Every lap of all seven Next Gen Cup races on the Bristol concrete through the loop data. The pole has never won, one driver has led more laps than the next three combined, and the halfway leader gets caught five times out of seven.
We ran every lap of all seven Next Gen Cup races on the Bristol concrete through the loop data. The pole has never won, one driver has led more laps than the next three combined, and the track that sells itself on carnage has a lower DNF rate than Charlotte. Then lightning and rain cancelled practice and qualifying, and a formula set the grid.
Receipts on all of it. Key Takeaways Every number below comes from the loop data for the seven Next Gen Cup races on the Bristol concrete, the fall of 2022 through this April, the same window every time. The three dirt races are not in it; different surface, different sport.
Where two seasons of short-track form say something different we say so. Win prices are the best of five books as listed at time of writing and they move as the books move; where a fact names a placement market without a number, that market had not posted when we wrote. Practice was cancelled for lightning and qualifying for rain, so Saturday's starting order was set by the NASCAR metric rather than by speed.
Every driver in the field has a full file in the Scouting Report , the grid is read car by car in the starting lineup , the prices are live on the odds board , and April's race is torn down lap by lap in The Autopsy: Last Race at Bristol . Read those after this. You will read them differently.
Receipts, not vibes. The full card for Saturday is on the bet card .