NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings after 2018 Ford EcoBoost 400
By Asher Fair
With the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series season in the books and Joey Logano having been crowned champion, here is how the sport’s 14 full-time teams stack up against one another.
Team Penske’s Joey Logano clinched the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series championship by winning the season finale and Championship 4 race, the Ford EcoBoost 400, at Homestead-Miami Speedway. In doing so, he delivered Team Penske their seventh victory of the season.
Heading into the 267-lap race around the four-turn, 1.5-mile (2.414-kilometer) Homestead-Miami Speedway oval in Homestead, Florida, Team Penske had won five of the last 11 races after starting the season with just one victory, Logano’s victory in the April race at Talladega Superspeedway, in the season’s first 24 races.
However, the team had not won either of the two races leading up to the season finale. Those two races, one at Texas Motor Speedway and the other at ISM Raceway, were won by Stewart-Haas Racing and Joe Gibbs Racing, respectively.
More from NASCAR Cup Series
- NASCAR Cup Series: New team set to compete in 2024
- NASCAR: Surprising name continuously linked to new seat
- NASCAR driver at risk of missing the Daytona 500?
- NASCAR set for rare appearance last seen 13 years ago
- NASCAR team adds third car, names driver for 2024 Daytona 500
Stewart-Haas Racing and Joe Gibbs Racing were the only two teams to finish the season higher than Team Penske on the wins list.
Stewart-Haas Racing led the series in victories with 12, of which eight were earned by Kevin Harvick, two were earned by Clint Bowyer, one was earned by Kurt Busch and one was earned by Aric Almirola.
Joe Gibbs Racing trailed only Stewart-Haas Racing on the wins list and finished in second place with nine victories, of which eight were earned by Kyle Busch and one was earned by Erik Jones.
How did Team Penske’s championship-clinching seventh victory of the season and sixth victory in the last 12 races 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 season’s 36th and final race.
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 – [1st (0)]
2nd – Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – [2nd (0)]
3rd – Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota – [4th (+1)]
4th – Team Penske, Ford – [3rd (-1)]
5th – Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – [6th (+1)]
6th – Chip Ganassi Racing, 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 – Front Row Motorsports, Ford – [12th (+1)]
12th – Germain Racing, Chevrolet – [11th (-1)]
13th – Richard Petty Motorsports, Chevrolet – [13th (0)]
14th – Go Fas Racing, Ford – [14th (0)]
Biggest Movers
Up: Joe Gibbs Racing, Hendrick Motorsports, Front Row Motorsports (+1)
Down: Team Penske, Chip Ganassi Racing, Germain Racing (-1)
Non-formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings
Rank – Team, Manufacturer – [Last Rank (Trend)]
1st – Team Penske, Ford – [4th (+3)]
2nd – Furniture Row Racing, Toyota – [3rd (+1)]
3rd – Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – [2nd (-1)]
4th – Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota – [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 – [9th (+1)]
9th – Wood Brothers Racing, Ford – [8th (-1)]
10th – JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet – [10th (0)]
11th – Front Row Motorsports, Ford – [11th (0)]
12th – Richard Petty Motorsports, Chevrolet – [12th (0)]
13th – Germain Racing, Chevrolet – [13th (0)]
14th – Go Fas Racing, Ford – [14th (0)]
Biggest Movers
Up: Team Penske (+3)
Down: Joe Gibbs Racing (-3)
Formulated rankings predictions for after next race
As a result of the fact that the Ford EcoBoost 400 was the final race on the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series schedule, this article does not include formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings predictions for after the next race.
dark. Next. Top 10 NASCAR drivers of all-time
With the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series season in the books, the offseason between the 2018 and 2019 season is set to get underway. This offseason is scheduled to last for slightly under three months, as the Daytona 500 is scheduled to get the 2019 season underway from Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida on Sunday, February 17, 2019. Be sure to tune in to FOX for the live broadcast of this race.