Power Rankings after Kentucky
Dale Earnhardt Jr. moves back atop the FOXSports.com/SPEED.com Power Rankings with his seventh top-five finish of the season, but the real high riser this week is Quaker State 400 winner Brad Keselowski.
This week’s list:
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FOX SPORTS NASCAR POWER RANKINGS
| RK | DRIVER | WINS | CHANGE | HIGH/LOW | COMMENTS |
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| 1 |
Dale Earnhardt Jr. |
1 | 1 | 1/13 |
Despite a couple of bad pit stops, Earnhardt rebounded to finish fourth. That wouldn’t have happened last year.
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Matt Kenseth |
1 | 1 | 1/13 |
All week long, Kenseth was in the news off the track. On the track at Kentucky, he struggled all night to stay in the top 10.
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Jimmie Johnson |
2 | - | 1/20 |
The new aero rules package bit Johnson, who was fast out front but slow buried in traffic.
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Brad Keselowski |
4 | 6 | 1/21 |
Bad Brad won in last year’s Martinsville car, a backup, after he wrecked in practice on Friday.
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Denny Hamlin |
2 | 3 | 1/12 |
Strong all night, Hamlin had an excellent third-place finish behind Keselowski and Kasey Kahne.
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Greg Biffle |
1 | 1 | 1/12 |
The king of 1.5-mile tracks so far this year, the Biff was knocked off the lead lap by a flat tire and finished 21st. Oops.
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Kevin Harvick |
0 | - | 1/13 |
Another OK night for Harvick, but 11th place isn’t going to cut it later in the season.
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Clint Bowyer |
1 | 2 | 3/19 |
You’re only as good as your last race, and Bowyer went from winning Sonoma to 16th in Kentucky.
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Tony Stewart |
2 | 5 | 1/15 |
Less than 30 laps into the race, Stewart had EFI problems resulting in a 32nd-place finish. Smoke was seething.
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Martin Truex Jr. |
0 | 1 | 3/13 |
He complained about his car having a bad push all night, but Truex still finished eighth, which was pretty good.
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Kyle Busch |
1 | - | 3/17 |
What could have — maybe should have — been a race-winning effort was thwarted by a self-inflicted error as Busch had a big wall-banger.
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Kasey Kahne |
1 | 5 | 2/22 |
What a rally: Kahne drove all the way from 31st to second place and for now has the second wild-card slot.
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Carl Edwards |
0 | - | 4/19 |
A pit stop with four laps to go meant Edwards finished 20th instead of third or fourth. He was clearly angry afterward and he should have been.
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Ryan Newman |
1 | 2 | 6/22 |
Catastrophic engine failure and a 34th-place finish capped a catastrophic night for Stewart-Haas.
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Joey Logano |
1 | 1 | 8/20 |
After the race, Logano was angry at Newman for allegedly running over him. The result was a 22nd-place finish.
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Paul Menard |
0 | - | 7/20 |
A 12th-place finish for Menard was just about average for his season so far.
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Marcos Ambrose |
0 | 2 | 14/21 |
Second in class among the Fords, Ambrose finished 13th.
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Jeff Gordon |
0 | 3 | 2/21 |
For once, nothing went wrong for Gordon, who earned just his second top-five finish of the season.
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Kurt Busch |
0 | - | 15/19 |
The older Busch made the second-highest number of green-flag passes in the race, behind only Kahne.
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Jamie McMurray |
0 | 2 | 14/20 |
An OK night for McMurray, who finished 15th.
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NASCAR Standings
| RK | Driver |
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| 1 | Jimmie Johnson |
| 2 | Carl Edwards |
| 3 | Matt Kenseth |
| 4 | Dale Earnhardt Jr. |
| 5 | Clint Bowyer |
| 6 | Brad Keselowski |
| 7 | Kasey Kahne |
| 8 | Kyle Busch |
| 9 | Aric Almirola |
| 10 | Kevin Harvick |
| 11 | Paul Menard |
| 12 | Jeff Gordon |
| 13 | Greg Biffle |
| 14 | Martin Truex Jr. |
| 15 | Jamie McMurray |
| 16 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr. |
| 17 | Ryan Newman |
| 18 | Kurt Busch |
| 19 | Joey Logano |
| 20 | Jeff Burton |
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