kkfan91
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So the other day I decided to task myself with a long time consuming task for no reason. I decided to figure out what drivers have been in the most accidents. Because I always feel the need to over do things I decided to turn this into a Lastcar style project. So someday I will have a website with all this information organized better but so far I have completed the stats on crashes for the 2017 Cup Series season. My methodology for this is I count all races, points paying or not. I do not do practice or qualifying because I just don't think I would be able to find that information and this takes long enough to do already. What I consider a crash for a driver is based off of racing references reports for the race. It includes all numbers listed as involved in a caution causing crash, or listed out due to crash damage. If a wreck takes place but is not recorded because the race either ended or was not cause for a caution it is not included.
That being said here are some stats from 2017.
449 incidents
Most was 45 at the fall Talladega race
Fewest was 0 at Watkins Glen
Cole Whitt and Ryan Newman had the fewest wrecks out of full time drivers with 7.
and now listed below with the total number of incidents I counted them with is the full list of the 51 drivers involved with a crash at least once last year. Honestly wasn't that surprised with who popped up as number one.
That being said here are some stats from 2017.
449 incidents
Most was 45 at the fall Talladega race
Fewest was 0 at Watkins Glen
Cole Whitt and Ryan Newman had the fewest wrecks out of full time drivers with 7.
and now listed below with the total number of incidents I counted them with is the full list of the 51 drivers involved with a crash at least once last year. Honestly wasn't that surprised with who popped up as number one.
- Danica Patrick 21
- Kasey Kahne 19
- Erik Jones 17
- Kurt Busch 17
- Trevor Bayne 16
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr 16
- Jimmie Johnson 16
- Dale Earnhardt Jr 14
- Austin Dillon 13
- Clint Bowyer 12
- Daniel Suarez 12
- Ty Dillon 12
- Denny Hamlin 11
- David Ragan 11
- Michael McDowell 11
- Paul Menard 10
- Corey LaJoie 10
- Ryan Blaney 10
- Matt Kenseth 10
- Gray Gaulding 10
- Martin Truex Jr 10
- Kyle Larson 10
- AJ Allmendinger 10
- Landon Cassill 10
- Kyle Busch 9
- Kevin Harvick 9
- Joey Logano 9
- Chase Elliott 9
- Jamie McMurray 9
- Jeffery Earnhardt 9
- Chris Buescher 8
- Aric Almirola 8
- Brad Keselowski 8
- Matt DiBenedetto 8
- Ryan Newman 7
- Cole Whitt 7
- Brendan Gaughan 6
- Reed Sorenson 6
- Joey Gase 6
- Darrell Wallace Jr 3
- DJ Kennington 3
- Ray Black Jr 2
- Elliott Sadler 2
- Brett Moffitt 2
- JJ Yeley 2
- Ryan Sieg 2
- Derrick Cope 2
- Carl Long 1
- Mark Thompson 1
- Cody Ware 1
- Regan Smith 1