With four races remaining in the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series regular season, how do the sport’s 30 full-time drivers stack up against one another?
Hendrick Motorsports’ Chase Elliott earned his first victory of the 36-race 2018 NASCAR Cup Series season in the season’s 22nd race, the Go Bowling at The Glen, at Watkins Glen International.
The win is also the first of the 22-year-old’s Cup Series career, and by earning this victory, he became the youngest driver in Cup Series history to win a road course race.
Elliott won the 90-lap race around the eight-turn, 2.454-mile (3.949-kilometer) Watkins Glen International road course in Watkins Glen, New York in his #9 Chevrolet in dramatic fashion after an intense battle with Furniture Row Racing’s Martin Truex Jr. in his #78 Toyota over the course of the last several laps of the race.
Prior to Elliott’s victory, no Chevrolet driver had won a race since Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Dillon won the 2018 season opener, the Daytona 500, back in mid-February in his #3 Chevrolet.
In the 20 races that took place between this year’s Daytona 500 and this year’s Go Bowling at The Glen, Toyota drivers earned 11 victories and Ford drivers earned nine victories, as Chevrolet drivers were left out of each and every victory celebration in March, April, May, June and July.
How did Elliott’s first career Cup Series victory and the rest of the action from the twists and turns of Watkins Glen International 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 22nd race of the 2018 season.
To see how the formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings are calculated, click here.