NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings after 2018 Can-Am 500

Only the Championship 4 remains on the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series schedule. How do the sport’s 14 full-time teams stack up against one another heading into it?

Kyle Busch delivered Joe Gibbs Racing their ninth victory of the 36-race 2018 NASCAR Cup Series season in the season’s penultimate race and the final race of the round of 8, the Can-Am 500, at ISM Raceway.

Busch’s victory in the 312-lap race around the four-turn, 1.022-mile (1.645-kilometer) ISM Raceway oval in Avondale, Arizona solidified Joe Gibbs Racing’s position as the team with the second highest win total this season.

Entering the race, two races remained on the 2018 schedule. Joe Gibbs Racing sat in second place on the wins list with eight victories, trailing only Stewart-Haas Racing, which had locked up the top spot on this list with their 12 victories through the season’s first 34 races.

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Team Penske, meanwhile, had a chance to tie Joe Gibbs Racing’s win total in the season’s final two races, as they entered the Can-Am 500 with six victories, including five in the last 10 races. Busch’s victory, however, prevented this from taking place.

All four of the teams that sit in the top four on the wins list have one driver who is set to compete in the Championship 4. Busch is set to represent Joe Gibbs Racing while Kevin Harvick is set to represent Stewart-Haas Racing, Joey Logano is set to represent Team Penske and Martin Truex Jr. is set to represent Furniture Row Racing, which have won four races so far this season. Truex Jr. is the team’s lone driver.

How did the action from the Can-Am 500 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 Joe Gibbs Racing’s ninth victory of the season.

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)]
1st – Furniture Row Racing, Toyota – [2nd (+1)]
2nd – Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – [3rd (+1)]
3rd – Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota – [4th (+1)]
4th – Team Penske, Ford – [1st (-3)]
5th – Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – [5th (0)]
6th – Chip Ganassi Racing, Chevrolet – [6th (0)]
7th – Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet – [7th (0)]
8th – Roush Fenway Racing, Ford – [8th (0)]
9th – Wood Brothers Racing, Ford – [9th (0)]
10th – JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet – [10th (0)]
11th – Germain Racing, Chevrolet – [11th (0)]
12th – Front Row Motorsports, Ford – [12th (0)]
13th – Richard Petty Motorsports, Chevrolet – [13th (0)]
14th – Go Fas Racing, Ford – [14th (0)]

Biggest Movers
Up: Furniture Row Racing, Stewart-Haas Racing, Joe Gibbs Racing (+1)
Down: Team Penske (-3)

Because of the fact that the Can-Am 500 was the third and final race of the round of 8, the point totals of the eight round of 8 drivers, including the four who are set to advance to the Championship 4 and the four who are not set to do so, had their point totals updated even after the point totals that they earned during this race were added to their respective previous point totals.

This means that several variables that are involved in the calculation of the formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings were also updated. This changed the outcome of these rankings, so here are the updated formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings with these changes having been applied.

NOTE: The changes reflected in the “Last Rank” category are the changes from the formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings that are shown above to the updated formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings that are shown below.

Formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings

Rank – Team, Manufacturer – [Last Rank (Trend)]
1st – Furniture Row Racing, Toyota – [1st (0)]
2nd – Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – [2nd (0)]
3rd – Team Penske, Ford – [4th (+1)]
4th – Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota – [3rd (-1)]
5th – Chip Ganassi Racing, Chevrolet – [6th (+1)]
6th – Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – [5th (-1)]
7th – Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet – [7th (0)]
8th – Roush Fenway Racing, Ford – [8th (0)]
9th – Wood Brothers Racing, Ford – [9th (0)]
10th – JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet – [10th (0)]
11th – Germain Racing, Chevrolet – [11th (0)]
12th – Front Row Motorsports, Ford – [12th (0)]
13th – Richard Petty Motorsports, Chevrolet – [13th (0)]
14th – Go Fas Racing, Ford – [14th (0)]

Biggest Movers
Up: Team Penske, Chip Ganassi Racing (+1)
Down: Joe Gibbs Racing, Hendrick Motorsports (-1)

Non-formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings

Rank – Team, Manufacturer – [Last Rank (Trend)]
1st – Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota – [4th (+3)]
2nd – Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – [1st (-1)]
3rd – Furniture Row Racing, Toyota – [3rd (0)]
4th – Team Penske, Ford – [2nd (-2)]
5th – Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – [5th (0)]
6th – Chip Ganassi Racing, Chevrolet – [6th (0)]
7th – Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet – [7th (0)]
8th – Wood Brothers Racing, Ford – [9th (+1)]
9th – Roush Fenway Racing, Ford – [8th (-1)]
10th – JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet – [10th (0)]
11th – Front Row Motorsports, Ford – [11th (0)]
12th – Richard Petty Motorsports, Chevrolet – [13th (+1)]
13th – Germain Racing, Chevrolet – [12th (-1)]
14th – Go Fas Racing, Ford – [14th (0)]

Biggest Movers
Up: Joe Gibbs Racing (+3)
Down: Team Penske (-2)

Formulated rankings predictions for after next race

The calculation used to calculate the formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings predicts that after this Sunday’s race, the Ford EcoBoost 400, at Homestead-Miami Speedway, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, here is how the formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings will look.

Rank – Team (Trend)
1st – Furniture Row Racing (-)
2nd – Joe Gibbs Racing (+2)
3rd – Stewart-Haas Racing (-1)
4th – Team Penske (-1)
5th – Hendrick Motorsports (+1)
6th – Chip Ganassi Racing (-1)
7th – Richard Childress Racing (-)
8th – JTG Daugherty Racing (+2)
9th – Roush Fenway Racing (-1)
10th – Wood Brothers Racing (-1)
11th – Germain Racing (-)
12th – Front Row Motorsports (-)
13th – Richard Petty Motorsports (-)
14th – Go Fas Racing (-)

Biggest Movers
Up: Joe Gibbs Racing, JTG Daugherty Racing (+2)
Down: Stewart-Haas Racing, Team Penske, Chip Ganassi Racing, Roush Fenway Racing, Wood Brothers Racing (-1)

The Ford EcoBoost 400, which is the lone race in the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series Championship 4, is scheduled to take place on Sunday, November 18 beginning at 2:30 p.m. ET. It is set to be broadcast live from Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida, so be sure to tune in at that time.