The NASCAR Xfinity Series returns to action this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee with the seventh race of the 2018 season, the Fitzgerald Gilder Kits 300.
Here’s a quick look at some interesting statistics and tidbits heading into the weekend.
- This is the 72nd Xfinity Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway. The third-ever Xfinity Series race, in 1982, was won by Phil Parsons.
- Kyle Busch leads all drivers in Xfinity Series victories at Bristol with nine, including two streaks of three consecutive victories. Busch is the most recent race winner at Bristol, having won the 2017 fall race.
- Overall, 44 drivers have won an Xfinity Series race at Bristol. Austin Dillon became the 44th driver to win at the track when he won the second race in 2016.
- Ryan Blaney is the last Xfinity Series regular to win at Bristol, in 2014. Blaney is now competing fulltime in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series.
- Chevrolet has won 31 of 71 Xfinity Series races at Bristol. Toyota has won 11 of the last 15 races at the track, including both races in 2017. Ford has nine victories, followed by Pontiac (six), Oldsmobile (six), Buick (five) and Dodge (three).
- The polesitter has won the Xfinity Series race at Bristol on 11 occasions, most recently last summer with Kyle Busch behind the wheel.
- Kevin Harvick won from the furthest back of any driver, 38th, in the 2005 spring race, while Brad Keselowski came from 37th to win the 2008 summer race. Six of 71 winners have come from outside the top 20 starting positions.
- Drivers who have led the most laps in an Xfinity Series race at Bristol have gone on to win that race 39 out of 71 races, though only twice in the last eight races.
- Joey Logano holds the record for most laps led in an race at Bristol, when he led all 300 laps in the 2015 spring race. Also notable was Kyle Busch’s 268 laps led in the 2011 summer race.
- Kyle Larson holds the record for most laps led in a race at Bristol without winning, when he led 200 laps of the 2016 summer race en route to finishing third.
- David Green led only the final lap of the 1994 spring race, the only time a driver led only the final lap of an Xfinity Series race at Bristol. The winner of the race at Bristol has led 20 laps or less on 10 occasions, and 10 laps or less on four occasions. Austin Dillon is the most recent Bristol winner to lead less than 10 laps of the race he won, when he led only four laps in the 2016 summer race.
- Six drivers have won races this season: Tyler Reddick, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Larson, Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano and Ryan Blaney. Reddick is the only Xfinity Series regular of that group.
- There have been 11 consecutive Xfinity Series races in which a different driver has won a race, dating back to the 2017 fall race at Charlotte Motor Speedway: Alex Bowman, Christopher Bell, Erik Jones, William Byron, Cole Custer, Tyler Reddick, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Larson, Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano and Ryan Blaney.
- Kyle Busch is the last driver to win back-to-back races in the Xfinity Series, triumphing last July at Kentucky Speedway and New Hampshire Motor Speedway in consecutive weekends.
- Points leader Elliott Sadler leads the series in top fives (four; tied with Christopher Bell), top 10s (six) and laps completed (1,055). He has finished in the top 10 in 14 of the last 15 races, though he hasn’t won a race since 2016, when he won at Kentucky Speedway.
- Justin Allgaier leads all drivers in top threes (three).
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