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NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings after 2019 Auto Club 400

By Asher Fair

FONTANA, CA - MARCH 17: Austin Dillon, driver of the #3 Dow Coatings Chevrolet, and Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Jimmy John's Ford, take the green flag to start the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway on March 17, 2019 in Fontana, California. (Photo by Robert Laberge/Getty Images)
FONTANA, CA - MARCH 17: Austin Dillon, driver of the #3 Dow Coatings Chevrolet, and Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Jimmy John's Ford, take the green flag to start the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway on March 17, 2019 in Fontana, California. (Photo by Robert Laberge/Getty Images) /
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With five races down and 31 remaining on the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series schedule, how are the Team Power Rankings shaping up?

Joe Gibbs Racing and Team Penske entered this past weekend as the only two teams to have any of their drivers win at least one race in the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season. They entered the weekend with two drivers having won exactly won race through the season’s first four races.

This was the case ever since the season’s second race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, which was won by Team Penske’s Brad Keselowski just over three weeks ago. Keselowski won this race after Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin won the season opener, the Daytona 500, at Daytona International Speedway the week prior.

Team Penske’s Joey Logano went on to win the season’s third race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway the following week before Kyle Busch went on to win the season’s fourth race at ISM Raceway one week later.

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As far as Joe Gibbs Racing and Team Penske being the only two teams to have any of their drivers to win at least one race this season, this remained the case following the season’s fifth race, the Auto Club 400, at Auto Club Speedway.

Busch earned his second victory of the season and his second consecutive victory by winning this 200-lap race around the four-turn, 2.0-mile (3.219-kilometer) Auto Club Speedway oval in Fontana, California, thus delivering the team their series-high third victory of 2019 and their second consecutive victory as well.

How did Joe Gibbs Racing’s third victory of the 2019 season 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 their second consecutive victory.

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 – [3rd (+1)]
3rd – Chip Ganassi Racing, Chevrolet – [2nd (-1)]
4th – Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – [4th (0)]
5th – Roush Fenway Racing, Ford – [5th (0)]
6th – Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – [6th (0)]
7th – Wood Brothers Racing, Ford – [7th (0)]
8th – Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet – [9th (+1)]
9th – Germain Racing, Chevrolet – [8th (-1)]
10th – JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet – [10th (0)]
11th – Leavine Family Racing, Toyota – [11th (0)]
12th – Front Row Motorsports, Ford – [13th (+1)]
13th – Go Fas Racing, Ford – [12th (-1)]
14th – Richard Petty Motorsports, Chevrolet – [14th (0)]
15th – StarCom Racing, Chevrolet – [15th (0)]

Biggest Movers
Up: Team Penske, Richard Childress Racing, Front Row Motorsports (+1)
Down: Chip Ganassi Racing, Germain Racing, Go Fas Racing (-1)

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 – [3rd (0)]
4th – Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – [4th (0)]
5th – Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – [5th (0)]
6th – Roush Fenway Racing, Ford – [6th (0)]
7th – Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet – [10th (+3)]
8th – Wood Brothers Racing, Ford – [7th (-1)]
9th – JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet – [9th (0)]
10th – Leavine Family Racing, Toyota – [13th (+3)]
11th – Germain Racing, Chevrolet – [8th (-3)]
12th – Front Row Motorsports, Ford – [14th (+2)]
13th – Richard Petty Motorsports, Chevrolet – [11th (-2)]
14th – Go Fas Racing, Ford – [12th (-2)]
15th – StarCom Racing, Chevrolet – [15th (0)]

Biggest Movers
Up: Richard Childress Racing, Leavine Family Racing (+3)
Down: Germain Racing (-3)

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Fox Sports 1 is scheduled to broadcast the next race on the 36-race 2019 NASCAR Cup Series schedule, which you can see here, beginning at 2:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, March 24. This race, the STP 500, is the sixth race of the season, and it is set to take place at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia.

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