NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings after 2019 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500

Following the second race of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season, the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, at Atlanta Motor Speedway, how do the sport’s 32 full-time drivers stack up against one another?

Team Penske’s Brad Keselowski joined Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin on the short list of NASCAR Cup Series race winners so far in the 2019 season by winning the season’s second race, the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Hamlin, meanwhile, opened up the season by winning the 61st annual Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway in his #11 Toyota.

Keselowski led only 33 laps of the 325-lap race around the four-turn, 1.54-mile (2.478-kilometer) high-banked Atlanta Motor Speedway oval in Hampton, Georgia, but he led lap 325 and held off a hard-charging #19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driven by Martin Truex Jr. to do so.

Keselowski earned this victory despite the fact that he battled through a stomach illness throughout the entire race weekend that caused his status for the race to be questionable. In fact, Team Penske Xfinity Series driver Austin Cindric was on standby as his potential replacement behind the wheel of the #2 Ford on the day of the race, but he ended up not being needed.

How did the action from Atlanta Motor Speedway affect the NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings? Here are the non-formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings following the second race of the season.

Non-formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings

Rank – Driver – Car, Team, Manufacturer – [Last Rank (Trend)]
1st – Brad Keselowski – #2, Team Penske, Ford – [8th (+7)]
2nd – Kyle Busch – #18, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota – [2nd (0)]
3rd – Erik Jones – #20, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota – [3rd (0)]
4th – Denny Hamlin – #11, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota – [1st (-3)]
5th – Kyle Larson – #42, Chip Ganassi Racing, Chevrolet – [5th (0)]
6th – Martin Truex Jr. – #19, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota – [11th (+5)]
7th – Kurt Busch – #1, Chip Ganassi Racing, Chevrolet – [16th (+9)]
8th – Kevin Harvick – #4, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – [10th (+2)]
9th – Clint Bowyer – #14, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – [12th (+3)]
10th – Joey Logano – #22, Team Penske, Ford – [4th (-6)]
11th – Aric Almirola – #10, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – [14th (+3)]
12th – Alex Bowman – #88, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – [7th (-5)]
13th – Daniel Suarez – #41, Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – [20th (+7)]
14th – William Byron – #24, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – [13th (-1)]
15th – Chase Elliott – #9, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – [9th (-6)]
16th – Jimmie Johnson – #48, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – [6th (-10)]
17th – Ryan Newman – #6, Roush Fenway Racing, Ford – [18th (+1)]
18th – Ricky Stenhouse Jr. – #17, Roush Fenway Racing, Ford – [17th (-1)]
19th – Austin Dillon – #3, Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet – [19th (0)]
20th – Ryan Blaney – #12, Team Penske, Ford – [15th (-5)]
21st – Chris Buescher – #37, JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet – [28th (+7)]
22nd – Ty Dillon – #13, Germain Racing, Chevrolet – [22nd (0)]
23rd – Paul Menard – #21, Wood Brothers Racing, Ford – [25th (+2)]
24th – David Ragan – #38, Front Row Motorsports, Ford – [26th (+2)]
25th – Daniel Hemric – #8, Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet – [27th (+2)]
26th – Matt DiBenedetto – #95, Leavine Family Racing, Toyota – [24th (-2)]
27th – Michael McDowell – #34, Front Row Motorsports, Ford – [21st (-6)]
28th – Ryan Preece – #47, JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet – [23rd (-5)]
29th – Corey LaJoie – #32, Go Fas Racing, Ford – [29th (0)]
30th – Darrell Wallace Jr. – #43, Richard Petty Motorsports, Chevrolet – [31st (+1)]
31st – Matt Tifft – #36, Front Row Motorsports, Ford – [32nd (+1)]
32nd – Landon Cassill – #00, StarCom Racing, Chevrolet – [30th (-2)]

Biggest Movers
Up: Kurt Busch (+9)
Down: Jimmie Johnson (-10)

Here are the formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings following Keselowski’s victory and the rest of the action from the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500. To see how the formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings are calculated, click here.