About this site

Unofficial NASCAR Statistics is an independent fan project: a NASCAR guide for people in the UK who are new to the sport. It translates the jargon, puts every race in UK local time, and fills in the things American coverage assumes you already know.

Not affiliated

This site has no connection to NASCAR, or to any team, driver or sponsor. NASCAR is a trademark of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC, and trademarks appear here only to name the sport and the people in it, never to suggest anyone has endorsed us. You won't find car liveries or photographs anywhere on the site, just data, maps and type. The single exception is the tiny website icon shown next to a team or sponsor's name, at the size a browser bookmark uses, purely so you can tell one from another. Every mark belongs to its owner.

The flag colours

The colours here are the flags officials wave at the track: green for racing, yellow for a caution, red for stopped, chequered for the finish. They belong to motorsport generally and nobody owns them. The point is that they mean the same thing on every page. Yellow always signals a caution, so by the time you've read a few pages you're reading the flags without being told what they are.

Where the data comes from

Live timing, results, schedule and loop data come from NASCAR's own public feeds.
Historical results back to 1949 come from the nascaR.data package, which in turn draws on DriverAverages.com.
Reference facts and biographies come from Wikidata and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), always attributed.
Official video is embedded from NASCAR's YouTube channel. Nothing is rehosted here.
Broadcast details are maintained by hand and checked over a couple of times a year.

Every data update arrives as a commit to this site's own repository and is validated before it goes anywhere near a page. There's no database behind it and no tracking on it. The site is free, carries no advertising, and makes no money in any form.

Built for, and with, a newcomer

Most motorsport sites are built for people who already follow the sport. Almost nobody in Britain follows this one yet, so the explanation comes first here rather than as a footnote. If you're starting from nothing, set the reading mode to New here and the jargon gets unpacked as you go.