{"id":98575,"date":"2025-08-26T15:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/98575\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:26:12","slug":"nascar-driver-averages-darlington-raceway-playoffs-await-larson-byron-elliott-and-bowman-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/98575\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR driver averages: Darlington Raceway, playoffs await Larson, Byron, Elliott and Bowman this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

CONCORD, N.C. –\u00a0Well, now that that’s over…<\/a><\/p>\n

The NASCAR Cup Series regular season finale was a chaotic one at Daytona International Speedway<\/a> last week but now, all four Hendrick Motorsports drivers can set their sights on the postseason<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That starts this weekend at historic Darlington Raceway for the Southern 500, one of NASCAR’s crown jewel events. Both Kyle Larson and William Byron<\/a> have a win at Darlington with Larson having led 1,048 laps in 15 starts there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chase Elliott has finished 12th or better in his last five Darlington starts including an eighth-place finish in the spring. Alex Bowman<\/a>\u00a0recorded an eighth-place\u00a0finish last spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here’s how all four drivers stack up at The Lady in Black:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kyle Larson statistics at Darlington
\nStarts:15Wins:1Poles:0Top fives:7Top 10s:9Laps led:1,048Average start:9.4Average finish:12.5
\nChase Elliott statistics at Darlington
\nStarts:17Wins:
\n0
\nPoles:
\n0
\nTop fives:
\n4
\nTop 10s:
\n8
\nLaps led:
\n151Average start:
\n15.8Average finish:
\n15.8<\/p>\n

RELATED: Hendrick Motorsports crew members put college football fandom aside<\/a><\/p>\n

William Byron picked up a win at Darlington Raceway in the spring of 2023.
\nWilliam Byron statistics at Darlington
\nStarts:14Wins:
\n1
\nPoles:
\n2Top fives:
\n5
\nTop 10s:
\n7
\nLaps led:
\n331Average start:
\n9.9Average finish:
\n15.0
\nAlex Bowman statistics at Darlington
\nStarts:15Wins:
\n0
\nPoles:
\n0
\nTop fives:
\n1
\nTop 10s:
\n4
\nLaps led:
\n42Average start:
\n18.1Average finish:
\n19.8
\nHendrick Motorsports at Darlington Raceway
\nRaces:69Wins:16 (most)Poles:9Top fives:58 (most)Top 10s:97 (most)Laps led:4,259 (most)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CONCORD, N.C. –\u00a0Well, now that that’s over… The NASCAR Cup Series regular season finale was a chaotic one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-98575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}