K&N Pro Series East Statistical Advance: Greenville (#nascar #kneast)

Analyzing The Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet 150

Sergio Peña has a NASCAR K&N Pro Series East victory at Greenville Pickens
Speedway in his pocket from September 2011. (Getty Images for NASCAR)

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The NASCAR K&N Pro Series East heads to Greenville (S.C.) Pickens Speedway on Saturday, March 22 for the Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet 150, the season’s fourth event. Below is a look at the performance of the series and selected drivers at Greenville, as well as, some other statistical trends:

Greenville Race Setup

• Sergio Peña is part of an impressive list of NASCAR K&N Pro Series East winners at Greenville that includes Austin Dillon, Dylan Kwasniewski, Joey Logano and Darrell Wallace Jr., who is the only multi-time series winner at the track.
• Eddie MacDonald, who broke a 53-race winless streak with a triumph on March 15 at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway, leads active drivers with 10 GPS starts and four top-five finishes.
• Track position is critical in short-track racing, and Greenville is no exception. The average starting position for the 11 race winners is 3.18.

Greenville Pickens Speedway

History

• Opened on July 4, 1946 as a dirt track. The race surface was converted to asphalt in April, 1970.
• Held 29 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races from 1951-71, including the first flag-to-flag televised event.
• David Pearson (1959) and Ralph Earnhardt (1965, 66) are among the famed drivers that have won championships at the track.
• Junior Miller won a pair of NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour races at Greenville in the 2006-07 seasons.

Notebook

• This is the series’ 12th visit to the historic South Carolina track.
• The NASCAR K&N Pro Series East held its inaugural Greenville Pickens Speedway race on June 6, 2006 and has returned every year since. This is the fourth straight season that the track has held two events.
• The Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet 150 will be telecast on a delayed basis by FOX Sports 1 on Friday, March 28 at 11 a.m.
• Brandon Gdovic took the checkered flag in this event last year while eventual series champion Dylan Kwasniewski won the September event. Darrell Wallace Jr. is the only driver in the first 11 races at GPS to earn two victories.
• In the first 11 NKNPS East events there have been three drivers that have won from the pole: Joey Logano (2007), Moffitt (2011) and Kwasniewski (2013). Moffitt also set the track qualifying record in 2011.
• Logano, Austin Dillon (2008), Gdovic (2013) and Wallace (2010) earned their first career NKNPS East wins in events at Greenville.
• The most cautions for a K&N East race at Greenville is 13 on two occasions (2006, 2010) while the fewest is one in the September 2013 race. The most caution laps (79) came in the inaugural 2006 race while the fewest was eight in September 2013.
• In 11 races the lead has changed hands an average of 3.55 times with a high of eight changes in 2009.
• The average starting position for the winner is 3.18 while the pole sitter has an average finish of 6.45.