2024 Cup Series Cook Out Southern 500

Points race

Date
Track
Darlington Raceway (1.37 miles)
Laps
367 (501 miles) / actual: 367 (501 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
Chase Briscoe 14 Ford 3 1 Running 3.19 2.71 323 12.69 7.71 2.45 5.26 0.9230 0.9740 57.24 8.23 7.61 0.904 0.959 0.055
Kyle Busch 8 Chevy 17 2 Running 14.98 12.52 322 4.52 11.96 6.01 5.95 0.9148 0.9654 78.72 12.92 11.80 0.836 0.960 0.124
Christopher Bell 20 Toyota 9 3 Running 6.04 6.42 322 7.46 8.61 2.60 6.01 0.9188 0.9698 41.48 7.85 7.63 0.885 0.951 0.066
Kyle Larson 5 Chevy 4 4 Running 1.92 1.75 322 10.15 8.57 2.55 6.02 0.9230 0.9741 59.25 4.55 3.95 0.909 0.949 0.040
Ross Chastain 1 Chevy 22 5 Running 14.37 13.06 321 1.82 6.08 3.86 2.21 0.9128 0.9623 18.89 9.78 9.25 0.848 0.948 0.100
Chris Buescher 17 Ford 10 6 Running 11.43 11.69 322 1.07 5.38 3.68 1.69 0.9145 0.9647 18.80 7.37 7.30 0.890 0.948 0.058
Denny Hamlin 11 Toyota 14 7 Running 6.48 5.20 322 7.56 11.43 3.65 7.77 0.9210 0.9720 69.61 4.08 3.14 0.856 0.944 0.087
Joey Logano 22 Ford 23 8 Running 14.39 13.59 322 -1.49 6.34 4.61 1.73 0.9127 0.9625 38.33 6.97 6.52 0.829 0.944 0.115
Corey LaJoie 7 Chevy 19 9 Running 21.27 20.81 321 -5.32 4.99 4.98 0.01 0.9074 0.9570 -1.00 9.94 9.85 0.834 0.943 0.108
Tyler Reddick 45 Toyota 6 10 Running 5.84 7.02 322 5.91 6.68 3.30 3.38 0.9174 0.9680 32.25 1.23 1.22 0.908 0.942 0.034
Chase Elliott 9 Chevy 20 11 Running 19.89 20.17 320 -1.89 5.90 4.85 1.05 0.9103 0.9601 34.08 7.17 7.35 0.842 0.941 0.099
Ryan Preece 41 Ford 30 12 Running 15.80 13.79 323 -1.75 6.03 5.10 0.93 0.9141 0.9641 43.54 3.73 2.70 0.816 0.939 0.123
Austin Cindric 2 Ford 11 13 Running 25.14 25.20 314 -4.24 2.64 5.49 -2.85 0.9086 0.9565 -4.72 8.77 9.10 0.849 0.940 0.091
Brad Keselowski 6 Ford 12 14 Running 11.77 11.51 322 0.47 5.72 4.73 0.99 0.9141 0.9639 40.09 0.01 -0.42 0.862 0.935 0.072
Austin Dillon 3 Chevy 16 15 Running 17.09 18.80 319 -2.80 5.38 3.98 1.40 0.9133 0.9630 17.94 2.12 2.58 0.849 0.934 0.085
Bubba Wallace 23 Toyota 1 16 Running 6.64 8.43 321 2.11 6.45 3.30 3.15 0.9180 0.9683 33.67 -4.07 -4.04 0.915 0.921 0.006
Todd Gilliland 38 Ford 33 17 Running 16.63 15.31 320 -1.10 5.70 4.88 0.82 0.9127 0.9625 46.82 -0.52 -1.33 0.810 0.913 0.104
Daniel Suarez 99 Chevy 32 18 Running 20.98 18.02 319 -1.96 4.56 5.24 -0.68 0.9108 0.9596 15.32 0.74 -0.76 0.814 0.895 0.081
Alex Bowman 48 Chevy 27 19 Running 21.86 21.80 311 -5.89 4.52 5.00 -0.48 0.9102 0.9592 -1.45 0.71 0.66 0.816 0.933 0.117
Ty Gibbs 54 Toyota 13 20 Running 8.07 7.87 321 4.50 5.58 3.00 2.58 0.9147 0.9653 33.09 -7.52 -8.34 0.853 0.865 0.012
Harrison Burton 21 Ford 24 21 Running 25.45 25.55 309 -4.26 4.38 6.14 -1.76 0.9096 0.9578 24.67 1.07 1.31 0.825 0.933 0.108
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 47 Chevy 36 22 Running 29.74 28.85 308 -12.34 2.85 7.43 -4.58 0.9045 0.9522 -15.15 3.19 3.16 0.808 0.929 0.121
Zane Smith 71 Chevy 26 23 Running 27.70 27.26 304 -3.47 3.00 7.30 -4.30 0.9105 0.9587 -6.27 0.52 0.61 0.820 0.939 0.119
Erik Jones 43 Toyota 28 24 Running 19.81 21.03 301 0.38 5.56 5.61 -0.05 0.9113 0.9602 25.86 -5.02 -4.67 0.826 0.936 0.110
John Hunter Nemechek 42 Toyota 18 25 Running 27.81 28.93 303 -7.48 3.10 6.59 -3.49 0.9047 0.9529 -1.41 -0.69 0.32 0.846 0.932 0.086
Shane Van Gisbergen 16 Chevy 34 26 Running 28.11 28.62 305 -20.06 5.08 6.93 -1.85 0.9061 0.9540 10.06 -1.41 -0.81 0.787 0.929 0.142
Justin Haley 51 Ford 21 27 Running 31.06 32.09 294 -2.93 2.42 4.27 -1.85 0.9045 0.9531 5.42 0.32 1.46 0.833 0.931 0.098
Michael McDowell 34 Ford 31 28 Running 26.39 27.20 300 -8.32 3.15 7.33 -4.18 0.9040 0.9513 -7.94 -4.92 -4.13 0.800 0.932 0.132
Daniel Hemric 31 Chevy 25 29 Running 29.45 30.66 297 -11.73 2.75 6.44 -3.69 0.9009 0.9488 -7.11 -3.36 -2.07 0.823 0.921 0.097
William Byron 24 Chevy 8 30 Accident 5.73 5.32 304 6.58 7.05 2.80 4.25 0.9188 0.9702 37.91 -18.08 -19.45 0.896
Josh Berry 4 Ford 15 31 Accident 9.02 8.28 305 1.09 9.10 4.25 4.85 0.9179 0.9688 61.54 -17.57 -18.99 0.847
Noah Gragson 10 Ford 29 32 Accident 19.74 17.55 305 -4.67 5.95 5.66 0.29 0.9115 0.9619 40.90 -13.28 -15.13 0.796
Carson Hocevar 77 Chevy 2 33 Accident 15.12 17.45 298 -2.18 3.58 3.71 -0.13 0.9107 0.9608 -2.72 -16.21 -16.01 0.899
Kaz Grala 15 Ford 35 34 Running 34.28 34.54 270 -23.27 0.75 4.75 -4.00 0.8872 0.9351 -19.22 -4.41 -3.38 0.796
Timmy Hill 66 Ford 37 35 Steering 34.10 34.14 239 -40.88 1.88 2.40 -0.52 0.8771 0.9252 9.29 -6.00 -5.40 0.786
Martin Truex Jr. 19 Toyota 5 36 Accident 7.00 1 -29.18 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.9320 0.9850 0.932
Ryan Blaney 12 Ford 7 37 Accident 8.50 8.00 2 9.82 0.11 0.00 0.11 0.9509 0.9800 -11.77 -23.55 0.951

Cautions

Start End Free Pass Reason Description
4 9 - Accident #19, 12, 24 incident turn 2
117 122 99 Competition Stage 1 Conclusion
232 237 77 Competition Stage 2 Conclusion
315 319 3 Accident #43, 77 incident turn 4
323 327 9 Accident #38, 17 incident backstretch
337 341 2 Accident #77 incident turn 4
345 350 48 Accident #23, 24, 10, 4, 99, 3, 54 incident turn 2