6). His margin of victory over Jeff Gordon was 2.7 seconds. His strength was that he was really fast over long runs. Road courses are “skill tracks” and [...]
Kevin Harvick – Harvick won at Michigan in August 2010. What stands out about his win is that it’s his only top ten finish at MIS in the last six races. His typical result at Michigan is a low double digit figure. In his twenty-two races here he’s finished between 10th and 20th on eleven [...]
Martin Truex Jr. – Truex is always fast at his home track but it seems like trouble finds him all to often here. I would consider him a high risk / high reward driver in the FedEx 400. He could easily look like he has the car to beat and end up with a 30th [...]
Jeff Gordon – Don’t look for T-Rex to come out of it’s grave for this race. With all of trouble Jeff Gordon has had this year and the wild nature of this race I really don’t like the #24 this week. Drivers will do crazy things in this race and on cue Jeff Gordon will [...]
Ryan Newman - Newman has finished in the top ten at Darlington in six of the last seven races. Since his career started his worst “natural finish” is 14th. All of his bad finishes can be attributed to kill switch problems (led 120 laps in that race), engine problems and accidents. I know I really like [...]
Jeff Burton - Burton’s been pretty sporty at Talladega. Since 2008 he has the best driver rating at this wild car track. In this select group of races he’s finished in the top twelve in five of the last eight races. In the 2011 fall race Burton was leading coming to the white flag but teammate Clint Bowyer passed [...]
Carl Edwards – Edwards currently has a four race top ten streak at Richmond. The only other driver who has an active streak this long is Kyle Busch. Last fall Edwards finished 2nd and led over a quarter of the race (113 laps). At Phoenix earlier this year Edwards looked lost for much of the [...]
Martin Truex Jr. - Truex’s best finish at Kansas was in his first race back in 2006 (11th). Since then he hasn’t finished in the top fifteen and his average finish is 28.8. Treux is a good qualifier at Kansas (started 8th twice last year) but his overall track record is terrible. Treux has been good [...]
