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NASCAR Cup Series Championship

Track Information
Track Name:	Phoenix International Raceway
Location:	Phoenix, Ariz.
Track Type:	FLAT SHORT TRACK
Track Length:	1 miles
Track Layout:	OVAL
Banking:	11 Degrees
Seating Capacity:	78500
Home Page:	http://www.phoenixintlspeedway.com
Track Weather Info:	Phoenix International Raceway - Weather

Race Information
Race Name:	NASCAR Cup Series Championship
Date, Time:	11/6/2022, 3:00:00 PM EST
Race Number:	#36 of 36 races in the 2022 season
Track Name:	Phoenix International Raceway
Race Distance:	312 miles, 312 laps

Past Race Averages
Average race finish time:	0:3:00
Average Speed:	107.13 MPH
Average # of cautions:	7 - 42 laps
Average # of lead changes:	12
Average # of drivers leading:	6

NASCAR Cup Series Championship - Recent Top Finishers
Year	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
2021	Kyle Larson	Martin Truex	Denny Hamlin	Ryan Blaney	Chase Elliott
2020	Chase Elliott	Brad Keselowski	Joey Logano	Denny Hamlin	Jimmie Johnson
2019	Denny Hamlin	Kyle Busch	Ryan Blaney	Kyle Larson	Kevin Harvick
2018	Kyle Busch	Brad Keselowski	Kyle Larson	Aric Almirola	Kevin Harvick
2017	Matt Kenseth	Chase Elliott	Martin Truex	Erik Jones	Kevin Harvick
2016	Joey Logano	Kyle Busch	Kyle Larson	Kevin Harvick	Kurt Busch
2015	Dale Earnhardt, Jr.	Kevin Harvick	Joey Logano	Kyle Busch	Jimmie Johnson
2014	Kevin Harvick	Jeff Gordon	Matt Kenseth	Brad Keselowski	Denny Hamlin
2013	Kevin Harvick	Kasey Kahne	Jimmie Johnson	Dale Earnhardt, Jr.	Kurt Busch
2012	Kevin Harvick	Denny Hamlin	Kyle Busch	Kasey Kahne	Ryan Newman

The current season leaders in various stat categories are listed below.

Total Points

Chase Elliott - 1186

Joey Logano - 1092

Kyle Larson - 1082

Ryan Blaney - 1078

Ross Chastain - 1067

Christopher Bell - 1027

Martin Truex - 996

William Byron - 991

Denny Hamlin - 948

Kyle Busch - 900

Average finish

Chase Elliott - 12

Ross Chastain - 13.5

Joey Logano - 13.8

Christopher Bell - 13.9

Ryan Blaney - 13.9

Kyle Larson - 14.2

Kevin Harvick - 14.6

David Ragan - 14.8

Martin Truex - 14.9

Denny Hamlin - 15.7

Races won

Chase Elliott - 5

Kyle Larson - 3

Joey Logano - 3

Tyler Reddick - 3

Christopher Bell - 3

William Byron - 2

Ross Chastain - 2

Denny Hamlin - 2

Kevin Harvick - 2

Erik Jones - 1

Top 5 finishes

Ross Chastain - 14

Kyle Larson - 13

Chase Elliott - 12

Christopher Bell - 12

Ryan Blaney - 11

Denny Hamlin - 10

Joey Logano - 10

Tyler Reddick - 10

Kevin Harvick - 8

Kyle Busch - 8

Top 10 finishes

Ross Chastain - 20

Chase Elliott - 20

Christopher Bell - 19

Kyle Larson - 18

Joey Logano - 16

Kevin Harvick - 16

Ryan Blaney - 16

Kyle Busch - 16

Denny Hamlin - 15

Tyler Reddick - 15

Listed below is the projected starting order according to the StatFox race simulator. The simulator factors in recent qualifying performance, past qualifying results at this track and track type, and overall driver strength when projecting the qualifying order. Note: Once the official qualifying results are known, this section will be changed to reflect the official qualifying order. The simulator's projected finish order will also be updated.

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Projected Qualifying Order
Row	Position	Driver	Position	Driver
1	1	Kyle Larson	2	Ryan Blaney
2	3	Chase Elliott	4	Denny Hamlin
3	5	Christopher Bell	6	Joey Logano
4	7	William Byron	8	Martin Truex
5	9	Kurt Busch	10	Kyle Busch
6	11	Tyler Reddick	12	Kevin Harvick
7	13	Brad Keselowski	14	Ross Chastain
8	15	Chase Briscoe	16	Alex Bowman
9	17	Cole Custer	18	Daniel Suarez
10	19	Ty Gibbs	20	Chris Buescher
11	21	Aric Almirola	22	Daniel Hemric
12	23	Michael McDowell	24	Erik Jones
13	25	Bubba Wallace	26	Zane Smith
14	27	Austin Dillon	28	Austin Cindric
15	29	Todd Gilliland	30	Austin Hill
16	31	Justin Allgaier	32	Harrison Burton
17	33	John Hunter Nemechek	34	Noah Gragson
18	35	Justin Haley	36	Ryan Preece
19	37	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	38	Kimi Raikkonen
20	39	AJ Allmendinger	40	Ty Dillon
21	41	Joey Hand	42	Landon Cassill
22	43	Corey Lajoie

Listed below is the projected finish order according to the StatFox race simulator. The simulator factors in recent performance, qualifying position, past results at this track and track type, and overall driver strength when simulating the race. The race simulation is run 1000 times. For each driver, the table displays the number of race simulations they won, number of top 5 finishes, number of top 10 finishes, and number of times the driver failed to finish the race. In addition, the table displays the average finishing position for each driver and the projected odds of the driver winning the race.

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Simulator - Projected Order Of Finish
Order	Driver	Make	Sponsor	Qual.	Finish	Wins	Odds	Top 5	Top 10	Trouble
1	Chase Elliott	Chevrolet	NAPA Auto Parts	3 *	9.3	119	8.4 to 1	526	806	120
2	Christopher Bell	Toyota	DeWalt	5 *	10.2	120	8.3 to 1	491	767	141
3	Joey Logano	Ford	Shell Pennzoil	6 *	10.9	92	10.9 to 1	380	720	131
4	Kyle Larson	Chevrolet	HendrickCars.com	1 *	11.8	90	11.1 to 1	413	677	163
5	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	FedEx Freight Direct	4 *	12.4	60	16.7 to 1	296	543	125
6	Kevin Harvick	Ford	BOOsch Light	12 *	12.5	67	14.9 to 1	305	612	147
7	Martin Truex	Toyota	Auto-Owners Insurance	8 *	12.7	43	23.3 to 1	294	581	136
8	Bubba Wallace	Toyota	Leidos	25 *	13.4	54	18.5 to 1	259	559	161
9	Ryan Blaney	Ford	Discount Tire	2 *	13.8	39	25.6 to 1	252	543	168
10	Tyler Reddick	Chevrolet	3CHI	11 *	14	53	18.9 to 1	268	558	186
11	Ross Chastain	Chevrolet	Moose Fraternity	14 *	14.3	49	20.4 to 1	221	498	161
12	William Byron	Chevrolet	Liberty University	7 *	14.8	47	21.3 to 1	250	512	203
13	Alex Bowman	Chevrolet	Ally	16 *	16.5	27	37 to 1	138	321	158
14	Daniel Suarez	Chevrolet	Worldwide Expess	18 *	17.5	13	76.9 to 1	110	275	176
15	Chris Buescher	Ford	Fifth Third Bank	20 *	19.3	11	90.9 to 1	72	181	137
16	Brad Keselowski	Ford	Kohler Generators	13 *	20.1	6	166.7 to 1	59	160	136
17	Aric Almirola	Ford	Smithfield	21 *	20.5	12	83.3 to 1	66	148	149
18	Kurt Busch	Toyota	McDonald's	9 *	20.6	8	125 to 1	64	167	188
19	Austin Dillon	Chevrolet	Dow	27 *	20.8	10	100 to 1	54	141	144
20	Austin Cindric	Ford	Menards/Richmond	28 *	21.2	13	76.9 to 1	53	141	182
21	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	Pardon My Cheesesteak	39 *	21.3	7	142.9 to 1	57	115	124
22	Chase Briscoe	Ford	Rush Truck Centers/Cummin	15 *	21.4	7	142.9 to 1	43	116	157
23	Erik Jones	Chevrolet	U.S. Air Force	24 *	21.6	10	100 to 1	44	125	152
24	Noah Gragson	Chevrolet	Ally	34 *	22.1	13	76.9 to 1	59	135	230
25	Kyle Busch	Toyota	M&M's Halloween	10 *	22.3	6	166.7 to 1	40	113	153
26	Michael McDowell	Ford	Fr8Auctions.com	23 *	22.5	6	166.7 to 1	34	93	144
27	Cole Custer	Ford	HaasTooling.com	17 *	25.8	3	333.3 to 1	19	48	159
28	Justin Haley	Chevrolet	LeafFilter Gutter Protect	35 *	26.7	1	1000 to 1	14	43	161
29	Ty Gibbs	Toyota	Monster Energy	19 *	27.2	5	200 to 1	17	43	215
30	Ty Dillon	Chevrolet	U.S. Space Force	40 *	28	0	0 chance	14	33	229
31	Harrison Burton	Ford	Motorcraft/Quick Lane	32 *	28.7	1	1000 to 1	5	16	174
32	Justin Allgaier	Chevrolet	BRANDT	31 *	28.8	1	1000 to 1	17	32	216
33	Zane Smith	Ford	Acronis	26 *	28.9	1	1000 to 1	8	25	223
34	Austin Hill	Chevrolet	Bennett Transportation	30 *	28.9	1	1000 to 1	12	26	229
35	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Chevrolet	Kroger/Louisiana Hot Sauc	37 *	29.2	3	333.3 to 1	11	30	217
36	Corey Lajoie	Chevrolet	ARK.io	43 *	29.8	0	0 chance	9	28	233
37	Landon Cassill	Chevrolet	Nations Guard	42 *	29.9	1	1000 to 1	11	21	210
38	Todd Gilliland	Ford	Moji Sushi	29 *	30.1	0	0 chance	5	14	170
39	Joey Hand	Ford	Ford BlueOval City	41 *	31.9	0	0 chance	1	14	251
40	John Hunter Nemechek	Toyota	Columbia Sportswear Compa	33 *	32.5	1	1000 to 1	2	3	187
41	Ryan Preece	Ford	Hunt Brothers Pizza	36 *	33.1	0	0 chance	4	8	256
42	Daniel Hemric	Chevrolet	AG1 by Athletic Greens	22 *	33.8	0	0 chance	3	7	341
43	Kimi Raikkonen	Chevrolet	Recogni	38 *	35	0	0 chance	0	2	457

The top past performance trends relevant to this race are listed below. The results are sorted by average finish. To view a complete list of driver trends for the current race, browse to each driver's respective page.

Top performers over the last two seasons at track type= FLAT SHORT TRACK.

1.) Denny Hamlin's average finish at track type - FLAT SHORT TRACK is 8.0. In 13 races, he has 1 win and 10 top 10 finishes.

2.) Joey Logano's average finish at track type - FLAT SHORT TRACK is 8.0. In 13 races, he has 0 wins and 10 top 10 finishes.

3.) Christopher Bell's average finish at track type - FLAT SHORT TRACK is 8.2. In 13 races, he has 2 wins and 10 top 10 finishes.

4.) Ryan Blaney's average finish at track type - FLAT SHORT TRACK is 8.3. In 13 races, he has 0 wins and 9 top 10 finishes.

5.) Chase Elliott's average finish at track type - FLAT SHORT TRACK is 8.8. In 13 races, he has 0 wins and 8 top 10 finishes.

6.) Kevin Harvick's average finish at track type - FLAT SHORT TRACK is 9.0. In 13 races, he has 1 win and 9 top 10 finishes.

7.) Martin Truex's average finish at track type - FLAT SHORT TRACK is 9.1. In 13 races, he has 3 wins and 9 top 10 finishes.

8.) William Byron's average finish at track type - FLAT SHORT TRACK is 10.2. In 13 races, he has 1 win and 7 top 10 finishes.

9.) Kyle Larson's average finish at track type - FLAT SHORT TRACK is 11.2. In 13 races, he has 1 win and 7 top 10 finishes.

10.) Aric Almirola's average finish at track type - FLAT SHORT TRACK is 12.2. In 13 races, he has 1 win and 6 top 10 finishes.

Best career performers at Phoenix International Raceway

1.) Kevin Harvick's average finish at Phoenix International Raceway is 8.7. In 39 races, he has 9 wins and 28 top 10 finishes.

2.) Denny Hamlin's average finish at Phoenix International Raceway is 10.6. In 34 races, he has 2 wins and 20 top 10 finishes.

3.) Chase Elliott's average finish at Phoenix International Raceway is 10.7. In 13 races, he has 1 win and 8 top 10 finishes.

4.) Kyle Busch's average finish at Phoenix International Raceway is 10.7. In 34 races, he has 3 wins and 24 top 10 finishes.

5.) Kyle Larson's average finish at Phoenix International Raceway is 12.4. In 16 races, he has 1 win and 9 top 10 finishes.

6.) Brad Keselowski's average finish at Phoenix International Raceway is 12.9. In 26 races, he has 0 wins and 13 top 10 finishes.

7.) Joey Logano's average finish at Phoenix International Raceway is 13.1. In 27 races, he has 2 wins and 15 top 10 finishes.

8.) Ryan Blaney's average finish at Phoenix International Raceway is 13.5. In 13 races, he has 0 wins and 8 top 10 finishes.

9.) Kurt Busch's average finish at Phoenix International Raceway is 13.5. In 39 races, he has 1 win and 21 top 10 finishes.

10.) William Byron's average finish at Phoenix International Raceway is 13.8. In 9 races, he has 0 wins and 4 top 10 finishes.

Hot Drivers - Top performers over the last 3 races.

1.) Ross Chastain's average finish over the past 3 races is 2.7. In 3 races, he has 0 wins and 3 top 10 finishes.

2.) Denny Hamlin's average finish over the past 3 races is 5.7. In 3 races, he has 0 wins and 3 top 10 finishes.

3.) Joey Logano's average finish over the past 3 races is 8.3. In 3 races, he has 1 win and 2 top 10 finishes.

4.) William Byron's average finish over the past 3 races is 10.7. In 3 races, he has 0 wins and 1 top 10 finish.

5.) Martin Truex's average finish over the past 3 races is 11.0. In 3 races, he has 0 wins and 2 top 10 finishes.

Hot Drivers - Top performers over the last 10 races.

1.) Denny Hamlin's average finish over the past 10 races is 8.3. In 10 races, he has 0 wins and 8 top 10 finishes.

2.) AJ Allmendinger's average finish over the past 10 races is 9.2. In 5 races, he has 0 wins and 4 top 10 finishes.

3.) William Byron's average finish over the past 10 races is 11.8. In 10 races, he has 0 wins and 5 top 10 finishes.

4.) Ross Chastain's average finish over the past 10 races is 12.8. In 10 races, he has 0 wins and 6 top 10 finishes.

5.) Joey Logano's average finish over the past 10 races is 13.2. In 10 races, he has 1 win and 4 top 10 finishes.