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NASCAR: Driver Power Rankings after Phoenix – Kevin Harvick takes over

By Asher Fair

AVONDALE, AZ - MARCH 11: Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 Skittles Sweet Heat Toyota, and Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Jimmy John's Ford, lead the field in a restart during the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series TicketGuardian 500 at ISM Raceway on March 11, 2018 in Avondale, Arizona. (Photo by Robert Laberge/Getty Images)
AVONDALE, AZ - MARCH 11: Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 Skittles Sweet Heat Toyota, and Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Jimmy John's Ford, lead the field in a restart during the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series TicketGuardian 500 at ISM Raceway on March 11, 2018 in Avondale, Arizona. (Photo by Robert Laberge/Getty Images) /
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AVONDALE, AZ – MARCH 11: Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 Skittles Sweet Heat Toyota, and Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Jimmy John’s Ford (Photo by Robert Laberge/Getty Images)
AVONDALE, AZ – MARCH 11: Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 Skittles Sweet Heat Toyota, and Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Jimmy John’s Ford (Photo by Robert Laberge/Getty Images) /

Which NASCAR Cup Series drivers rank where in the driver power rankings following the TicketGuardian 500 at ISM Raceway in Avondale, Arizona?

For the third consecutive NASCAR Cup Series race, Kevin Harvick took the checkered flag at the TicketGuardian 500 at ISM Raceway in Avondale, Arizona. Since wrecking in the Daytona 500 last month, he has yet to finish a Cup Series race lower than 1st place.

Harvick was not as dominant in Phoenix as he was in Atlanta and Las Vegas en route to victories in his #4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford, but he did enough to get the job done for his third win of the season, his ninth career win at Phoenix, and his 40th career Cup Series win.

In the last two-plus weeks, Harvick has racked up more victories than he did throughout all of last season — and he still managed to make it to the Championship 4 and finish in 3rd place in the championship standings last season.

As the series heads to Fontana to compete on the 2.0-mile Auto Club Speedway oval, the type of track that Kyle Larson has won the last four races at, will Harvick be able to secure his fourth straight Cup Series victory after securing his third straight for the first time in his career?

In the meantime, here are this week’s NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings. Check out our preseason article about the formula used to calculate these rankings or check out a previous edition of the rankings if you would like to know more about how they are computed.

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