Hendrick and JGR compared after 500 entry NASCAR | Sports News

While there are lots of groups in NASCAR vying for championships yearly, maybe none are more synonymous with profitable than Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) and Hendrick Motorsports.

Most just lately, Chase Briscoe, one of JGR’s drivers, gained at Pocono, with teammate Denny Hamlin incomes the No. 1 spot in NASCAR’s inaugural In-Season Challenge. Meanwhile, Hendrick stars Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson have but to seek out constant success this season, with the previous admitting he had “not really been relevant” for races this 12 months whereas the latter continues to seek out his type.

And for the reason that begin of the NextGen car period, the 2 groups have remained probably the most profitable within the sport. With each groups getting into their five hundredth entry, Daniel Cespedes took to social media to match how each groups have fared within the final 125 races, with each groups having virtually equivalent numbers. 

In their final 125 races, JGR drivers had an average end of 14.88 whereas Hendrick drivers carried out barely higher, with their average end being 13.98. The quantity of high 5s, high 10s, and high 20s is comparatively related between each groups as effectively. 

As a entire, JGR accrued 134 high 5s, 228 high 10s and 342 top-20 finishes. For comparability, Hendrick had 147 high 5s, 243 high 10s and 371 top-20 finishes in the identical time span. 

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The quantity of laps led by drivers of each groups are comparatively related as effectively, with Hendrick drivers having led 7.33 % of the time (9210 whole laps) whereas JGR just isn’t far behind at 7.12 % (8933). In phrases of stage wins, each groups are practically equivalent, with JGR amassing 67 wins to Hendrick’s 69. 

Hendrick does have more Championship 4 appearances (4) compared to JGR (two) however the distinction is negligible. One metric that Hendrick does closely outpace JGR in is the wins class, with drivers related to the previous having gained 36 races whereas JGR drivers have solely gained 27 occasions. 

Though Hendrick has more wins within the final 125 races, it’s clear each Elliott and Larson have struggled to seek out their consistency and type. In explicit, the 29-year-old Elliott gave an sincere evaluation of how he is raced thus far within the 2025 season. 

“The consistency, it’s good, but this deal really rewards winning,” he said before Pocono. “It’s not where I want to be, no doubt. I think that for us, there’s been some high spots. And to be honest, there’s been weeks where we’ve run well or maybe had a good finish — or even there’s been a couple weeks where we haven’t necessarily had a good finish — and I can go home and be like, ‘Man, we were in the mix. We had good pace today.’

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“It’s the days and weekends where we’re just not even relevant that I think are really the most frustrating to me. And we’ve had more of those than I want to have and that we want to have as a team. … Because it’s easy to throw in the towel on those days, just lose it and be done and go try again next week.

“But we as a whole, we don’t know any better and we just keep trying, keep pushing, and make the most out of whatever the day has brought us.” In the identical vein, whereas Larson is assured in his possibilities of profitable one other championship, he admitted his current type just isn’t the place he wish to be.

“I simply hope we don’t carry what we had the previous few weeks into the remaining of the season. Prior to the previous few weeks, we’ve been actually fast. It’s simply been a tough stretch, however we’ll proceed to go to work,” he mentioned after Pocono.