Random NASCAR Driver Generator

What Is the Random NASCAR Driver Generator?

The Random NASCAR Driver Generator spins through the current Cup Series field and lands on a driver.

The field is large by motorsport standards, which makes a random draw genuinely uncertain in a way a twenty car grid isn't.

How to Use the Random NASCAR Driver Generator?

1. 1

   Open the Random NASCAR Driver Generator. All 36 drivers load with equal odds, AJ Allmendinger, Alex Bowman and Austin Cindric among them.

2. 2

   Trim the field if your game calls for it: take AJ Allmendinger out for an underdog run, or keep only the drivers still in contention.

3. 3

   Press SPIN. The wheel settles on one of the 36 and the result card names your NASCAR Cup Drivers driver.

4. 4

   Drawing for a group? Turn on Remove Winners so Chase Briscoe cannot come up twice, then spin once per person.

5. 5

   Save the trimmed wheel under "My Wheels" and the next NASCAR Cup Drivers draw opens on your drivers rather than all 36.

Random NASCAR Driver Generator Use Cases

Race day watch party assignments, where everyone backs whoever the wheel gave them. Fantasy tiebreakers. Office pools for the bigger races.

Newcomers to the sport who want one car to follow round the track, which is by far the easiest way to start watching oval racing.

What Is on the NASCAR Cup Drivers Wheel

The wheel holds the whole NASCAR Cup Drivers field: 36 drivers, each with an identical slice. AJ Allmendinger, Alex Bowman, Austin Cindric, Austin Dillon, Brad Keselowski and Bubba Wallace are among them.

Equal slices mean the NASCAR Cup Drivers draw does not quietly favour the drivers you would expect it to. AJ Allmendinger comes up exactly as often as Chase Briscoe, which is the part that matters when the result has to look fair to everyone watching it land.

The NASCAR Cup Drivers field of 36 is wide enough that trimming is usually the first thing worth doing. Cut it to the drivers genuinely in contention and the wheel stops offering results the room will reject on sight, which is what makes people stop trusting a draw and start respinning it.

The Season Opens With Its Biggest Race

NASCAR does something no other major series does: it starts the year with its most prestigious event. The Daytona 500 is race one, which means a driver can win the sport's biggest prize before anyone has established any form at all.

Superspeedway racing produces the sport's signature spectacle, where cars run in tightly bunched packs at high speed because aerodynamic drafting makes running alone slower than running in traffic. It also makes multi car incidents close to inevitable.

That's why a random driver draw works so well for a first race. Pack racing means the leader changes constantly and outsiders win far more often than in series where the fastest car simply drives away.

Tips for Fair Draws

Backing a randomly drawn driver is the standard advice for anyone watching their first race, because following one car turns a pack into a story.

Trim to the playoff contenders if you want a draw with something at stake late in the season.