Power Ranking the Drivers After 2nd Month of NASCAR Season

Nine down...a long way still to go. Nonetheless, with the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season now officially one-quarter completed, a clearer picture is beginning to emerge of which drivers and their teams are most likely to battle for the championship come November. The last four races have been won by Joe Gibbs Racing drivers, with Kyle Busch winning back-to-back at Martinsville and Texas, while Carl Edwards took the last two on the short tracks of Bristol and Richmond. Throw in Denny Hamlin's victory in the season-opening Daytona 500, and JGR Toyotas have captured five of the first nine races. About the only bump in the road so far for JGR came when Edwards applied the bump-and-run technique to nudge Busch out of the way and take the win at ...

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