The NASCAR Xfinity Series continues action this weekend at Dover International Speedway in Delaware, with the 10th race of the 2018 season, the OneMain Financial 200.
Here’s a quick look at some interesting statistics and tidbits heading into the race.
- This is the 69th Xfinity Series race at Dover International Speedway. Joe Ruttman won the first race at Dover in 1982, driving a Pontiac.
- Kyle Busch leads all drivers in Xfinity series victories at Dover with five. Joey Logano is second with four victories, all in succession, sweeping the 2012 and 2013 races. Todd Bodine and Carl Edwards own three wins each.
- Overall, 46 drivers have won an Xfinity Series race at Dover. Ryan Blaney became the 46th driver to win at the track, when he won the 2017 fall race. Each of the last five races have been won by a driver who had never won at Dover before that victory (Regan smith, Erik Jones, Daniel Suarez, Kyle Larson and Blaney).
- Daniel Suarez is the last Xfinity Series regular to win at Dover, when he did so in the 2016 fall race.
- Chevrolet has won 30 of 68 Xfinity Series races at Dover. That includes two streaks of eight consecutive wins, both of which came during a 17-race stretch between the 1993 and 2001 spring races (exception was 1997 spring race, won by Pontiac).
- The polesitter has won the Xfinity Series race at Dover eight times, including seven times in the last 30 races. Kyle Larson was the last polesitter to win at Dover, when he did so in the 2017 spring race.
- Each of the last 16 races have been won from the eighth starting position or better (last race won outside the top eight was in the 2009 fall race, won by Clint Bowyer, who started 16th).
- Jeff Burton won from the furthest back at Dover, coming from 36th in the 2006 spring race.
- Drivers who have led the most laps in an Xfinity Series race at Dover have went on to win that race 38 times (56 percent of the time).
- Ryan Newman holds the record for most laps led in a victory, when he led 193 of 200 laps of the 2005 fall race. Kyle Busch led 191 and 192 laps respectively in victories in the 2010 spring and fall races.
- Matt Kenseth holds the record for most laps led in an Xfinity Series race at Dover without winning, when he led 160 of 200 laps in the 2003 spring race before finishing fourth (led all but 18 of the first 178 laps).
- Brad Keselowski led only two laps of the 2009 spring race, the fewest laps led by a race winner at Dover.
Statistics – 2018 Season and Series Overall
- Nine drivers have won races this season: Tyler Reddick, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Larson, Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney, Ryan Preece, Christopher Bell and Spencer Gallagher. Reddick, Preece, Bell and Gallagher are the drivers that aren’t regulars on the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series circuit.
- There have been 12 consecutive Xfinity Series races in which a different driver has won a race, dating back to the 2017 fall race at Texas Motor Speedway: Erik Jones, William Byron, Cole Custer, Tyler Reddick, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Larson, Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney, Ryan Preece, Christopher Bell and Spencer Gallagher.
- 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 (seven), top 10s (nine) and laps completed (1,720 out of 1,721). He has finished in the top 10 in 17 of the last 18 races, though he hasn’t won a race since 2016, when he won at Kentucky Speedway.
- Justin Allgaier leads all drivers in top threes (four).
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