NASCAR: Post-Season Driver Grades
By Asher Fair
With the 2017 NASCAR Cup Series season now complete, which drivers looked great and which teams didn’t measure up? Here are the post-season driver grades.
The 2017 NASCAR Cup Series season is officially over now that the Championship 4 race, the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida is in the books.
How do the seasons of each of the full or close to full-time drivers grade since the 2017 season is now completely in the rearview mirror?
We’ll start with the drivers who drove for the Chevrolet teams before moving to those who drove for the Ford teams and then those who drove for the Toyota teams.
Chevrolet drivers
Premium Motorsports, Chevrolet
No. 15. Premium Motorsports, Chevrolet. REED SORENSON. F. Reed Sorenson did not drive for the whole 2017 NASCAR Cup Series season, but he did drive for most of it. His season was awful to say the least, as his top finish was just a 25th place result at Martinsville.
Circle Sport – The Motorsports Group, Chevrolet
F. After another season during which he drove in almost every race, Jeffrey Earnhardt is still without a top 25 finish in his NASCAR Cup Series career. His career-high and season-high finishes were just 26th place results, which he recorded three times. He only finished two of the three races during which he recorded those results.. No. 33. Circle Sport - The Motorsports Group, Chevrolet. JEFFREY EARNHARDT
TriStar Motorsports, Chevrolet
F. Cole Whitt recorded a career-high four top 20 finishes in the 2017 NASCAR Cup Series season, but he was unable to top his career-high 11th place finish. Only two of those top 20 finishes came in the last 34 races of the season, as he finished in the top 20 in each of the first two races of 2017. His best finish this season was 12th place in the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis.. No. 72. TriStar Motorsports, Chevrolet. COLE WHITT