2025 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 19 Toyota 2 1 Running 1.80 1.46 326 21.93 9.27 3.15 6.12 0.9164 0.9753 81.78 7.23 6.45 0.731 0.926 0.195 152.259
Tyler Reddick 45 Toyota 4 2 Running 4.52 3.11 324 12.48 8.22 3.96 4.25 0.9174 0.9761 79.17 7.76 6.68 0.718 0.927 0.209 150.940
Erik Jones 43 Toyota 19 3 Running 8.54 5.71 325 7.70 6.92 2.99 3.93 0.9134 0.9720 54.04 8.55 7.03 0.601 0.926 0.326 147.625
John Hunter Nemechek 42 Toyota 30 4 Running 8.55 6.42 326 5.71 9.58 3.81 5.77 0.9107 0.9689 62.79 7.64 6.38 0.558 0.926 0.368 146.588
AJ Allmendinger 16 Chevy 22 5 Running 11.45 8.43 325 6.34 5.30 3.22 2.08 0.9095 0.9678 36.22 7.99 6.50 0.587 0.923 0.336 146.840
Bubba Wallace 23 Toyota 8 6 Running 6.16 6.43 325 6.43 6.68 2.85 3.83 0.9114 0.9699 46.74 4.76 4.36 0.678 0.923 0.245 148.840
Denny Hamlin 11 Toyota 1 7 Running 9.43 11.31 325 6.38 8.94 4.54 4.40 0.9083 0.9668 40.48 5.61 6.01 0.721 0.919 0.198 148.720
Kyle Busch 8 Chevy 23 8 Running 15.39 12.35 324 -0.11 6.00 3.57 2.43 0.9082 0.9660 53.35 7.22 5.74 0.919 144.414
Carson Hocevar 77 Chevy 26 9 Running 15.21 13.95 325 -0.81 8.04 4.90 3.15 0.9024 0.9605 35.72 6.22 5.53 0.560 0.918 0.357 145.495
Chris Buescher 17 Ford 15 10 Running 17.02 13.02 325 0.72 4.98 4.46 0.52 0.9063 0.9642 23.40 6.33 4.40 0.591 0.917 0.326 146.034
Ross Chastain 1 Chevy 6 11 Running 5.44 5.78 325 9.19 8.01 3.70 4.31 0.9113 0.9698 49.46 -0.29 -0.88 0.693 0.917 0.224 149.603
Austin Cindric 2 Ford 10 12 Running 12.86 14.03 325 0.14 6.07 4.56 1.51 0.9064 0.9646 51.04 2.41 2.59 0.669 0.916 0.247 146.423
Zane Smith 38 Ford 24 13 Running 25.32 23.00 319 -1.49 3.28 3.77 -0.49 0.9048 0.9625 13.71 8.46 7.48 0.575 0.916 0.341 143.692
Noah Gragson 4 Ford 34 14 Running 20.40 18.31 325 -1.94 4.96 3.87 1.10 0.9021 0.9601 26.42 4.29 3.31 0.539 0.915 0.376 144.297
Brad Keselowski 6 Ford 32 15 Running 28.18 25.69 318 -5.94 3.55 5.19 -1.63 0.8998 0.9571 10.02 9.03 8.12 0.543 0.912 0.370 142.746
Ryan Preece 60 Ford 27 16 Running 16.79 12.87 325 -1.36 4.29 3.55 0.74 0.9060 0.9640 25.72 0.33 -1.63 0.555 0.912 0.357 145.209
Chase Elliott 9 Chevy 21 17 Running 17.83 18.51 325 -4.70 7.21 4.90 2.31 0.9019 0.9599 47.44 0.67 0.74 0.579 0.912 0.334 145.014
Ryan Blaney 12 Ford 12 18 Running 16.85 19.40 322 -0.51 6.60 5.94 0.66 0.9055 0.9634 47.53 -0.67 0.26 0.650 0.912 0.262 143.630
Kyle Larson 5 Chevy 5 19 Running 8.62 9.98 325 4.00 6.88 4.29 2.59 0.9097 0.9681 29.36 -6.10 -6.29 0.704 0.911 0.207 149.238
Joey Logano 22 Ford 14 20 Running 16.81 17.24 325 -3.50 4.55 4.77 -0.22 0.9023 0.9600 -1.33 -2.94 -3.04 0.637 0.910 0.274 146.303
William Byron 24 Chevy 11 21 Running 14.41 15.47 325 -2.02 4.72 4.86 -0.14 0.9061 0.9641 25.01 -5.22 -5.19 0.659 0.910 0.251 146.691
Ty Gibbs 54 Toyota 16 22 Running 15.38 17.37 325 -1.20 6.31 4.82 1.49 0.9053 0.9635 32.61 -5.23 -4.82 0.619 0.910 0.290 146.073
Austin Dillon 3 Chevy 9 23 Running 19.26 22.09 324 -2.78 4.65 6.32 -1.67 0.8992 0.9566 6.96 -4.03 -2.83 0.669 0.910 0.241 145.791
Cole Custer 41 Ford 18 24 Running 21.65 22.18 323 -5.85 5.61 5.66 -0.05 0.8992 0.9569 33.53 -3.91 -3.77 0.612 0.909 0.297 144.594
Daniel Suarez 99 Chevy 17 25 Running 28.53 29.14 318 -13.74 5.79 7.85 -2.06 0.8933 0.9502 24.67 0.28 1.08 0.611 0.900 0.289 143.514
Todd Gilliland 34 Ford 28 26 Running 27.16 27.54 321 -7.22 5.79 6.81 -1.01 0.8981 0.9554 40.08 -2.13 -1.50 0.535 0.910 0.374 143.246
Justin Haley 7 Chevy 13 27 Running 20.00 22.15 322 -4.65 5.29 5.69 -0.40 0.8981 0.9557 26.01 -7.25 -6.51 0.643 0.909 0.266 145.497
Riley Herbst 35 Toyota 33 28 Running 28.68 28.72 319 -7.63 2.75 6.28 -3.53 0.8964 0.9534 -10.83 -3.08 -2.55 0.545 0.909 0.364 143.120
Christopher Bell 20 Toyota 7 29 Running 16.93 22.22 321 0.92 6.30 5.91 0.39 0.9022 0.9600 17.60 -10.11 -8.13 0.677 0.897 0.219 146.302
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 47 Chevy 35 30 Running 30.18 30.33 320 -15.05 3.74 6.38 -2.65 0.8935 0.9502 4.71 -3.74 -3.02 0.523 0.897 0.374 142.223
Alex Bowman 48 Chevy 29 31 Running 30.59 30.02 313 -6.27 2.85 7.42 -4.57 0.8970 0.9536 -11.25 -4.42 -4.22 0.549 0.907 0.358 142.359
Shane Van Gisbergen 88 Chevy 20 32 Running 23.88 25.13 321 -14.54 8.51 8.78 -0.27 0.8953 0.9524 24.54 -9.57 -8.89 0.605 0.903 0.298 144.019
Michael McDowell 71 Chevy 25 33 Running 23.15 24.64 317 -2.56 5.72 8.05 -2.33 0.8927 0.9488 -0.02 -10.99 -10.24 0.569 0.906 0.337 144.125
Ty Dillon 10 Chevy 31 34 Running 33.19 33.62 311 -8.57 1.55 6.75 -5.20 0.8924 0.9486 -22.68 -4.66 -3.69 0.549 0.901 0.352 141.731
Timmy Hill 66 Ford 38 35 Running 35.60 35.72 289 -40.98 1.37 3.53 -2.16 0.8622 0.9161 -20.70 -3.78 -2.67 0.499 0.874 0.374 138.306
Derek Kraus 44 Chevy 37 36 Mechanical 34.46 35.18 228 -29.80 1.50 4.54 -3.04 0.8780 0.9317 -16.50 -6.43 -5.24 0.518 138.696
Cody Ware 51 Ford 36 37 Suspension 31.99 32.45 203 -15.82 1.76 3.66 -1.90 0.8890 0.9446 3.79 -10.09 -9.58 0.526 138.573
Josh Berry 21 Ford 3 38 Running 38.00 38.00 180 -15.72 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.8765 0.9323 -17.39 -5.54 -4.63 145.126

Cautions

Start End Free Pass Reason Description
2 6 - Accident #21, 45, 8, 17, 99 incident turn 2
117 122 88 Competition Stage 1 Conclusion
153 157 41 Spin #77 spin turn 4
204 208 47 Accident #51, 60 incident backstretch
211 214 99 Accident #3, 12 incident frontstretch
232 237 48 Competition Stage 2 Conclusion
314 319 9 Unknown #44 stalled on track