NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings after 2019 Pennzoil 400

Following the third race of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season, the Pennzoil 400, how do the sport’s 32 full-time drivers stack up against one another?

After Team Penske’s Brad Keselowski won the second race of the 36-race 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season, the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, at Atlanta Motor Speedway last Sunday, teammate Joey Logano joined him on the short list of winners so far this season by winning the season’s third race, the Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Logano’s victory in the 267-lap race around the four-turn, 1.5-mile (2.414-kilometer) high-banked Las Vegas Motor Speedway oval in Las Vegas, Nevada made him the third different driver to win a race through the season’s first three races.

This was not the case last season, as after Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Dillon won the season opener, Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick went on to win the next two (in fact, the next three) races. Meanwhile, Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin won this year’s season opener, the 61st annual Daytona 500, at Daytona International Speedway.

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

Biggest Movers
Up: Joey Logano (+8)
Down: Erik Jones, Clint Bowyer, Daniel Suarez (-5)

Here are the formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings with three races in the books and 33 races remaining on the schedule this year. To see how the formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings are calculated, click here.