CONCORD, N.C. – No matter how it’s framed, Kyle Larson has done nothing but add to a career's worth of impressive stats in 2024.
He’ll enter the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, set to start with a trip to Atlanta Motor Speedway on Sunday, as the points leader thanks in large part to a season-best four wins. He nearly added a fifth in the regular season finale at Darlington, leading 263 laps before late restarts shuffled the field.
Certainly, he’s on the shortest list of favorites in the 16-driver, postseason field to claim a championship. If the driver of the No. 5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 is able to pull it off, it will mark his second such title, matching the one he claimed in 2021.
Here’s a look at Larson’s 2024 by the numbers as well as a deep dive into his statistics at the 10 tracks that will make up the playoffs.
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2024 season
- Starts: 25
- Wins: 4
- Average start: 9.2
- Average finish: 13.6
- Top fives: 10
- Top 10s: 13
- Laps led: 1,088
Playoff career
- Playoff appearances: 7
- Starts: 50
- Best playoff finish: 1st (2021)
- Wins: 8
- Average start: 9.2
- Average finish: 11.3
- Top fives: 19
- Top 10s: 30
- Laps led: 2,027
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Career starts at playoff tracks
- Phoenix Raceway: 20
- Talladega Superspeedway: 19
- Martinsville Speedway: 19
- Kansas Speedway: 19
- Las Vegas Motor Speedway: 16
- Bristol Motor Speedway: 16
- Atlanta Motor Speedway: 13
- Homestead-Miami Speedway: 10
- Watkins Glen International: 9
- Charlotte Roval: 5
Career average finish at playoff tracks
- Las Vegas Motor Speedway: 9.3
- Phoenix Raceway: 11.4
- Bristol Motor Speedway: 11.6
- Watkins Glen International: 12.2
- Kansas Speedway: 12.3
- Homestead-Miami Speedway: 13
- Martinsville Speedway: 16.7
- Charlotte Roval: 17.4
- Atlanta Motor Speedway: 18.8
- Talladega Superspeedway: 22.8
Career wins at playoff tracks (12 of 27 career victories)
- Las Vegas Motor Speedway: 3
- Kansas Speedway: 2
- Watkins Glen International: 2
- Charlotte Roval: 1
- Martinsville Speedway: 1
- Homestead-Miami Speedway: 1
- Bristol Motor Speedway: 1
- Phoenix Raceway: 1
Career laps led at playoff tracks
- Bristol Motor Speedway: 889
- Kansas Speedway: 702
- Las Vegas Motor Speedway: 628
- Homestead-Miami Speedway: 625
- Atlanta Motor Speedway: 440
- Phoenix Raceway: 382
- Martinsville Speedway: 296
- Charlotte Roval: 60
- Talladega Superspeedway: 54
- Watkins Glen International: 38
Career top-10 finishes at playoff tracks
- Phoenix Raceway: 12
- Las Vegas Motor Speedway: 12
- Kansas Speedway: 11
- Bristol Motor Speedway: 11
- Martinsville Speedway: 7
- Homestead-Miami Speedway: 5
- Watkins Glen International: 5
- Atlanta Motor Speedway: 4
- Talladega Superspeedway: 3
- Charlotte Roval: 1