In NASCAR’s marathon occasion, Noah Gragson and the No. 4 Entrance Row Motorsports group delivered considered one of its greatest performances of the season.
With a Tenth-place end (his third high 10 of the season), Gragson now sits twenty eighth within the driver standings. The outcome was additionally the primary time in Gragson’s Cup profession the place he accomplished all 600 miles at Charlotte (in 4 begins), solidifying the end as his greatest in “America‘s Residence for Racing.”
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In line with NASCAR Insights, the statistics again up Gragson’s efficiency as a stable one throughout the board. On Sunday, he was third-best in Restart Score, which was essential given there have been 5 restarts within the second half of the 400-lapper. Having the ninth-best Pace Score didn’t harm both, however Gragson’s Eleventh-ranked Passer Score and 14th-best Protection Score proved very important as these areas improved because the race reached the center levels. This, in flip, allowed him to stay a high 10 automobile for a lot of the night and gather essential stage factors.
However the valiant efficiency didn’t simply come from Gragson; his crew on pit highway additionally met the second, rating seventh-best in Pit Crew Score, which was 9 spots higher than the group’s season common. In different phrases, the No. 4 group was zeroed in on all the small print this previous week for the crown-jewel race, and a top-10 end was the reward for such an effort.
All in all, Gragson walked away from Charlotte transferring up from thirty first to twenty eighth within the regular-season standings, which firmly places him contained in the 32-driver grid for the looming NASCAR In-Season Problem, with the sector being cemented following this Sunday’s Cup race at Nashville Superspeedway (7 p.m. ET, Prime Video, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
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As such, Nashville can be on faucet for Gragson and the No. 4 Ford group. He solely has two Cup begins on the 1.33-mile concrete oval, however completed Tenth there final yr after a record-breaking 5 overtimes, which provides him an opportunity to construct off the momentum he has already gained.
Different notables from Sunday:
— Todd Gilliland and Zane Smith — Gragson’s Entrance Row teammates — ranked seventh or higher in Restart Score.
— Carson Hocevar’s No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet had the fourth-best Pace Score.
— Brad Keselowski completed fifth regardless of not rating high 10 in any of the 5 classes.
Chart of NASCAR Insights from Coca-Cola 600.
