Breaking Down the Most Wreck Prone Tracks in NASCAR.

I did a little dive on tracks that had the most wrecks all time. I limited this to tracks that were current and had a minimum of 10 races (this excluded Langhorne and Rockingham).

This is based on historical data from racing reference. If a car is marked as accident, it’s due to it not finishing the race for some sort of physical damage.

Others are marked as engine, gasket, etc for mechanical failures.

From this data, anything not marked running at the end of the race is out, so these would all likely constitute significant wrecks.

The historical pull popped out a crazy outlier of 1957’s Santa Clara Fairgrounds dirt race, which eliminated pretty much the entire field (17 out of 22 cars). Trying to find footage of that somewhere if anyone has it!