HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Sunday at 3 p.m. ET, the final race of the 2015 season will get underway at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
In the meantime, take a look at some key statistics for the four Hendrick Motorsports drivers as you prepare to pick your lineups for DraftKings’ fantasy NASCAR league.
Up first is driver rating, which is a formula that combines wins, top-15 finishes, average running position while on the lead lap, average speed under green, fastest lap, most laps led and lead-lap finishes. The maximum a driver can earn in each race is 150 points. The driver rating number is used pre-race as a prediction tool and post-race as a performance evaluator.
Over the past 10 years at Homestead, Jeff Gordon ranks fifth with an average driver rating of 100.7. Jimmie Johnson is next in sixth with an average of 97.5. Kasey Kahne joins them in the top 10 with an average driver rating of 90.1 – good for 10th overall. Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s average driver rating of 79.2 in the past 10 seasons at Homestead ranks 16th.
Looking at NASCAR’s loop data from the past 10 years at Homestead, below are more key statistics, with how they rank among all drivers during that span in parentheses.
Fastest Laps Run
Jeff Gordon: 170 (second overall)
Dale Earnhardt Jr.: 149 (fourth overall)
Kasey Kahne: 108 (eighth overall)
Jimmie Johnson: 88 (12th overall)
Laps Led
Gordon: 237 (third overall)
Kahne: 107 (ninth overall)
Earnhardt: 75 (11th overall)
Johnson: 65 (12th overall)
Average Running Position
Gordon: 11.465 (fifth overall)
Johnson: 12.497 (seventh overall)
Kahne: 12.692 (eighth overall)
Earnhardt: 18.253 (17th overall)
Finally, below are career statistics for the four drivers at Homestead-Miami Speedway
KASEY KAHNE, NO. 5 GREAT CLIPS CHEVROLET SS
11 starts
0 wins
1 top-five finish
4 top-10 finishes
2 pole positions
107 laps led
9.6 average start
14.9 average finish
Trending: Kahne has finished inside the top 13 in each of the past two races at Homestead-Miami Speedway, and has an average finish of 11.7 in the seven most recent races at the track.
JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 AXALTA CHEVROLET SS
16 starts
1 win
7 top-five finishes
12 top-10 finishes
1 pole position
244 laps led
15.5 average start
10.6 average finish
Trending: In his past four races at Homestead-Miami Speedway, the four-time champion has not finished worse than 11th, earning two top-five finishes and a win in that span.
JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWE’S CHEVROLET SS
14 starts
0 wins
4 top-five finishes
9 top-10 finishes
2 pole positions
99 laps led
15.6 average start
14.4 average finish
Trending: The 40-year-old driver has earned back-to-back top-10 finishes in his past two trips to Homestead-Miami Speedway.
DALE EARNHARDT JR., NO. 88 NATIONWIDE CHEVROLET SS
15 starts
0 wins
1 top-five finish
2 top-10 finishes
0 pole positions
121 laps led
19.1 average start
20.3 average finish
Trending: The Kannapolis, North Carolina, native has finished inside of the top 15 in his last four trips to Homestead-Miami Speedway, including a career-best third-place finish in the 2013 event.
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