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Thank you! I should have known Bob Pockrass would be on top of that. True, but for statistical purposes, the records will show the #45 winning both races.

I'm wondering if anyone knows the answer to this...both races at a track (Kansas) within a season have been won by the same team (#45) but with 2 different drivers. Has this ever happened before (at least in the modern era)?

I just researched this stat and the results surprised me. This hasn't really changed regardless of the format used. Number of times the driver with the most wins won the championship: 1-Race Playoff [2014-2021]: 3/8 seasons (38%) 10-Race Chase [2004-2013]: 4/10 seasons (40%) Full Season...

There are many other things NASCAR could do to virtually ensure that things come down to the final race. A few ideas: - Stick with season-long points but award double, triple, or even quadruple points for the races towards the end of the season. (The last race is effectively worth 36x more...

...or even worse, one debris caution.

1. About half the time over the last several years and across the top 3 series, a championship has not gone to a driver who truly had a championship-worthy season. On one hand, NASCAR seems to still get what it wants--whether we're happy or not, we're talking about it. Would we have been talking...

Assuming the non-playoff standings shown on RR are correct, Larson would currently have a 17 point lead over Hamlin.

All in all, the playoff result is about as fair as it could be so far. If you rank drivers according to their number of top 5 finishes so far this season, the top 12 are the 12 drivers who remain in the playoffs after Bristol. At the same time, though, we're still being deprived of what would...

I dislike most of the changes NASCAR has made over the last two decades, but continuing to add new tracks is one of the few good decisions they've made. It's good to see the variety of tracks after the schedule had been stagnant for so long. Number of different tracks (or configurations) on the...

All of the drivers who finished among the top 10 in the first and/or second stage ended up finishing in the top 14 at the end of the race. This ties the record set in the spring 2017 race at Atlanta. Ironically, Austin Dillon finished 11th with 0 stage points in both of those races. Never...

He's exactly right. Most of all, I hate it for the drivers themselves. Many have worked for a long time to get where they are, but instead of rewarding things like talent, hard work, and good strategy like NASCAR racing used to do, it's much more of a random circus act now.

In 2014, Allmendinger earned the first (and still, only) Cup win for JTG-Daugherty Racing at Watkins Glen. 7 years later, almost to the day, he has now earned the first Cup win for Kaulig Racing at Indianapolis. Erik Jones (7th) scored his best finish of the season and the best finish for the...

A.J. Allmendinger just accomplished something that hasn't been done outside of Daytona in 35 years--win a race with a part-time team. Only Trevor Bayne (2011 Daytona 500) has won with a part-time team since 1985. A handful of part-time drivers have won since then, but they did so while driving...

That's it exactly. Look at how many comments this race thread has. They have no interest in being fair anymore because "fair" doesn't typically generate discussion. But this does.

Any one of them could in fact win a "championship" under our current format, but I agree that none of them are likely to ever have a true championship-caliber season.