Eight stats you need to know for Chicagoland Speedway

Before the gusts of Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series stock cars hit the Windy City, take a look at these deep stats ahead of Sunday's Camping World 400 (3 p.m. ET on NBCSN, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), courtesy of Racing Insights.

Martin Truex Jr. tied Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch in the win column at Sonoma, earning his fourth triumph of 2019. But Busch still gets the nod come postseason with 10 races to go in the regular season. He has five stage wins and 25 playoff points, compared to Truex’s pair of stage wins and 22 playoff points.

Hoping for the Joe Gibbs Racing heater to end soon? Well that might not happen at Chicagoland looking at the trend as Kyle Busch (2018), Martin Truex Jr. (2016, ’17) and Denny Hamlin (2015) have won the past four Monster Energy Series races in the Windy City.

Although he has failed to record a victory, Kevin Harvick has earned a series-high 214 total race points on 1.5-mile tracks this season. Chase Elliott is second, 29 points behind Harvick in that column.

Chicagoland is one of only four tracks where seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson has fallen short of victory, finishing second in 17 attempts so far on the 1.5-miler. Johnson also owns 695 total laps led there, the most all-time in the series.

For some reason, it’s really not about where you start at Chicagoland. The 1.5-mile oval holds the worst average start all-time among race winners on active tracks at 14.94. New Hampshire is next in line with a 12.23 average start.

There’s only been two seasons where Stewart-Haas Racing drivers have failed to collect a checkered flag in the first 16 races of the season – 2011 and 2019.

The longest active streak for leading a race goes to Hendrick Motorsports drivers Chase Elliott and William Byron, each heading at least one circuit the past six races.

Toyota drivers have yet to score a pole with 16 races complete, the most since the manufacturer’s inaugural 2007 season at NASCAR’s highest level. Best starts in 2019 include a pair of seconds from Denny Hamlin at Las Vegas and Kyle Busch at Pocono.