2021 Cup Series YellaWood 500

Points race

Date
Track
Talladega Superspeedway (2.66 miles)
Laps
188 (500 miles) / actual: 117 (311 miles) [View all laps]

Stats

Stats on this page
  • ARP - Average running position
  • wARP - Weighted average running position - A driver's average green flag running position, which each lap weighted in proportion to how well that lap predicts a driver's finish position over Lap Raptor's entire data set. The result is that a driver's running position in later laps are weighted higher than earlier laps. This better accounts for strategic decision making and smart driving (for example, earlier in a race you might be willing to sacrifice track position for speed or to avoid on-track incidents).
  • GF Laps - Green flag laps
  • SS - Speed score - 1000 x the ratio of the driver's 95th percentile lap to the race 95th percentile lap. A good read of a driver's top speed. [Read more]
  • GR - Gain rating - The weighted number of positions gained. The weighting is done based on the perceived difficulty of passing from a driver's current position. For example, it's for more difficult to pass from 2nd than it is from last, because the quality of car and driver is much higher at the front and there's just fewer spots to gain to begin with. The driver is assigned a score for each lap on which he or she gains a position. That score is the product of two values: the difference between the driver's starting and finishing position on that lap, and the weight of their starting position. The weight is inverse to the ordinal value of the position; something like 1/N, where N is the position. For example, 12th has a weight of 1/12 [Read more]
  • LR - Loss rating - See GR, but LR is only for laps where the driver has lost position. The weight is the inverse of their position from the back of the field, i.e. losing positions at the rear of the field results in a higher score than losing positions at the front, and thus a higher score is bad [Read more]
  • GR-LR - Net rating - The difference between the driver's GR and LR [Read more]
  • POMS - Percent of max speed - Race adjusted average speed. Assuming the fastest lap of the race is the fastest anyone could have gone on that day in that race, each lap speed as evaluated as a percentage of that lap speed and averaged to gain the driver's race adjusted average speed. This stat exists because without it, it's impossible to compare laps between a low speed track like Martinsville against a high speed track like Talladega. Note that this still isn't perfect: some tracks have greater fall off than others, and sometimes the weather changes or there's a rain delay, and that can cause distortion in POMS.
  • cPOMS - Continuously graded POMS - Like rPOMS but instead of using the fastest lap of the race, it uses the fast lap of that lap. For example, when scoring a driver's lap 30 lap speed, it uses the fastest of all drivers' lap 30 lap speeds
  • PGAE - Positions gained above expected - For any given running position, we can find the average position on the next lap. PGAE is the sum of the difference between the corresponding average to the driver's current running position and where they ended up in actuality on the next lap. For example, if a driver is running in 12th, and a driver in 12th on average is running 11.95th on the next lap, and the driver actually gains a position, he is scored a 0.95 for that lap. But if he held his 12th instead, he'd have been scored a -0.05. PGAE/100 is the driver's average score per 100 green flag laps
  • PFARP - Positions finished above running position - Like PFAE and PGAE, but comparing the driver's finish position against the average finish of a driver at their current running position at the specific point in the race. For example, if a driver is running 12th on lap 100, and the average finish for a driver running 12th on lap 100 is 13th, and the driver finishes 6th, they score +7 PFARP.
  • wPFARP - Weighted positions finished above running position - Like PFARP, but the the laps are weighted based on how well that point in the average race predicts a driver's finish position over Lap Raptor's entire data set. See wARP for more information.
  • ΔPOMS - Change in POMS - How much faster a driver went in the final segment than in the first. Last segment minus first segment.
  • 1st Seg Stats - First segment stats - The same stats as you know but only before the first caution or pit stop of the race
  • Last Seg Stats - Last segment stats - The same stats as you know but only after the last caution or pit stop of the race
Driver Car Manu. Start Finish Finish Status ARP wARP GF Laps SS GR LR GR-LR POMS cPOMS PGAE PFARP wPFARP 1st Seg. POMS Last Seg. POMS ΔPOMS ARS
Bubba Wallace 23 Toyota 19 1 Running 14.09 13.52 88 -0.20 8.84 5.34 3.50 0.9501 0.9846 25.33 13.28 13.05 0.955
Brad Keselowski 2 Ford 7 2 Running 6.33 6.84 89 -3.58 9.50 3.40 6.10 0.9488 0.9847 -2.66 8.68 8.46 0.955
Joey Logano 22 Ford 8 3 Running 6.46 8.06 89 -3.68 9.76 3.95 5.81 0.9490 0.9849 3.27 8.07 8.41 0.955
Kurt Busch 1 Chevy 14 4 Running 14.21 14.21 89 1.73 8.46 5.85 2.61 0.9476 0.9833 27.88 10.73 10.81 0.955
Christopher Bell 20 Toyota 12 5 Running 11.75 7.72 89 -1.49 9.79 4.26 5.54 0.9484 0.9842 -7.00 7.97 5.64 0.954
Chris Buescher 17 Ford 24 6 Running 10.44 9.74 89 -1.65 8.41 3.88 4.53 0.9487 0.9845 7.41 6.93 6.48 0.955
Denny Hamlin 11 Toyota 1 7 Running 12.51 8.56 88 0.05 10.52 6.00 4.52 0.9478 0.9822 -25.96 6.81 4.23 0.954
Kevin Harvick 4 Ford 9 8 Running 5.02 5.55 89 -1.84 11.26 4.05 7.21 0.9488 0.9846 10.45 2.44 2.18 0.955
Erik Jones 43 Chevy 26 9 Running 14.76 11.76 88 -0.35 9.19 6.42 2.77 0.9486 0.9831 10.24 5.92 4.06 0.955
Anthony Alfredo 38 Ford 30 10 Running 18.60 16.24 88 1.43 8.12 6.52 1.60 0.9441 0.9812 12.42 6.76 5.75 0.946
Austin Dillon 3 Chevy 16 11 Running 15.82 14.72 87 -1.47 8.06 5.95 2.11 0.9454 0.9797 -23.97 4.73 3.92 0.952
Martin Truex Jr. 19 Toyota 6 12 Running 13.92 14.86 88 0.23 9.16 6.88 2.27 0.9470 0.9811 -28.36 3.23 3.32 0.954
Cole Custer 41 Ford 28 13 Running 13.64 13.78 88 1.23 7.83 4.52 3.31 0.9490 0.9835 14.94 2.12 1.99 0.956
Chase Briscoe 14 Ford 17 14 Running 24.53 26.20 87 1.14 6.26 7.13 -0.87 0.9369 0.9722 -3.89 8.65 10.35 0.943
Ryan Blaney 12 Ford 4 15 Running 10.43 13.18 89 -3.66 6.67 3.92 2.75 0.9478 0.9835 -8.70 -1.01 -0.36 0.954
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 47 Chevy 21 16 Running 15.89 11.61 89 4.39 8.73 6.24 2.49 0.9475 0.9847 -2.32 -0.15 -2.76 0.944
Michael McDowell 34 Ford 22 17 Running 25.14 22.85 88 2.35 6.52 6.91 -0.39 0.9382 0.9722 19.55 5.08 3.72 0.955
Chase Elliott 9 Chevy 3 18 Running 11.20 11.27 88 -3.16 8.47 5.76 2.71 0.9496 0.9841 -3.42 -3.87 -4.69 0.954
Quin Houff 00 Chevy 35 19 Running 25.47 24.21 88 3.58 4.10 4.22 -0.12 0.9464 0.9833 30.10 2.78 2.54 0.945
Justin Haley 16 Chevy 38 20 Running 19.88 21.24 88 -1.18 6.15 5.46 0.69 0.9436 0.9775 -18.40 -0.47 0.59 0.955
Ryan Newman 6 Ford 25 21 Running 31.02 29.59 89 -0.54 2.75 5.47 -2.72 0.9352 0.9729 7.74 5.13 5.22 0.936
Corey LaJoie 7 Chevy 29 22 Running 23.54 26.02 89 -0.51 6.16 7.11 -0.95 0.9427 0.9793 1.24 0.30 2.34 0.945
Daniel Suarez 99 Chevy 18 23 Running 31.59 31.64 90 -1.47 2.39 4.91 -2.52 0.9376 0.9751 -8.66 4.55 5.47 0.942
Landon Cassill 96 Toyota 40 24 Running 28.19 28.02 88 -0.91 3.45 4.47 -1.02 0.9428 0.9766 -10.73 0.43 0.82 0.954
Joey Gase 53 Ford 36 25 Running 31.89 29.22 89 -1.02 2.70 4.38 -1.68 0.9272 0.9619 -5.65 1.97 0.65 0.908
Aric Almirola 10 Ford 20 26 Running 24.77 26.76 88 1.56 4.81 5.70 -0.89 0.9421 0.9758 -12.29 -2.89 -1.73 0.953
Kyle Busch 18 Toyota 2 27 Running 16.30 19.77 87 -2.08 6.79 7.00 -0.21 0.9462 0.9803 -14.96 -8.58 -6.71 0.954
Cody Ware 51 Chevy 31 28 Running 28.92 27.57 89 -0.21 4.20 5.77 -1.56 0.9398 0.9749 0.68 -2.71 -3.03 0.952
Garrett Smithley 15 Chevy 37 29 Running 36.06 35.23 89 -5.31 1.20 4.19 -2.99 0.9144 0.9501 -9.47 2.61 3.03 0.936
BJ McLeod 78 Ford 32 30 Running 32.18 31.50 87 -3.40 2.10 3.60 -1.50 0.9353 0.9719 -16.58 -2.01 -1.74 0.936
Josh Bilicki 52 Ford 34 31 Running 34.55 32.49 86 -1.86 1.35 3.21 -1.86 0.9262 0.9583 2.84 -1.14 -1.87 0.944
Ryan Preece 37 Chevy 27 32 Accident 22.06 18.80 87 8.51 7.56 7.17 0.39 0.9465 0.9839 4.94 -11.78 -14.46 0.945
Ross Chastain 42 Chevy 23 33 Running 21.79 22.82 85 1.37 5.61 7.54 -1.93 0.9506 0.9827 10.75 -11.41 -10.82 0.955
James Davison 66 Ford 39 34 Running 38.65 37.86 86 -0.50 0.50 4.50 -4.00 0.9278 0.9594 -1.41 -0.37 0.43 0.906
Matt DiBenedetto 21 Ford 15 35 Accident 25.38 26.47 86 0.54 4.56 4.68 -0.12 0.9455 0.9802 -20.69 -10.94 -10.98 0.941
William Byron 24 Chevy 10 36 Accident 15.49 15.62 87 -0.76 7.14 6.19 0.95 0.9508 0.9844 -2.37 -18.79 -20.39 0.954
Kyle Larson 5 Chevy 5 37 Running 22.05 29.12 79 -1.78 5.41 4.95 0.45 0.9288 0.9624 -10.45 -13.02 -8.13 0.954
Alex Bowman 48 Chevy 11 38 Accident 11.93 9.71 74 -1.78 8.45 4.65 3.80 0.9530 0.9850 9.93 -22.42 -25.15 0.955
Tyler Reddick 8 Chevy 13 39 Accident 16.28 15.17 75 -0.12 7.38 5.59 1.79 0.9491 0.9842 -14.72 -20.79 -23.04 0.943
Justin Allgaier 77 Chevy 33 40 Accident 18.80 19.01 51 0.65 4.04 3.61 0.43 0.9541 0.9855 -9.36 -21.05 -21.63 0.955

Cautions

Start End Free Pass Reason Description
27 29 53 Competition Competition Caution
57 64 34 Accident #5, 14, 24 and 77 Incident on the Frontstretch
68 77 14 Debris Debris in Turn 2 from #5 [Red Flag: 18:20]
99 103 14 Accident 8, 9, 18, 19, 37, 42, 47, 48 and 78 Incident on the Backstretch
117 117 - Accident #12, 24, 37 and 47 Incident on the Backstretch