Crashing ruins the promise of a race day for NASCAR betting fans as well as drivers. It is possible for multiple cars to slide sideways at some tracks, sending the unluckiest among them taking heavy damage and ending their events early. Bookies.com crunched the data and found out which NASCAR drivers wreck the most and which wreck the least.

See the rest of the current NASCAR Cup Series drivers ranked by the percentage of races they have finished in their careers here.

• Which NASCAR Drivers Fail To Finish Most Often?

  Driver	Career Starts	Running At Finish (RAF)	Crash Rate
  Cody Ware	66	44	33%
  Todd Gilliland	11	8	27%
  Harrison Burton	12	9	25%
  Michael McDowell	404	263	23%
  Austin Cindric	18	14	22%
  Justin Haley	47	38	20%
  B.J. McLeod	94	77	18%
  Corey Lajoie	175	145	17%
  William Byron	155	132	15%
  Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	339	292	14%
  Kyle Larson	270	233	14%
  Cole Custer	86	74	14%
  Bubba Wallace	159	139	13%
  Tyler Reddick	85	74	13%
  Erik Jones	194	169	13%
  Chase Briscoe	47	41	13%
  Ross Chastain	126	111	12%
  Ryan Blaney	245	215	12%
  Josh Bilicki	77	68	12%
  Christopher Bell	83	73	12%
  Aric Almirola	399	352	12%
  Martin Truex Jr.	596	531	11%
  Daniel Suarez	190	169	11%
  Kurt Busch	767	684	11%
  Kyle Busch	617	551	11%
  Alex Bowman	236	209	10%
  Chase Elliott	232	209	10%
  Chris Buescher	233	209	10%
  Austin Dillon	311	284	9%
  Joey Logano	482	442	8%
  Brad Keselowski	460	425	8%
  Denny Hamlin	589	542	8%
  Ty Dillon	177	163	8%
  Kevin Harvick	765	723	5%

• Behind The NASCAR Crash Numbers

  You may be surprised by some of these numbers. First, it’s obvious that the Dillon boys are grandchildren of a race team owner because they know how to take care of equipment. Harvick, for example, has averaged fewer than two DNFs per season over a period of two decades. Good drivers don’t just compete but also avoid other drivers’ messes, and the prospect of a crash shouldn’t deter any bettor from backing them.

• McDowell in the Fast-Lane

  McDowell is on the other end of this list. Firstly, he won the 2021 Daytona 500, so we know he can race at a high level in extremely tight traffic. The reason why McDowell’s crash rates are so high is that he raced for lower-end teams during the “start-and-park” era following the 2008 financial crash-when sponsors dried up, NASCAR race fields got sparse, and shoestring teams were able to collect a few grand by taking the checkered flag, coasting at the back for a few laps, and then reporting a breakdown.

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