Taylor Gray owned every column that matters and starts eleventh. The pole sitter owns the only one he did not. All 36 cars, every lap, before the green flag.
INTERCEPTED AUDIO " " Taylor Gray owned the overall average and the five, ten and fifteen lap columns and starts eleventh. The pole sitter owns the twenty. All 36 cars, every lap, before the green flag.
WORLD WIDE TECHNOLOGY RACEWAY - NU WAY 225 POWERED BY BOBCAT AND SAUCED BY BLUES HOG - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2026 - 7:00 PM ET - THE CW - BY PITBYNUMBERS STAFF The pole a year ago was a 32.93. Carson Kvapil took this one with a 33.626. That is nearly seven tenths of grip that is simply gone, and the drivers felt it all afternoon: tight in the heat, loose on exit, and a racetrack that nobody could make behave on both ends at once.
Turns one and two are tight enough to force a downshift. Three and four are a long flat sweep that rewards a clean entry and punishes anyone who overdrives it. Almost nobody solved both.
Every number below was computed from the official lap chart, all 47 laps, all 36 cars, and then checked against the series consecutive-lap averages table. 252 of 252 cells match. The OVERALL column is a driver's average across every green lap he ran, not his fastest one, which is why the quickest car on one lap is not the quickest car on this board.
Pit laps are excluded. Everything else counts. The card drops after the odds get reposted off this grid, so treat everything here as the read and not the bet.
Three things on this board are worth a price. The first is the gap between Taylor Gray's sheet and Taylor Gray's grid spot. He tied for the fastest lap of the session and led it outright over five laps, over ten and over fifteen, and he starts eleventh at a track the broadcast called notoriously hard to pass.
Either the eleventh spot is wrong or the sheet is, and thirty green laps of evidence say it is the spot. The second is Parker Retzlaff and Anthony Alfredo, who between them ran 91 green laps and own the second and eighth best twenty lap averages in the field. They start nineteenth and thirteenth.
Nobody did more work to find out what this car does on a long run, and the grid did not reward either of them for it. The third is the short sample problem, and it cuts against a name near the top. Jeremy Clements has the second-best single lap and the second-best overall average on twenty green laps and a longest run of five.
There is no ten lap average for him because he never ran ten in a row. A price built on those first two numbers is a price built on nothing. These are reads on this weekend's evidence, not placed bets, and the prices we like will be on the card.
The fastest car in practice starts eleventh. The pole sitter owns the only long run column the fastest car does not. The racetrack is seven tenths slower than it was a year ago and it is about to cool twenty five degrees under the lights, which means every balance call made in ninety degree heat is a guess about a track nobody has driven yet tonight.
The cars that ran the most laps are the ones that guessed with the most information. The two who ran the most start thirteenth and nineteenth.