By Adam Carabine Welcome to the StatChat NASCAR Games! If you’re new here, this year I thought it might be fun to share some of the silly little games I play on my NASCAR Excel Sheet throughout the season as we follow along. BRACKET GAMES These games are similar to NASCAR’s In-Season Tournament, as created by Denny Hamlin, but my version lasts all season long. Drivers are originally seeded by a mixture of performance from last year, with some creative discretion from m

By Adam Carabine Happy weekend everyone, it’s time for another edition of O’Reilly Stats Friday. This weekend the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series travels to Kansas City, Kansas for the Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway. Kansas is a 1.5-mile tri-oval speedway, built in 2001. Jeff Green won the first O’Reilly Series race there that same year. Brandon Jones won the most recent race at Kansas last year. Tomorrow’s race will be 200 laps long (for a total of 300 miles), with s

By Adam Carabine Welcome to the StatChat NASCAR Games! If you’re new here, this year I thought it might be fun to share some of the silly little games I play on my NASCAR Excel Sheet throughout the season as we follow along. BRACKET GAMES These games are similar to NASCAR’s In-Season Tournament, as created by Denny Hamlin, but my version lasts all season long. Drivers are originally seeded by a mixture of performance from last year, with some creative discretion from m

By Adam Carabine Happy weekend everyone, it’s time for another edition of O’Reilly Stats Friday. This weekend the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series travels to Bristol, Tennessee for the Suburban Propane 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Bristol is a 0.533-mile short track oval, with a concrete surface and heavy banking in the corners. The track was built in 1961, and has been a staple on the O’Reilly Series calendar since its inception in 1982. Phil Parsons won the first O’Reilly

By Adam Carabine Welcome to the StatChat NASCAR Games! If you’re new here, this year I thought it might be fun to share some of the silly little games I play on my NASCAR Excel Sheet throughout the season as we follow along. BRACKET GAMES These games are similar to NASCAR’s In-Season Tournament, as created by Denny Hamlin, but my version lasts all season long. Drivers are originally seeded by a mixture of performance from last year, with some creative discretion from m

By Adam Carabine Happy weekend everyone, it’s time for another edition of O’Reilly Stats Friday. This weekend the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series travels to Ridgeway, Virginia for the NFPA 250 at Martinsville Speedway. Martinsville is a 0.526-mile oval track, nicknamed “The Paperclip,” because of its uniquely tight corners and longer straightaways. It opened in 1947, though O’Reilly Auto Parts Series races started taking place the same year the series started – 1982. Sam Ard

By Adam Carabine Welcome to the StatChat NASCAR Games! If you’re new here, this year I thought it might be fun to share some of the silly little games I play on my NASCAR Excel Sheet throughout the season as we follow along. BRACKET GAMES These games are similar to NASCAR’s In-Season Tournament, as created by Denny Hamlin, but my version lasts all season long. Drivers are originally seeded by a mixture of performance from last year, with some creative discretion from m

LAS VEGAS (March 14, 2026) — Kyle Larson capitalized on a late restart to win Saturday’s LiUNA! at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, earning his first victory of the 2026 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series season. Photo: Elvin Anderson Jr. Driving the No. 88 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet for JR Motorsports , Larson positioned himself among the leaders after a late caution reset the field and created an opportunity to attack on fresh tires. “I left pit road third or fourth of the guys o

By Adam Carabine Happy weekend everyone, it’s time for another edition of O’Reilly Stats Friday. This weekend the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series travels to Las Vegas, Nevada for The LiUNA! at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Las Vegas is a 1.5-mile tri-oval speedway. It opened in 1971, though O’Reilly Auto Parts Series races didn’t start taking place there until 1997. Jeff Green won the first race there in this series. Justin Allgaier won this race last year in the spring, and Ari

By Adam Carabine Welcome to the StatChat NASCAR Games! If you’re new here, this year I thought it might be fun to share some of the silly little games I play on my NASCAR Excel Sheet throughout the season as we follow along. BRACKET GAMES These games are similar to NASCAR’s In-Season Tournament, as created by Denny Hamlin, but it lasts all season long. Drivers are originally seeded by a mixture of performance from last year, with some creative discretion from myself.

By Adam Carabine Happy weekend everyone, it’s time for another edition of O’Reilly Stats Friday. This weekend the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series travels to Avondale, Arizona for the GOVX 200 at Phoenix Raceway. Phoenix is a 1-mile oval with a signature dogleg just past the start/finish line. It served as the Championship Race for the past six years, though that has changed in 2026. The track opened in 1964, but the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series didn’t start racing there until 19

By Adam Carabine Welcome to the StatChat NASCAR Games! We are now three races into the 2026 season, and I thought it might be fun to share some of the silly little games I play on my NASCAR Excel Sheet. BRACKET GAMES These games are similar to NASCAR’s In-Season Tournament, as created by Denny Hamlin, but it lasts all season long. Drivers are originally seeded by a mixture of performance from last year, with some creative discretion from myself. Each week, whichever d