By the numbers: 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season
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Look back through the numbers and the most impressive stats from the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, with help from Racing Insights.
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Fourteen different drivers won a race in 2025, the fewest in a season since 2020 (13). Seven drivers won at least three races: Denny Hamlin (6), Shane van Gisbergen (5), Christopher Bell, Ryan Blaney (4), Chase Briscoe, William Byron and Kyle Larson (3).
The Modern Era record is eight (2016).
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Nine races were decided by a last-lap pass, setting a Cup Series record for most in a season.
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Fifteen races were won from the front row, the most in a single season since 1980 (17).
In addition, Joe Gibbs Racing won 13 poles, most among all teams, and the third straight season JGR had the most poles.
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Nine races had at least 30 lead changes, the most in a season since 1982 (13).
There were 835 lead changes, the third most in Cup history and most since 2011 (914).
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No races were postponed to another day due to rain for the first time since 2005.
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Iowa Speedway and Watkins Glen International were the first consecutive races in Cup Series history without a DNF.
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Three races had margins of victory larger than 10 seconds, the most since computerized timing and scoring was implemented in 1993.
Shane van Gisbergen was responsible for all three, with his largest victory coming at the Cup Series' debut in Mexico City (16.567 seconds).
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Josh Berry gave Wood Brothers Racing its first win on a 1.5-mile track since March 1993 (Atlanta) with his victory at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in March.
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In the Coca-Cola 600, Ross Chastain became the first driver to win from an official starting position of last since Bobby Allison at the Richmond Fairgrounds.
Chastain started 40th in the 2025 Coke 600.
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Austin Dillon's 107 laps led en route to his win at Richmond Raceway were the most for the No. 3 car in the Cup Series since Dale Earnhardt's 1998 Daytona 500 win.
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Ryan Blaney's Daytona regular-season finale win featured the closest known top-four finish in series history: 0.049 seconds.
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Thirty-four drivers had at least one top-five finish in 2025, the most in a season since 2001 (34).