Jamie McMurray 2014 Review
By Richard Tix
Season Grade: B-
Jamie McMurray entered the 2014 season coming off one of his best seasons (2013) since 2010 when he won three races. IN 2014 he continued where he left off in 2013.
By the end of the season J Mac had more top 5's (7 compared to 4) and top 10's (13 compared to 9) in 2014 then he has the season prior. In fact, he hadn't had 13 top 10's since 2004 (23) and those 13 were a career second best (also had 13 in 2003). It has been a long and winding journey but in 2014 McMurray ended up getting back some consistency he had lacked lately.
However, he may have had some consistency but bad luck still followed him and ruined a bunch of race days. He ended up with an average finish of 16.2 (second only to 13.2 in 2004) on the season but had 6 finishes of 30th or higher. Which shows you he had a bunch of good runs to counter those bad finishes.
In his last 16 races he notched top 10's half of the time (8). The thing that sticks out the most to me is the way he finished the season. If you take away Talladega (35th) he has 3 top 5's in the last 6 races. The other two finishes in that time were 14th and 16th. So he ran well to end the season. Between he and Kyle Larson, Ganassi had a pretty good 2014 campaign and look to roll into 2015 on that run.
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