StatChat Presents: Victory Lane - Race 31 @ Talladega

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Each week, we’re going to take a look at how the most recent race winner is doing in a collection of stat categories, and how they stack up against the field. 

 

Yellawood 500 – Talladega

Congratulations to the Winner

Bubba Wallace

 

2021 STATS

STANDINGS

Ross Chastain

Bubba Wallace

Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

645 Points

633 Points

615 Points

20th

21st

22nd

 

AVERAGE POINTS

Ross Chastain

Bubba Wallace

Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

20.81 Avg Points

20.13 Avg Points

19.84 Avg Points

19th

20th

21st

 

AVERAGE FINISH

Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

Bubba Wallace

Chase Briscoe

18.58 Avg Finish

18.84 Avg Finish

19.16 Avg Finish

19th

20th

21st

 

LAPS LED

Matt DiBenedetto

Bubba Wallace

Ross Chastain

64 Laps Led

62 Laps Led

62 Laps Led

16th

17th

18th

 

AVERAGE RUNNING POSITION

Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

Bubba Wallace

Aric Almirola

18.55 Avg Running Position

19.19 Avg Running Position

20.06 Avg Running Position

20th

21st

22nd

 

PASS DIFFERENTIAL

Rotating 77 Driver (Spire)

Bubba Wallace

Josh Bilicki

-53 Pass Differential

-56 Pass Differential

-63 Pass Differential

27th

28th

29th

 

QUALITY PASSES

Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

Bubba Wallace

Matt DiBenedetto

1,154 Quality Passes

1,146 Quality Passes

1,100 Quality Passes

17th

18th

19th

 

FASTEST LAPS

Erik Jones

Bubba Wallace

Aric Almirola

90 Fast Laps

73 Fast Laps

70 Fast Laps

21st

22nd

23rd

 

CAREER STATS (Current Drivers)

RACE STARTS

Corey LaJoie

Bubba Wallace

William Byron

160 Starts

143 Starts

139 Starts

21st

22nd

23rd

 

AVERAGE FINISH

Alex Bowman

Bubba Wallace

Matt DiBenedetto

20.92 Avg Finish

22.16 Avg Finish

23.77 Avg Finish

23rd

24th

25th

 

WINS

Chris Buescher

Bubba Wallace

Cole Custer

1 Win

1 Win

1 Win

19th

20th

21st

 

WIN PERCENTAGE

Aric Almirola

Bubba Wallace

Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

0.79%

0.70%

0.62%

18th

19th

20th

 

TOP 10 PERCENTAGE

Ross Chastain

Bubba Wallace

Ryan Preece

9.65%

8.39%

8.33%

25th

26th

27th

 

TOP 5 PERCENTAGE

Daniel Suarez

Bubba Wallace

Matt DiBenedetto

5.14%

4.20%

3.70%

20th

21st

22nd

 

DNF PERCENTAGE

Chris Buescher

Bubba Wallace

Chase Elliott

8.76%

9.79%

10.19%

7th

8th

9th

 

STAGE WINS

Austin Dillon

Bubba Wallace

Matt DiBenedetto

2 Stage Wins

2 Stage Wins

1 Stage Win

18th

19th

20th

 

ALL-TIME STATS

RACE STARTS

Fred Harb

Bubba Wallace

Jimmie Lewallen

144 Starts

143 Starts

142 Starts

179th

180th

181st

 

WINS

Christopher Bell

Bubba Wallace

Michael McDowell

1 Win

1 Win

1 Win

122nd

123rd

124th

 

WIN PERCENTAGE

Jody Ridley

Bubba Wallace

Elliott Sadler

0.72%

0.70%

0.68%

114th

115th

116th

 

TOP 10 PERCENTAGE

Dean Dalton

Bubba Wallace

Ryan Preece

8.55%

8.39%

8.33%

229th

230th

231st

 

TOP 5 PERCENTAGE

Paul Menard

Bubba Wallace

Wendell Scott

4.25%

4.20%

4.04%

165th

166th

167th

 

DNF PERCENTAGE

Jimmie Johnson

Bubba Wallace

AJ Allmendinger

9.62%

9.79%

10.13%

19th

20th

21st

 

 

 

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