CONCORD, N.C. -- Hendrick Motorsports has a stout history at road courses and have won six of the last seven road course events put on by the NASCAR Cup Series.
Chase Elliott has the most road course wins among active drivers with six career victories, including the inaugurual event at Circuit of the Americas. Kyle Larson is the most recent road course winner after he took the checkered flag at Sonoma Raceway on June 6.
William Byron and Alex Bowman have shown their strength on road courses, as well. In 24 combined starts with Hendrick Motorsports, the duo has posted three top-five finishes with 12 top-10s.
Take a look at some of the best stats Hendrick Motorsports holds at road courses as the four race teams make their way to the Winsconsin venue for this weekend’s race. Catch all the action at Road America starting Sunday at 2:30 p.m. ET on NBC.
- Through the last seven races, Hendrick Motorsports has six points-paying wins, five runner-up placements and has finished 1-2 in four of those races. Across all four teams, the drivers have totaled 17 top-five finishes, 21 top-10s, nine stage wins of the 15 completed and led a combined 1,203 of the 1,516 laps raced, or 79%.
- Hendrick Motorsports’ 22 road course victories have come at the hands of seven different drivers, the most of any team in Cup Series history. Jeff Gordon (nine), Elliott (six), Tim Richmond (three), Geoff Bodine (one), Jimmie Johnson, Larson, and Ricky Rudd all have brought home victories from the twisting venues.
- Through the first 19 races in the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season, Hendrick Motorsports already has nine wins, the second-most victories at this point in the year in organization history. The four teammates now will try to earn double-digit wins for the first time since 2014 when the organization took home 13 total wins. That season, Hendrick Motorsports drivers Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Johnson each had four wins and Kasey Kahne had one.
- In June at Sonoma Raceway, Larson won both stages and led 57 of 92 laps en route to his first Cup Series road course victory. Overall, he has 17 starts on road courses in the Cup Series with three top-five finishes, six top-10s and four stage victories (second-most all-time). In sports cars, Larson competed in the Rolex 24 at DAYTONA for Chip Ganassi Racing from 2014 through 2016 and was victorious in 2015.
- In June 2013, Larson competed in the NASCAR Xfinity race at Road America. After qualifying 13th, the Elk Grove, California, native drove the No. 32 entry to a seventh-place finish at the Wisconsin track.
- Elliott’s wins account for six of the last 10 road course victories. He is the youngest driver to have six road course wins and he remains the youngest road course winner at 22 years, 8 months, 8 days. Elliott has led laps in the last eight road course races, the Cup Series’ longest active streak. The driver of the No. 9 also holds the best average finish (8.73) of active drivers and the fifth-best all-time average of drivers with at least five starts. Elliott has also garnered the most stage wins (six) of all time at road courses.
- While Sunday will be Elliott’s first Cup start at Road America, he has already logged laps in two races at the 4.048-mile course in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. In those starts at Road America, he earned two top-five finishes – both fourth-place results – led 23 laps and averaged a starting position of 7.0 and finishing position of 4.0.
- Despite limited road course racing in his background, Byron has stepped up his road course skills during his time in the Cup Series, finishing in the top 10 in three of the last six races. In four of the last eight road course events, Byron has led the field, including leading the most laps during last year’s race at the Charlotte ROVAL. In fact, Byron led the second-most laps on road courses during the 2020 season.
- While Road America will mark a new experience for some, both Byron and crew chief Rudy Fugle have been to the Wisconsin-based road course one prior time in their NASCAR careers. Fugle called the shots on top of the pit box at Road America in the NASCAR Xfinity Series in 2015 while Byron’s one start also came in the Xfinity Series in 2017, where he raced to a sixth-place finish.
- In 2013, Bowman had one start at Road America in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. After starting 15th, he finished 24th after he was involved in an incident on the last lap of the 55-lap event. In the Cup Series, the Tucson, Arizona, native has 15 starts at road courses and has two top-five finishes and seven top-10s. Bowman has finished inside the top 15 in all 11 road course starts while behind the wheel for Hendrick Motorsports and has an average finish of 9.45, which is the third best among active drivers since the start of 2018. The No. 48 team has placed in the top 10 in all three road course events in 2021 and currently has a four-race streak of top-10 finishes, which ranks second among active drivers.