In NASCAR’s marathon occasion, Noah Gragson and the No. 4 Entrance Row Motorsports workforce delivered one among its finest performances of the season.
With a Tenth-place end (his third prime 10 of the season), Gragson now sits twenty eighth within the driver standings. The end result 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 finest in “America‘s House for Racing.”
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In accordance 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 Ranking, which was essential given there have been 5 restarts within the second half of the 400-lapper. Having the ninth-best Pace Ranking didn’t damage both, however Gragson’s Eleventh-ranked Passer Ranking and 14th-best Protection Ranking proved important as these areas improved because the race reached the center phases. This, in flip, allowed him to stay a prime 10 automotive for many of the night and gather vital 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 Ranking, which was 9 spots higher than the workforce’s season common. In different phrases, the No. 4 workforce 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 sphere being cemented following this Sunday’s Cup race at Nashville Superspeedway (7 p.m. ET, Prime Video, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
As such, Nashville can be on faucet for Gragson and the No. 4 Ford workforce. 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 supplies 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 Ranking.
— Carson Hocevar’s No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet had the fourth-best Pace Ranking.
— Brad Keselowski completed fifth regardless of not rating prime 10 in any of the 5 classes.
