NASCAR Cup Series: Team Power Rankings after 2018 Food City 500 at Bristol
By Asher Fair
For the second straight NASCAR Cup Series race, Kyle Busch of Joe Gibbs Racing went to victory lane. How do the team power rankings look?
After failing to win any of the first six races of the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series season, it was beginning to look like last season for Joe Gibbs Racing when their first victory did not come until the 19th race of the season when Denny Hamlin won in New Hampshire.
However, Kyle Busch has now won the last two races for the team in his #18 Toyota at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas and now at Bristol Motor Speedway in the postponed Food City 500.
Through eight races in the 2018 season, only four different teams have gone to victory lane. In addition to Joe Gibbs Racing doing so twice, Stewart-Haas Racing have done so four times with three wins by Kevin Harvick and one by Clint Bowyer, while Richard Childress Racing and Furniture Row Racing have each done so once with one win by Austin Dillon and Martin Truex Jr. respectively.
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How have Busch’s two wins for Joe Gibbs Racing, the performances of the team’s other three drivers in these last two races that Busch has won, and everything else that has happened through the first eight races of the 2018 season affected the NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings?
With the Food City 500 at Bristol in the books and the 2018 season nearing the quarter mark, here is the eighth edition of the 2018 formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings in addition to the eighth edition of the 2018 non-formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings.
To see how the formulated rankings are calculated, click here.
Formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings
| Rank | Team | Manufacturer | Last Rank | Trend |
| 1 | Joe Gibbs Racing | Toyota | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Stewart-Haas Racing | Ford | 4 | +2 |
| 3 | Team Penske | Ford | 2 | -1 |
| 4 | Furniture Row Racing | Toyota | 3 | -1 |
| 5 | Chip Ganassi Racing | Chevrolet | 5 | 0 |
| 6 | Hendrick Motorsports | Chevrolet | 6 | 0 |
| 7 | Richard Childress Racing | Chevrolet | 7 | 0 |
| 8 | Wood Brothers Racing | Ford | 8 | 0 |
| 9 | Richard Petty Motorsports | Chevrolet | 9 | 0 |
| 10 | Roush Fenway Racing | Ford | 11 | +1 |
| 11 | JTG Daugherty Racing | Chevrolet | 10 | -1 |
| 12 | Front Row Motorsports | Ford | 13 | +1 |
| 13 | Leavine Family Racing | Chevrolet | 12 | -1 |
| 14 | Germain Racing | Chevrolet | 14 | 0 |
| 15 | Go Fas Racing | Ford | 15 | 0 |
| 16 | BK Racing | Toyota | 16 | 0 |
Biggest Movers
Up: Stewart-Haas Racing (+2)
Down: Team Penske, Furniture Row Racing, JTG Daugherty Racing, Leavine Family Racing (-1)
Non-formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings
| Rank | Team | Manufacturer | Last Rank | Trend |
| 1 | Joe Gibbs Racing | Toyota | 3 | +2 |
| 2 | Team Penske | Ford | 1 | -1 |
| 3 | Stewart-Haas Racing | Ford | 2 | -1 |
| 4 | Furniture Row Racing | Toyota | 4 | 0 |
| 5 | Chip Ganassi Racing | Chevrolet | 5 | 0 |
| 6 | Hendrick Motorsports | Chevrolet | 6 | 0 |
| 7 | Richard Childress Racing | Chevrolet | 8 | +1 |
| 8 | Wood Brothers Racing | Ford | 7 | -1 |
| 9 | Roush Fenway Racing | Ford | 11 | +2 |
| 10 | Richard Petty Motorsports | Chevrolet | 9 | -1 |
| 11 | JTG Daugherty Racing | Chevrolet | 10 | -1 |
| 12 | Front Row Motorsports | Ford | 12 | 0 |
| 13 | Go Fas Racing | Ford | 15 | +2 |
| 14 | Germain Racing | Chevrolet | 14 | 0 |
| 15 | Leavine Family Racing | Chevrolet | 13 | -2 |
| 16 | BK Racing | Toyota | 16 | 0 |
Biggest Movers
Up: Joe Gibbs Racing, Roush Fenway Racing, Go Fas Racing (+2)
Down: Leavine Family Racing (-1)
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Be sure that you do not miss the Toyota Owners 400, which is the next NASCAR Cup Series race and the ninth of 36 scheduled races this season. It is set to be held at 6:30 pm ET this Saturday, April 21st, and it is set to be broadcast live from Richmond Raceway in Richmond, Virginia at that time on Fox.