The Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday at Charlotte Motor Speedway marks the halfway level of the common season for the NASCAR Cup Sequence. With 12 factors races of NASCAR stats to investigate, now could be the proper time at hand out some awards at this stage of the season.
Let’s dive into our midseason NASCAR awards forward of the Coca-Cola 600.
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Greatest Driver: Tyler Reddick
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Who else however Tyler Reddick would get this honor? Has the No. 45 workforce had a bit of excellent fortune this season? Actually. What can’t be denied are the outcomes and the way Reddick persistently simply finds a strategy to end close to the entrance of the sphere. He begins (, 1st in Cup Sequence) simply as robust as he finishes (5.7 common ending place), and he’s snagged a top-five end in 66.7 % of his races with a top-10 in 75 % of races. With a 129-point lead in late Could, Reddick feels destined to win the regular-season title.
Greatest Workforce: Joe Gibbs Racing
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23XI Racing deserves a little bit of consideration right here, however Joe Gibbs Racing has clearly been the most effective workforce in NASCAR to date. Denny Hamlin and Ty Gibbs have each delivered wins this season, and JGR is the one workforce with two drivers among the many top-six factors leaders. Moreover, Hamlin (624) and teammate Christopher Bell (325) rank first and third in laps led, with Ty in eleventh place (78). Whereas it’s been a comparatively quiet season for Chase Briscoe in his first yr with JGR, the motive force of the No. 19 automotive does rank eighth in common ending place (13.0) over the with three top-10 finishes.
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Largest Shock: Ty Gibbs
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Ty Gibbs stays one of many least widespread drivers in NASCAR, and there have been a lot questioning coming into the yr if he’d show he really belonged behind the wheel of the No. 54 automotive. Let the outcomes this season converse volumes in regards to the enhancements made by the 23-year-old. In 2025, Gibbs had 5 top-fives, 10 top-10s and posted a mean ending place of 17.86. Via 12 races this season, he’s already at six top-fives and on tempo to shatter his career-high (eight) within the Cup Sequence. Likewise, he’s delivered eight top-10 finishes and can blow previous his earlier season-best mark (12 in 2024). On high of that, Gibbs recorded his first Cup Sequence win, with a seven-week stretch of top-10 finishes that has dramatically improved his common ending place to the sixth-best mark (13.8) in Cup.
Largest Disappointment: Joey Logano
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A yr in the past we might’ve put Kyle Busch on this record, however he avoids it this season due to how low the bar of expectations has now reached for Richard Childress Racing and the No. 8 workforce. So, that leaves Joey Logano as the most important disappointment within the NASCAR Cup Sequence this season. Logano has as many top-10 finishes this season (three) as DNFs, with a mean ending place (22.417) that ranks twenty sixth within the Cup Sequence, behind the likes of A.J. Allmendinger (19.5), Zane Smith (19.9) and Erik Jones (20.0). Since Darlington, Logano has a mean ending place of 26.5, and that’s with a third-place end at Martinsville and seventh at Bristol. Logano has zero shot at difficult for a championship this yr, and a best-case situation may be ending outdoors the top-10 in The Chase.
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Greatest Pit Crew: No. 20 Workforce
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Fairly a number of issues have gone incorrect for Christopher Bell this season, a few of it out of his management. What JGR and Bell should really feel nice about proper now could be how phenomenal the No. 20 pit crew has been. rated them because the No. 1 pit crew coming into the All-Star Race, and the numbers again it up. Bell’s pit crew has the second-fastest common pit cease (10.52 seconds) this season, with the quickest pit cease (8.92 seconds) of the season. Moreover, per , solely 9 of the 47 pit stops have taken 11.6 seconds or extra, with the No. 20 crew ranked first in PCR (1,072).
Worst Pit Crew: No. 8 Workforce
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Kyle Busch’s winless streak within the Cup Sequence has reached triple digits. The long run Corridor of Famer deserves loads of blame for what’s occurred, together with his struggles adjusting to the Subsequent Gen automotive and his mood costing him higher finishes taking part in a component within the struggles. What can’t be ignored is how dangerous the No. 8 pit crew has been this season. Busch’s pit crew ranks thirty fifth in PCR with an abysmal 12.22 common pit time. Whereas Bell has solely had a pit cease go 11.6-plus seconds 19.2 % of the time, the No. 8 workforce has wanted on 17 of 49 qualifying pit stops, or 34.7 % of the time. We received’t be predicting Busch to win a Cup race anytime quickly.
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Most Improved Driver: Carson Hocevar
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Carson Hocevar is the subsequent famous person that NASCAR has been ready for. The 23-year-old’s first profession Cup Sequence win at Talladega and the celebration that got here after was most likely the most effective second within the Cup Sequence this season. What actually stands out with the motive force of the No. 77 automotive is how he’s channeling his aggressiveness and racing smarter, leading to extra consistency on the end. Hocevar (14.6) presently ranks forward of the likes of William Byron (16.0), Kyle Larson (17.3), Chase Briscoe (17.5) and Christopher Bell (17.8) in common ending place. He’s additionally already set his career-high for top-fives (three), and he’ll break private bests for top-10s (9) and laps led (131) in a number of weeks. Thoughts you, Hocevar is having all of this success whereas overcoming a bottom-10 pit crew.
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