received the 2024 . His third total.
didn’t even go to the season finale at Phoenix with an opportunity of profitable his second.
However Larson appears to recommend he’s equally pleased to have led in victories — six, whereas nobody else received greater than 4. The present playoff format rewards , however because the playoff shadows develop lengthy, it additionally punishes any slip, even the slightest, and Larson slipped when he completed eleventh and thirteenth within the first two races within the Spherical of 8 final fall.
“If something, I simply suppose the format in a method devalues a championship,” Larson mentioned in a for 2025.
“I believe clearly you’d wish to win probably the most races and win the championship and all that, however I believe profitable six races, that is extraordinarily robust to do, and we had been a consider many greater than that.”
Kyle Larson has led NASCAR in victories twice
It was the second time in Larson’s NASCAR profession that he led the Cup Sequence in victories. The opposite time, in 2021, half of his series-high 10 wins got here in the course of the playoffs — together with three straight and a win within the championship race.
Failure to win one other Cup Sequence championship hasn’t dampened his emotions for the second season wherein he recorded probably the most visits to Victory Lane.
“I believe we had an ideal yr,” Larson mentioned of 2024. “You led the collection in a variety of classes, most all of the classes, so yeah, it was a bit of disappointing to not get the possibility to race for a championship at Phoenix, however on the similar level, I perceive the format.
“I actually wasn’t that upset in the course of the week of Phoenix as a result of I knew regardless of the end result, we had been going to finish the season with probably the most wins. And to me, today, that is as necessary as profitable a championship.”
Daytona 500 is up subsequent; can Kyle Larson lastly get it completed?
NASCAR vehicles and drivers hit the monitor once more the primary weekend of February, when the Cook dinner Out Conflict introduces many fashionable followers to the historic Bowman Grey Stadium.
Two weeks later, the common season begins because it all the time does, with the .
Mockingly, certainly one of NASCAR’s largest fashionable stars has by no means received his sport’s largest race. Larson is 0-for-11 on the Daytona 500 since his first full-time season in 2014. Throw in his profession shutout in Daytona’s summertime race, he is 0-for-21 on the World Middle of Racing.
He is not completely with out victories at Daytona, nevertheless. Within the short-lived Whelen All American Sequence go to to Daytona, he received a 2013 race on the quick monitor arrange off Flip 2 on the backstretch. Two years later, he was a part of Chip Ganassi’s total win within the .
Three years later, Larson received a 2018 Xfinity Sequence race at Daytona.
