NASCAR Cup Series: Driver Power Rankings after 2018 Pocono 400
By Asher Fair
How do the 31 full-time NASCAR Cup Series drivers stack up against one another following the Pocono 400, the 14th race of the 2018 season?
Furniture Row Racing’s Martin Truex Jr. was one of only six drivers who had won at least one of the 13 races that had been contested in the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series season prior to the Pocono 400 on Sunday.
However, the defending Cup Series champion had only won one race so far in 2018, as he won the race at Auto Club Speedway back in the middle of March in his #78 Toyota.
Truex Jr. doubled his win total in the 2018 season by winning the Pocono 400 at the three-turn, 2.5-mile Pocono Raceway triangle in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. In doing so, he became just the third driver who has won more than one race so far this season.
The other two drivers who have won more than one race so far this season are Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick, who has won five races in 2018 in his #4 Ford, and Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch, who has won four races in 2018 in his #18 Toyota.
Both of those drivers had a great chance to win at Pocono but could not do it, although they did manage to finish in fourth and third place, respectively.
How did Martin Truex Jr.’s second victory of the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series season and the rest of the action in the Pocono 400 affect the NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings? Here are the formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings and the non-formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings following the 14th race of the season.
To see how the formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings are calculated, click here.