Four regular season races remain on the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series schedule. How do the sport’s 15 teams with at least one full-time driver stack up against one another?
Hendrick Motorsports became the sixth team to earn a victory in the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series season thanks to Chase Elliott’s first victory of the season and his first career Cup Series victory in the 22nd race of the 36-race season, the Go Bowling at The Glen, at Watkins Glen International.
Elliott’s victory in the 90-lap race around the eight-turn, 2.454-mile (3.949-kilometer) Watkins Glen International road course in Watkins Glen, New York did not come easily, but he got the job done nevertheless. As a result, Hendrick Motorsports are now tied for fourth on the 2018 season wins list with Team Penske and Richard Childress Racing at one victory apiece.
It will be hard for any team to catch Stewart-Haas Racing, Joe Gibbs Racing or Furniture Row Racing in the wins category seeing as how just three races have been won by teams other than these three teams and these three teams have racked up eight, seven and four victories, respectively, so far this season.
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Hendrick Motorsports’ first victory of the 2018 season, which is their first victory in more than one full year, as their last victory had been Kasey Kahne’s victory in the 2017 Brickyard 400 last July, was just the second victory of the season by a Chevrolet team.
The only other Chevrolet team that have won a race so far this season are Richard Childress Racing, and their lone victory came in the season opener, the Daytona 500. Since the Daytona 500, which took place over five months ago in mid-February, no Chevrolet team had won a race since Elliott delivered his first career victory for Hendrick Motorsports at Watkins Glen International.
Of the 20 races that took place between this year’s Daytona 500 and this year’s Go Bowling at The Glen, 11 were won by Toyota drivers and nine were won by Ford drivers.
How did Hendrick Motorsports’ first victory in over one year affect the NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings? Here are the formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings and the non-formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings following the action from Watkins Glen International.
To see how the formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings are calculated, click here.
Formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings
| Rank | Team | Manufacturer | Last Rank | Trend |
| 1 | Furniture Row Racing | Toyota | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Joe Gibbs Racing | Toyota | 3 | +1 |
| 3 | Stewart-Haas Racing | Ford | 2 | -1 |
| 4 | Team Penske | Ford | 4 | 0 |
| 5 | Hendrick Motorsports | Chevrolet | 6 | +1 |
| 6 | Chip Ganassi Racing | Chevrolet | 5 | -1 |
| 7 | Richard Childress Racing | Chevrolet | 7 | 0 |
| 8 | Roush Fenway Racing | Ford | 9 | +1 |
| 9 | Wood Brothers Racing | Ford | 8 | -1 |
| 10 | JTG Daugherty Racing | Chevrolet | 10 | 0 |
| 11 | Front Row Motorsports | Ford | 13 | +2 |
| 12 | Leavine Family Racing | Chevrolet | 11 | -1 |
| 13 | Richard Petty Motorsports | Chevrolet | 12 | -1 |
| 14 | Germain Racing | Chevrolet | 14 | 0 |
| 15 | Go Fas Racing | Ford | 15 | 0 |
Biggest Movers
Up: Front Row Motorsports (+2)
Down: Stewart-Haas Racing, Chip Ganassi Racing, Wood Brothers Racing, Leavine Family Racing, Richard Petty Motorsports (-1)
Non-formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings
| Rank | Team | Manufacturer | Last Rank | Trend |
| 1 | Joe Gibbs Racing | Toyota | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Furniture Row Racing | Toyota | 3 | +1 |
| 3 | Stewart-Haas Racing | Ford | 2 | -1 |
| 4 | Hendrick Motorsports | Chevrolet | 5 | +1 |
| 5 | Chip Ganassi Racing | Chevrolet | 6 | +1 |
| 6 | Team Penske | Ford | 4 | -2 |
| 7 | Roush Fenway Racing | Ford | 9 | +2 |
| 8 | Richard Childress Racing | Chevrolet | 7 | -1 |
| 9 | Wood Brothers Racing | Ford | 8 | -1 |
| 10 | JTG Daugherty Racing | Chevrolet | 10 | 0 |
| 11 | Front Row Motorsports | Ford | 11 | 0 |
| 12 | Richard Petty Motorsports | Chevrolet | 12 | 0 |
| 13 | Leavine Family Racing | Chevrolet | 13 | 0 |
| 14 | Germain Racing | Chevrolet | 14 | 0 |
| 15 | Go Fas Racing | Ford | 15 | 0 |
Biggest Movers
Up: Roush Fenway Racing (+2)
Down: Team Penske (-2)
The Consumers Energy 400 is the next race on the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series schedule. That race is scheduled to be broadcast live on NBC Sports Network starting at 2:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, August 12 from Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan.