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NASCAR Power Rankings: Chase Edition Week 9

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by Ryan Rantz, Special To NASCAR news, fantasy racing advice and statistics On Pit Row

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November 10, 2009 1:41 pm UTC 5 Comments

Change from last week

Who's Up

 Change from last week

Who's Down

Biggest Gain This Week:

Mark Martin: 3rd to 2nd

Biggest Drop This Week:

Juan Pablo Montoya: 4th to 6th
No new drivers this week. No drivers dropped out this week.
NASCAR Power Ranking On Pit Row

Rank: 1st

Jimmie Johnson- 6 Wins, 22 Top Tens

Jimmie Johnson has been Superman in the Chase this year but Sam "Kryptonite" Hornish Jr proved to us that Johnson isn't invincible. The only effect of the Johnson crash will be seen at Homestead when he's points racing for the fourth year in a row.

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Rank: 2nd

Mark Martin - 5 Wins, 20 Top Tens

Mark Martin got the job done at Texas. Martin didn't win or even lead a lap but he renewed his championships chances by finishing 4th. At Phoenix where Martin won earlier this year he needs to further reduce his points deficit to Johnson.

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Rank: 3rd

Jeff Gordon- 1 Win, 23 Top Tens

Jeff Gordon started on the pole at Texas but if I were to grade his race I would give him a D. Gordon needed a top five day at worst, and the 24 team had perhaps their worst intermediate track performance of the year.
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Rank: 4th

Kurt Busch - 2 Win, 19 Top Tens

After the way the 2 car performed at Texas it's to bad Pat Tryson will be leaving this team soon. I know if I were a crew chief I wouldn't want to leave Kurt Busch for Martin Treux Jr.

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Rank: 5th

Tony Stewart - 4 Wins, 23 Top Tens

Tony Stewart is a still a full race behind Johnson in the point standings. Their main goal this season was to make the Chase, but Talladega is what officially killed this teams chances.
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Rank: 6th

Juan Pablo Montoya - 7 Top Fives, 17 Top Tens

Montoya spent much of the Chase racing inside the top 5 but unfortunately it's starting to look inevitable that he won't finish there. I can't find any fault for a team that came virtually out of nowhere and was a legitimate threat.

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Rank: 7th

Denny Hamlin - 3 Wins, 18 Top Tens

Hamlin had a big day at Texas and moved up three positions up to 8th in the points. At Phoenix Hamlin should be able to lock himself inside the top 10 in points.
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Rank: 8th

Greg Biffle - 10 Top Fives, 16 Top Tens

Other then Kansas and Talladega I don't remember seeing Biffle at all in the Chase. Their performances haven't really been that great, but they have managed to avoid DNF's which is a key aspect of the Chase.
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Rank: 9th

Kasey Kahne - 2 Wins, 14 Top Tens

After a failing motor at Texas Kahne now is sitting tenth in the points only 41 points ahead of Carl Edwards. I don't expect much out of either of these drivers at Phoenix so Homestead will be the key as to who goes to Las Vegas.
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Rank: 10th

Ryan Newman - 5 Top Fives, 15 Top Tens

If Ryan Newman is going to finish inside the top ten this season then he must avoid his 22.9 average finish at Phoenix. Newman's only had 1 top ten at Phoenix since 2005.
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Rank: 11th

Carl Edwards - 7 Top Fives, 13 Top Tens

Carl Edwards may have been the biggest loser at Texas. Now Carl sits 11th in the points after his Texas wreck. If Carl doesn't finish in the top ten then he can forget about recognition at the 2009 awards banquet in Las Vegas.
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Rank: 12th

Brian Vickers - 1 Win, 13 Top Tens

I think this team will be impacted tremendously in 2010 by their Chase disaster. Even at their very best they barely made the Chase. With Kenseth, Earnhardt Jr (yes him), and RCR teams improving forget Vickers chances of making the Chase next year.

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5 Responses to “NASCAR Power Rankings: Chase Edition Week 9”

  1. Clark Hamilton on November 11th, 2009 8:51 am

    Forget Vickers making the Chase next season?! He’s friggin 26 years old and on a third year team. He’s only going to get better, not worse.

    Junior? Seriously? Wow.

  2. User Avatar Charlie Turner on November 11th, 2009 9:36 pm

    Clark, Ryan – I wouldn’t personally call the Red Bul performance in the Chase a disaster. More a case of a let-down after the stress and effort of earning Red Bull Racing’s first Chase appearance.

    But I can’t argue much with Ryan’s assessment that RBR will be a big under dog to any Roush, RCR or Hendrick team – including Junior’s – in 2010.

    Yeah, Vickers is young. So is Clint Bowyer, and he has a previous Chase on his resume and drives for a much more proven team than Red Bull.

    I like Vickers. But he was an upset Chaser and will be thought as such again next year.

    Great stuff as always Ryan.

    Thanks for the comment Clark.

  3. User Avatar Ryan Rantz on November 12th, 2009 8:48 am

    Talking about Vickers has always been one of my favorite topics. In NASCAR age isn’t a factor anymore. A well accepted NASCAR theory about just how good drivers are going to be is to observe how good they are after their third season. Vickers is now in his sixth full season. In six season’s Vickers has never won a competitive race. He’s won a fuel mileage race and accidentally won at Talladega by wrecking his teammate. Other then that there’s nothing there. Vickers has never had more then 5 Top fives in a single season. The main reason why Vickers made the Chase this season is because the level of competition is down this year. If Vickers wasn’t locked in the top 12 I would bet he would be about 17th by now.

    When I talk about Junior doing good next year I base it on
    1. I won’t draft him for my fantasy team next year so that should automatically help him
    2. He’s been running competitively for the most part since Indy. He’s just not finishing.
    3. Junior has made Chase every other year dating back to its inception
    4. The Chase turnover ratio is high (50% this year)

  4. Clark Hamilton on November 12th, 2009 11:20 am

    I understand the obstacle that is a a young Red Bull Racing team. To flat out say “forget about his chances next season” is a little too forthright though, even for a guy like me.

    I like Charlie’s approach much better.

    Your vision on him Ryan is, with all due respect, way off. He was as good as anybody on the cookie cutters entering the chase and is now even hovering around the top ten on the shorter varieties.

    Junior gets the “run well, just didn’t finish well” excuse yet the 83 doesn’t?

    And to talk about a guy and his performance based on his team and then mention Junior is laughable. He is on the best team in the sport yet not “finishing”. With lesser parts, Vickers has been outperforming him the entire season. If BV jumped in the 88, what would happen? He’d mysteriously “not finish” too?

    Love the debate guys, come say hi to us every now and then and fantasynascarnow.com.

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