Driver Success in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: The Impact of Multi-Car Teams

Craig Depken and Larisa Mackey
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Larisa Mackey: Belk College of Business, University of North Carolina - Charlotte

No 915, Working Papers from International Association of Sports Economists, North American Association of Sports Economists

Abstract: This paper explores the impact of multi-car teams on driver wins, total points, and total earnings in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for the years of 2005 through 2008. Early in NASCAR’s history, multi-car teams were rare as the conventional wisdom was that multi-car teams would have poor chemistry which would negatively impact driver performance. Recently, however, multi-car teams have become more popular. Using season-level data, we show that multi-car teams generally enjoy a competitive advantage on the track over single-car teams but that diminishing returns to the number of cars on a team mitigates the motivation for arbitrarily large teams.

Keywords: peer effects; returns to scale; motor sports (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 L25 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2009-11
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