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2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Power Rankings - Week 19
RANK DRIVER TRENDING TOP 10s COMMENT
1 Kevin
Harvick
2
Last Week: 3 15 Bad pit stops = unhappy Happy. The last time I heard someone jump someone else's butt that hard over the radio was when me and my cousins crashed the truckers' channel on the CB and made bathroom noises.
2 Brad
Keselowski
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Last Week: 2 12 Failed to win his third race in a row. Oh well, I guess all those people who tweeted me are right, he's totally overrated.
3 Joey
Logano
3
Last Week: 6 12 All day Sunday I imagined all of his fellow New Englanders in their Big Papi jerseys screaming, "Hey ... HEY JO-AY! Noice jahb steerin' dat cahr, kid!"
4 Matt
Kenseth
4
Last Week: 8 8 He started his career 0-for-27 at Loudon but has won three of the past six. He's gonna need to put in a bigger pool to house all those giant lobsters he keeps winning.
5 Kurt
Busch
3
Last Week: 2 15 The Outlaw was en route to his first single-digit New Hampshire finish in six years before a flat tire after a restart. Perhaps he'll feel better knowing that a lot of guys had the same issue. OK, probably not.
6 Carl
Edwards
2
Last Week: 4 12 Speaking of dudes done in by one of those late restarts ...
7 Kyle
Busch
3
Last Week: 10 12 Past four finishes: seventh, second, 12th and eighth. The four races before that: 30th, 33rd, 31st, 40th.
8 Denny
Hamlin
1
Last Week: 7 8 So, do you think that deep down Hambone is like, "Dang, maybe I shouldn't have shared ALL of my New Hampshire notes with Kenseth ..."?
9 Martin
Truex Jr.
4
Last Week: 5 8 Led a lot of laps ... ran up front for a big chunk of the race ... posted a big Driver Rating ... suffered a mechanical problem and finished 16th ... rinse and repeat.
10 Ryan
Newman
1
Last Week: 11 7 I keep watching the replay of the big restart wreck involving Newman, Edwards, Larson, Kahne and others, and I still have no idea what happened. Maybe next time let's not all run similar red and white paint schemes?
11 Austin
Dillon
1
Last Week: 12 8 Stuff I have learned over the past few weeks: (1) I didn't need a new Ghostbusters movie. (2) Temps over 100 degrees are never fun. (3) People hate it when I bring up the number on the side of Dillon's car.
12 Chase
Elliott
3
Last Week: 9 11 You know things are wonky at Hendrick Motorsports when two of the cars have two flat tires on the same late restart, the youngsters Elliott and Alex Bowman.
13 Jimmie
Johnson
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Last Week: 13 7 You know things are wonky at Hendrick Motorsports when this guy finally wins a pole at New Hampshire ... and then we don't hear much out of him the rest of the day.
14 Tony
Stewart
3
Last Week: 17 5 That's two top-5s in a row. This just in: "Smoke heats up in the summer" is apparently still a real thing.
15 Kyle
Larson
1
Last Week: 16 5 Finishing 17th wasn't really all that bad when you realize that, after his late spin, he finished the race with an entire soccer field's worth of sod packed up underneath his car.
16 Jamie
McMurray
3
Last Week: 19 5 Jamie Mac finished sixth. Coincidentally, I've eaten six Egg White Delight McMuffins this summer ... but none after 10:30 a.m. because of the travesty that is its continuing absence from the all-day breakfast menu.
17 Greg
Biffle
3
Last Week: 20 3 Don't look now, but Roush Fenway is quietly punching out top-10 finishes. That's a big deal. Not so long ago the only thing those folks were punching was the wall and their own faces.
18 Kasey
Kahne
3
Last Week: 15 6 You know things are wonky at Hendrick Motorsports when this guy finishes 25th ... and he was the second-highest finisher on the team.
19 Ricky
Stenhouse Jr.
2
Last Week: NR 4 Trevor Bayne drops out of the rankings but is replaced by his teammate, underlining what we just said about Biffle.
20 Dale
Earnhardt Jr.
6
Last Week: 14 6 Nope, no "you know things are wonky at Hendrick Motorsports" crack this time. Whether you love or loathe Dale Jr. as a fan, we all need to be wishing him well during what has to be a terrifying time

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2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Power Rankings - Week 20
RANK DRIVER TRENDING TOP 10s COMMENT
1 Kyle
Busch 6
Last Week: 7 15 His Brickyard performance was arguably the most dominant in the Brickyard 400's 20-plus year history. The dozens in attendance were moved to tears.
2 Kevin
Harvick 1
Last Week: 1 16 We have officially settled into the Harvick Isn't Winning But Keeps Finishing Top-10 portion of the season.
3 Joey
Logano
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Last Week: 3 13 His seventh-place finish was his seventh top-10 in eight weeks. His boss, Roger Penske, has won 16 Indianapolis 500's, one for every fan in attendance for Sunday's Brickyard 400.
4 Matt
Kenseth
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Last Week: 4 9 His past 10 races: fourth, first, seventh and seventh ... followed by 14th, 20th and 28th ... followed by eighth, first and second. Wheeee!!
5 Brad
Keselowski 3
Last Week: 2 12 Since his back-to-back wins he has finished 15th and 17th. His boss, Roger Penske, is still seeking his first Brickyard 400 win. But hey, Cap, if a team wins a race in front of empty grandstand, does it even really count?
6 Kurt
Busch 1
Last Week: 5 15 Even as sparse as the crowd was on Sunday I could still hear one guy who booed Busch every time he drove by.
7 Denny
Hamlin 1
Last Week: 8 9 Hambone's finish meant that Joe Gibbs Racing placed first, second and fourth. They've never finished 1-2-3. And that's pretty much the only thing they've never done.
8 Martin
Truex Jr. 1
Last Week: 9 9 Ran near the front for most of the race ... posted a big Driver Rating, second only to Kyle Busch ... tripped up late and finished eighth ... rinse and repeat.
9 Carl
Edwards 3
Last Week: 6 12 I want to thank Cuz because his bad luck day that ended with a 35th-place finish is the only thing that made me realize that Patrick Carpentier, who finished 34th, was in the race.
10 Jimmie
Johnson 3
Last Week: 13 8 Making Hendrick Motorsports history is always great, as he did via the team's 1,000th top-5 finish. But making recent history -- the team's first top-5 in six weeks and his first since May -- is way more important in the here and now.
11 Austin
Dillon
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Last Week: 11 9 Race fans have asked me how I think Dale Earnhardt would feel about someone else driving No. 3 at Indy. I think he'd be much more concerned about no one sitting in Turn 3 at Indy.
12 Chase
Elliott
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Last Week: 12 11 At one point in the race Jeff Gordon, in the 88, came over the radio and explained something he could do that would help the 24 car, which he wasn't driving. Just hearing that aloud pulled my brain like it was my hamstring.
13 Tony
Stewart 1
Last Week: 14 5 Immediately following his 11th-place run, emotional cool-down lap and hugging it out with Jeff Gordon, Smoke said he wasn't sure he was ready for his racing to be over. Cue text from Clint Bowyer, "U SERIOUS BRO?"
14 Kyle
Larson 1
Last Week: 15 6 Kyle Larson spent his entire young life dreaming of racing at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. I'm curious, Kyle, in the dream were there people watching it?
15 Ryan
Newman 5
Last Week: 10 7 Is he gonna make us do math all the way up until the final lap at Richmond again? Yes, yes he is. He's an engineering graduate. He loves math.
16 Jamie
McMurray
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Last Week: 16 5 Still no second Brickyard win for Jamie Mac. And still no Egg White Delight McMuffins on the all-day breakfast menu. I have noticed that another chain has added a similar item. It rhymes with Mick Beret.
17 Kasey
Kahne 1
Last Week: 18 6 Ol' Blue Eyes is a two-time Pocono Raceway winner and the only driver to try to trim the tops of the Pocono trees using the bottom of his race car.
18 Ricky
Stenhouse Jr. 1
Last Week: 19 4 Biffle and Bayne drop as Stenhouse climbs back in. Man, Roush Fenway Racing slingshots around these rankings like a roller derby team.
19 Paul
Menard 2
Last Week: NR 2 This week only! Sale on gently-used aluminum seating at all Indianapolis area Menards stores!
20 Dale
Earnhardt Jr.
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Last Week: 20 6 Sorry to see he wasn't at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday. Then again, he certainly wasn't alone.