With the 2023 NASCAR Cup Collection season now within the rear-view mirror, it is time to check out the stats that inform the story of the yr. Listed below are the issues to know from Ryan Blaney’s title-winning season.
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Ryan Blaney is the third driver within the final 4 seasons to win his first Cup Collection title. Since Jimmie Johnson gained his sixth title in 2013, eight drivers have gained championships (together with Johnson in 2016).
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Blaney’s eight top-five finishes are the fewest of any Cup Collection champion in NASCAR’s fashionable period (1972-present). The earlier low for a champion was Tony Stewart’s 9 high fives in 2011.
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William Byron led the Cup Collection with six wins. It is the second straight season that only one driver had 5 or extra wins.
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Byron and Kyle Larson had probably the most top-five finishes with 15 apiece. Solely eight drivers had 10 or extra high fives.
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Eight drivers had no less than 10 top-five finishes. All eight scored a victory.
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Byron led the Cup Collection with 21 top-10 finishes. He was the one driver to have greater than 20 high 10s. It’s the primary time since 1992 that a number of drivers didn’t have no less than 20 top-10 finishes.
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Brad Keselowski completed eighth within the standings and was tops amongst winless drivers. Blaney completed eighth a season in the past and was additionally the highest-ranked winless driver. Simply saying.
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Byron led the Cup Collection with a mean end of eleventh. Chris Buescher was second at 12.1.
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Blaney’s common end was seventh amongst full-time Cup Collection drivers (Chase Elliott included) at 14.1.
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Elliott gained a mean of 4.2 positions per race. Each Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Corey LaJoie gained 4 spots per race.
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Christopher Bell led the Cup Collection with a mean beginning place of 9.6. Denny Hamlin and Tyler Reddick tied for second at 10.2. Reddick misplaced 5.5 spots per race, whereas Bell misplaced 3.3 positions per race and Hamlin solely misplaced 2.2.
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Bell led the Cup Collection with six pole positions. Fifteen drivers obtained no less than one pole in 2023 and eight had a number of pole positions.
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LaJoie was the one driver who completed each race. Buescher and Kevin Harvick completed all however one race.
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Buescher led the Cup Collection with 32 lead-lap finishes. Keselowski, his Roush Fenway teammate, was second at 31.
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Buescher additionally accomplished probably the most miles within the Cup Collection at 12,480.04.
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Amongst drivers who competed in all 36 races, Austin Dillon had probably the most DNFs. Dillon failed to complete 10 races in 2023.
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These DNFs contributed to the worst season of Dillon’s profession. He completed twenty ninth within the Cup Collection standings. His earlier worst season got here in 2019 when he was twenty first.
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Bubba Wallace completed a career-best tenth within the factors standings after making the playoffs for the primary time.
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Ty Dillon scored the fewest factors of any driver who competed in all 36 races. Dillon averaged simply 10.1 factors per race. Elliott completed seventeenth within the standings and was the highest non-playoff driver. Elliott averaged 28.3 factors per race.
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Todd Gilliland was the one driver to compete in all 36 races and never lead a lap. Gilliland, Dillon and Harrison Burton have been the one full-time drivers to not rating a top-five end.
