Using the stats put together again by USA Today we can see another place where championships are won and lost, and who just seems to be a nuisance on the track week in and week out. Tab 2 of the graphic shows crashes by driver. Rick Mears is quoted saying, "To finish first you must first finish." I'll add that a clean race car can help quite a bit. You don't see many wrinkled up race cars in those Victory Lane photo's. David Reagan had 22 crashes last year. That's over 60% of his races, and the largest number of crashes in one year as far back as 2003. It was his rookie year though. Second behind him? You guessed it, Robby Gordon. 16 crashes in '07 to beat out all of the other rookies. The data gathered only included drivers that started 30 races or more. I was looking for some other names when I realized that fact. I couldn't expect them to include all active drivers for the last 5 years, that would be quite a list. The fewest crashes is a tie with Kevin Harvick and Jeff Gordon having only 3. Kevin had the least number of DNF's this year, also. Others I'll mention are Rookie Paul Menard with only 6, and J. J. Yeley who went from 17 in '06 to only 9 in '07. Clint Bowyer also cut his numbers in half from 10 in his rookie year to just 4 in '07. A lesson to any young driver looking to make the chase and win races in only two years. Keep that sponsors name looking good on the side of your car, and you'll go places.