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About this site

Unofficial NASCAR Statistics is an independent fan project, a NASCAR guide built for UK viewers who are new to the sport. It explains the jargon, shows every race in UK local time, and tries to make sense of a sport that assumes you already know it.

Not affiliated

This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with NASCAR or any team, driver, or sponsor. NASCAR is a trademark of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC. Trademarks are used here only to refer to the sport and its participants, nominatively, never to imply endorsement. There are no car liveries and no photographs on this site: just data, maps, and type. The one exception is that team and sponsor pages show each company's own website icon (favicon) at identification size beside its name, the way a browser bookmark does. All marks belong to their owners.

The flag colours

The site's colours are the flags officials wave at the track, green for racing, yellow for caution, red for stopped, checkered for the finish. They're generic to all of motorsport and nobody owns them. Yellow means caution everywhere on this site, not "yellow is a brand colour". The palette is meant to teach as much as decorate.

Where the data comes from

• Live timing, results, schedule and loop data, NASCAR's own public data feeds.
• Historical results (1949 onward), the nascaR.data package, itself sourced from DriverAverages.com.
• Reference facts and bios, Wikidata and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), with attribution.
• Official video, embedded from NASCAR's official YouTube channel. Nothing is rehosted.
• Broadcast details, hand-maintained and re-checked a couple of times a year.

Every data update is a commit to this site's own repository, validated before it's published. There's no database and no tracking. The site is free, has no adverts, and carries no monetisation of any kind.

Built for, and with, a newcomer

F1 apps assume you already know the sport. A UK NASCAR audience mostly doesn't, so this site puts the explanation first. If you're brand new, switch the reading mode to New here and every piece of jargon gets spelled out as you read.