New Hampshire Motor Speedway by the Numbers

Flat, and technical. In our system New Hampshire carries the same two tags as Richmond. The format is Flat: a low-banking oval where the driver matters more than the car. The skill tag is Technical Oval: the bucket for tracks where precision and tire management beat raw pace. Both classifications carry weight in the projection model, so who has been good on these track types this season is not trivia. It is an input.

Hamlin6.3

Blaney8.6

Gibbs9.8

Blaney6.3

Hamlin6.9

Logano7.6

The two lists barely move: Denny Hamlin and Ryan Blaney sit one-two on both, in opposite order. Track-type form is one of the signals inside Thursday's projections; the full track profiles live in the research library.

The front row became the whole race. Since 2005 the average winner here started 10.3, and 15 of 34 winners came from outside the top 10. Every one of those 15 happened before 2022. The four races since then went 5, 2, 4, 2.

Only 13 of 34 dominators won. Races since 2005 won by the driver who led the most laps. Leading here has never been the same thing as winning here, which is what makes the new track-position era worth noticing.

One groove, and almost no banking. The corners are banked between 2 and 7 degrees and the straights are nearly flat. There is one preferred lane, passing is hard, and clean air is worth more here than at most ovals on the schedule.

19 different winners in 34 races. Wins since 2005. Nobody has run away with this place.

Hamlin3

Keselowski2

Hamlin798

Denny Hamlin has led 798 laps here and is the only driver in Sunday's field inside the top three all-time. He also has the most starts of anyone entered, and three wins.

Josh Berry has the best average in the field. Josh Berry has two Cup starts at Loudon, 3rd in 2024 and 2nd in 2025, for a 2.5 average finish. Two races is two races, but nobody else entered is under 9.

The entered field

Driver	Starts	Wins	Top 10	Avg	Laps led
Josh Berry	2	–	2	2.5	10
Denny Hamlin	32	3	19	9.9	798
Kyle Larson	15	–	9	10.9	26
Brad Keselowski	25	2	16	11.0	598
Christopher Bell	6	2	4	11.2	192
Chase Briscoe	5	–	3	12.8	25
Tyler Reddick	6	–	3	12.8	53
Ryan Blaney	13	1	5	13.5	185
Chase Elliott	12	–	4	13.9	143
Carson Hocevar	2	–	–	14.0	–
Joey Logano	27	2	15	14.4	279
William Byron	8	–	1	15.3	9
Ross Chastain	7	–	4	15.4	3
Austin Dillon	16	–	2	17.4	15
Erik Jones	10	–	2	17.8	4
Daniel Suarez	10	–	3	18.3	–
Austin Cindric	4	–	–	18.5	–
Todd Gilliland	4	–	–	19.3	19
Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	18	–	3	20.3	14
Ryan Preece	7	–	–	20.6	–
Bubba Wallace	8	–	2	20.8	–
Chris Buescher	12	–	1	20.8	–
Cole Custer	5	–	1	21.6	–
Riley Herbst	1	–	–	22.0	–
A.J. Allmendinger	22	–	1	22.1	13
Ty Dillon	9	–	–	23.0	–
Alex Bowman	14	–	1	23.7	–
Noah Gragson	3	–	–	25.0	–
John Hunter Nemechek	3	–	1	26.0	–
Ty Gibbs	3	–	–	26.0	–
Zane Smith	2	–	–	28.5	–
Michael McDowell	23	–	1	29.8	1
Shane van Gisbergen	1	–	–	32.0	–
Cody Ware	4	–	–	32.8	2
Austin Hill	–	–	–	–	–
Connor Zilisch	–	–	–	–	–

Every New Hampshire Cup winner since 2005