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Last year, there were 64 different drivers.

54: The number of drivers who turned at least one lap in 2020.

You could drive to the moon and back and still have about 20,000 miles left over. The mean distance between the moon and the earth is 238,855 miles. The length of all the races this year is a little more than half the way around the world at it’s equator!Ĥ97,241 miles: The total of all the miles driven by all the drivers in all the Cup races. The Earth’s circumference is 24,902 miles. How Far we Ranġ3,507: The maximum number of miles a full-time driver had the opportunity to drive in 2020 including rain-shortened races and overtime. Scheduled numbers are those we expected to run with the revised schedule.

9 of those races went into overtime, while the last (Darlington, Race #5) ended early due to rain.Īll told, we ran 24 more laps than scheduled and 70 additional miles. Going the Distanceġ0 races didn’t run the scheduled number of laps. While it seems like Mother Nature was especially cruel this year, we had four delayed races last year, too. Here are the actual number of races on each dayĬompare this to 2019, when we ran 28 races on Sunday, 5 races on Saturday and 3 races on Monday.įour races were delayed a day (or more) by weather: the Daytona 500, Charlotte (2), Talladega (2) and Texas (2). Mother Nature took care of the rest of it for us. 2: Alabama, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Tennessee, Kansas, Texas, Michigan, Nevada and ArizonaĢ020 was a bumper year for racing on different days of the week.3: South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia.We only raced once at Richmond this year.ġ8: The number of states we raced in this year Although we ran three races at Darlington, we didn’t get to Chicagoland, Sonoma or Watkins Glen. We only raced 22 different tracks this year, down from 24 last year, despite adding the brand-new Daytona road course. NASCAR was a model of how to make sports work during COVID. NASCAR did an amazing job, especially considering the difficulties other major league (and college) sports had (and have). And…īut given that this year was one giant dumpster fire, the fact that NASCAR got in all 36 races, plus the All-Star Race merits a special note. Ordinarily, the fact that we ran 36 races wouldn’t be notable. Hard to believe it’s already time for NASCAR by the Numbers, isn’t it? With another season in the record books (and what a year it was!) it’s time to look at what the numbers say about the year that was… The Races