NASCAR Fantasy 50 rankings

by Gerrit Ritt, FOXSports.com

Updated: May 14, 2008, 5:05 PM EST 4 comments

NASCAR Fantasy Fifty
Rk	P	A	Driver	Comment
1			Kyle Busch	Has become the class of the field this season, winning Darlington was huge
2			D. Earnhardt, Jr.	4th place gives him 4 top fives and 8 top 10s, but when will he win one?
3			Jeff Burton	11 races this season and 11 trips inside the top 13 - that's impressive
4	6		Denny Hamlin	7th place this week gives him 6 top 7 finishes in last 7 races, that'll work
5	7		Carl Edwards	Didn't lead a single one of the 367 laps, but finished 2nd anyhow, 5th top 5
6	4		Clint Bowyer	15th at Darlington was actually his 1st time outside the top 10 in 8 races
7	8		Jimmie Johnson	Has placed 13th, 30th, 13th the last 3 races, yet still climbed to 6th in pts
8	7		Tony Stewart	Has now finished outside the top 20 in 2 of the last 3 weeks, still 8th in pts
9	11		Jeff Gordon	Despite leading 24 laps, was quiet most of the day, ended up finishing 3rd
10	9		Ryan Newman	Left the track after a wreck took him out, finished 37th, 72 laps back
11	10		Kevin Harvick	Sat out over 100 laps after hitting the wall, worst finish of the season, 39th
12			Martin Truex, Jr.	His team has his car running well of late, led 11 laps and finished 14th
13	19		David Ragan	This is a driver to watch all of a sudden, with 2 top 5s in the last 3 weeks
14	13		Greg Biffle	Qualified on the pole, yet finished dead last, something very wrong with that
15	17		Matt Kenseth	6th at Darlington was just his 5th top 10 of the year, he needed it badly
16			Bobby Labonte	Has now run in the teens 6 of 10 times this season, 18th at Darlington
17	14		Kasey Kahne	Has now finished 17th or worse in 6 of the last 8 races, was 22nd this week
18	15		Juan P. Montoya	Has placed 32nd and 23rd in the 2 weeks following his 2nd at Talladega
19	21		Mark Martin	Had a string of 3 straight top 10s going before coming in 16th at Darlington
20	24		Travis Kvapil	Coming alive, been in top 22 for 6 straight races, placed 8th at Darlington
21	23		Scott Riggs	16th, 19th and 17th the last 3 weeks has him moving up the ranks slowly
22	25		Kurt Busch	Former champion is now the lesser of the Busch brothers, 12th this week
23	26		D. Reutimann	18th, 20th, 22nd, 19th in last 4 races, 8 of 11 races have been in the top 23
24	18		Brian Vickers	Has placed between 23rd and 28th in 4 of the last 6 races, 25th this week
25	20		Paul Menard	Had 4 straight strong races before finishing 31st and 36th the last 2 weeks
26	27		David Gilliland	20th gives him his 4th top 20 in last 5 races, even led a lap at Darlington
27	29		J. McMurray	He looks to be making a little push lately, 11th gives him 5 of 6 in top 17
28	22		Casey Mears	Just can't figure Mears out this season, 4 top 15s, 5 in 35th or worse
29	33		Dave Blaney	Darlington was easily his best race of the year, starting 13th, finishing 9th
30	28		Elliott Sadler	Was out of contention within the race's first 50 laps, finished 42nd
31			Regan Smith	After placing 29th at Darlington, he still has just 1 top 20 run all year
32	30		Reed Sorenson	Was never in contention this week, placing in 32nd after starting 39th
33	37		Allmendinger	Has run in 3 straight and just put up his best finish with a 27th at Darlington
34	32		Robby Gordon	Just hasn't been his year, 8 of his last 9 races have been 24th or worse
35	36		M. McDowell	Has now run in 6 straight events and is averaging a finish of 31st
36	38		Michael Waltrip	His 700th career race turned out to be his best one in 6 weeks, 24th
37	34		Sam Hornish	Still trying to find the consistency in Sprint Cup cars, ended his day 38th
38	42		J.J. Yeley	Led his 1st lap of the year, but still finished in the 20s like he has 6 times
39			Joe Nemechek	Has been 25th, 29th and 31st the last 3 weeks, not too bad for the veteran
40	35		Kyle Petty	Had issues right from the start Saturday, ended in 41st, 117 laps behind
41	43		Bill Elliott	Darlington was his 1st race in almost a month, and he came in at 30th
42	41		P. Carpentier	Was last person in the field, but found no luck early on, ending day in 40th
43	40		Johnny Sauter	Missed his 2nd event in 4 weeks this Saturday, gonna see him drop a bit
44			Dario Franchitti	Has now missed a few races in a row after injuring himself last month
45			Mike Skinner	Missed his 5th race of the year, still trying to break into the top 20
46			Aric Almirola	Finished 8th, 42nd and 33rd in his 3 runs this season, missed Darlington
47			Jeremy Mayfield	Finished in the 30s 4 straight times before sitting the last 4 races out
48			Ken Schrader	Ended in 42nd 3 weeks ago, then failed to qualify for the past 2 races
49			John Andretti	Has made just 3 races all year, and has gone 40th, 35th and 40th
50			David Stremme	No Sprint races the last few weeks, placed 6th in Nationwide race, though

Just missed
Rk	P	A	Driver	Comment
51			Jon Wood	Made his 1st race of the season 2 weeks ago, placing 36th at Talladega
52	55		Marcos Ambrose	Australian rookie put up his 2nd Nationwide Top 10 this week, placing 10th
53			J. Villeneuve	Still hasn't had a start this year, no idea when that'll change at this point
54	52		Kenny Wallace	Dead last at Daytona, then hasn't run in any of the 10 races since
55	54		Scott Wimmer	Didn't race in either Sprint or Nationwide this week, 22nd in Nationwide pts

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