NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings after 2019 TicketGuardian 500

With four races down and 32 races to go in the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season, how do the sport’s 32 full-time drivers stack up against one another?

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch became the fourth different driver to win a race through the first four races of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season, as he took the checkered flag in the season’s fourth race, the TicketGuardian 500, at ISM Raceway.

By winning this 312-lap race around the four-turn, 1.022-mile (1.645-kilometer) ISM Raceway oval in Avondale, Arizona, Busch joined teammate Denny Hamlin and Team Penske teammates Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano on the list of drivers who have been victorious so far this season.

Hamlin won the season opener, the Daytona 500, at Daytona International Speedway while Keselowski won the season’s second race at Atlanta Motor Speedway and Logano won the season’s third race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

By comparison, last season at this time, only two drivers had been victorious. Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Dillon won the season opener before Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick went on to win the season’s next three races.

How did Busch’s TicketGuardian 500 victory and the rest of the action at ISM Raceway affect the NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings? Here are the non-formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings following the fourth race of the season.

Non-formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings

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

Biggest Movers
Up: Ryan Blaney (+12)
Down: Brad Keselowski (-8)

Here are the formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings following Busch’s first victory of the season. To see how the formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings are calculated, click here.