Jeff Gordon Race Preview

Posted on October 13th, 2011 by Fantasy NASCAR Cheat Sheet

Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway

Jeff Gordon is driving the #24 Drive to End Hunger / Chevy 100th Anniversay Chevrolet in the Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Saturday Oct 15, 2011. Gordon enters the race ranked 10th in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points standings with 2114 points for the 2011 season. He is 4 points behind Dale Earnhardt Jr. for 9th. Jeff lost 1 position in the standings after the last race.

Jeff is coming off a sub-par 34th place finish in the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway.

Fantasy NASCAR Driver Points to Expect from Jeff Gordon

For your fantasy NASCAR team you can expect around 31 driver points to be earned by Jeff Gordon this race at Charlotte as that is his average points earned (under the new 2011 NASCAR points system) over the last five races here.

Jeff Gordon Career at Charlotte Motor Speedway

Jeff Gordon has raced at Charlotte Motor Speedway 37 times in his career. Gordon has led a total of 672 laps at Charlotte in his career. That total coming from 25 races.

Jeff Gordon's best start at Charlotte Motor Speedway is 1st and his best finish here is 1st

Gordon has a career average start position of 10th and a career average finish position of 16th at Charlotte. His career race result numbers at Charlotte are:

PolesWinsTop-5Top-10Top-15Top-20
8 (22%)5 (14%)16 (43%)20 (54%)21 (57%)23 (62%)

Jeff Gordon on Intermediate's

Charlotte Motor Speedway is a 1.50-mile quad-oval and considered a intermediate by NASCAR.

Gordon has started 234 intermediate races in the NASCAR Cup Series over his career. Here is the breakdown on his intermediate races.

PolesWinsTop-5Top-10Top-15Top-20
25 (11%)29 (12%)104 (44%)137 (59%)160 (68%)171 (73%)

His best start on a intermediate is 1st and his best finish is 1st.

Jeff Gordon NASCAR Loop Data Last Five Races at Charlotte

Jeff has a respectable average loop data driver rating over the last five races at Charlotte Motor Speedway of 92.14. His highest Loop Data Driver Rating during this time is 128.20 and his lowest is 56.00

During the last five Charlotte Motor Speedway races Gordon has an average Average Running Position of 11.8. He has spent 67.2% of the races running in the top-15.

Jeff Gordon Traditional Statistics Last Five Races at Charlotte

Gordon has an average start position of 7.8 over the last five races at Charlotte Motor Speedway. His average finish position is 13.4.

PolesWinsTop-5Top-10Top-15Top-20
1 (20%)0 (0%)1 (20%)2 (40%)3 (60%)4 (80%)