NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings after 2019 Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500
By Asher Fair
With two of the 36 races on the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series schedule in the books, how do the sport’s 15 full-time teams rank against one another?
Team Penske became the second team to have one of their drivers get to victory lane in the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season, as Brad Keselowski won the season’s second race, the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, at Atlanta Motor Speedway after Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin won the season opener, the 61st annual Daytona 500, at Daytona International Speedway.
Keselowski held off Joe Gibbs Racing’s Martin Truex Jr., who was charging hard in his #19 Toyota in the closing 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, to win the race in his #2 Ford.
With Truex Jr.’s second place finish, all four of Joe Gibbs Racing’s drivers have now finished one race in the top three so far this season even though only two races have been completed.
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In addition to Hamlin winning the Daytona 500 in his #11 Toyota last Sunday, Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Kyle Busch and Erik Jones finished the race in second and third place in their #18 Toyota and #20 Toyota, respectively.
Busch and Jones finished in sixth and seventh place in the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, respectively, while Hamlin finished back in 11th.
How did the action from the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 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 Team Penske’s first 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 – Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota – [1st (0)]
2nd – Team Penske, Ford – [2nd (0)]
3rd – Chip Ganassi Racing, Chevrolet – [5th (+2)]
4th – Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – [11th (+7)]
5th – Roush Fenway Racing, Ford – [8th (+3)]
6th – Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – [7th (+1)]
7th – Germain Racing, Chevrolet – [3rd (-4)]
8th – Wood Brothers Racing, Ford – [14th (+6)]
9th – Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet – [10th (+1)]
10th – JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet – [6th (-4)]
11th – Front Row Motorsports, Ford – [4th (-7)]
12th – Go Fas Racing, Ford – [9th (-3)]
13th – Leavine Family Racing, Toyota – [12th (-1)]
14th – Richard Petty Motorsports, Chevrolet – [15th (+1)]
15th – StarCom Racing, Chevrolet – [13th (-2)]
Biggest Movers
Up: Stewart-Haas Racing (+7)
Down: Front Row Motorsports (-7)
Non-formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings
Rank – Team, Manufacturer – [Last Rank (Trend)]
1st – Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota – [1st (0)]
2nd – Team Penske, Ford – [2nd (0)]
3rd – Chip Ganassi Racing, Chevrolet – [4th (+1)]
4th – Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – [8th (+4)]
5th – Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – [3rd (-2)]
6th – Roush Fenway Racing, Ford – [6th (0)]
7th – JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet – [9th (+2)]
8th – Germain Racing, Chevrolet – [5th (-3)]
9th – Wood Brothers Racing, Ford – [11th (+2)]
10th – Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet – [12th (+2)]
11th – Leavine Family Racing, Toyota – [10th (-1)]
12th – Front Row Motorsports, Ford – [7th (-5)]
13th – Go Fas Racing, Ford – [13th (0)]
14th – Richard Petty Motorsports, Chevrolet – [15th (+1)]
15th – StarCom Racing, Chevrolet – [14th (-1)]
Biggest Movers
Up: Stewart-Haas Racing (+4)
Down: Front Row Motorsports (-5)
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The Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube is the next race on the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series schedule. This race is scheduled to take place on Sunday, March 3, and it is set to be broadcast live on Fox from Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada beginning at 3:30 p.m. ET, so be sure to tune in to it.