NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings after 2019 STP 500

How do the NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings look following Brad Keselowski’s victory in the STP 500 at Martinsville Speedway?

Team Penske’s Brad Keselowski entered the sixth race of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season, the STP 500, at Martinsville Speedway as one of four drivers who had earned at least one victory through the season’s first five races.

Of these four drivers, three, including Keselowski, had earned one victory so far in the 2019 season. The only two-time winner in this group of four drivers was Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch.

Busch entered the 500-lap race around the four-turn, 0.526-mile (0.847-kilometer) Martinsville Speedway oval in Ridgeway, Virginia on a two-race win streak after winning the races at ISM Raceway and Auto Club Speedway.

Keselowski ended up dominating the STP 500 to become the second driver to earn his second victory in the 2019 season.

Aside of Keselowski and Busch, the only two drivers who have won at least one race this season are Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin and Team Penske’s Joey Logano. Hamlin won the season opener, the Daytona 500, at Daytona International Speedway while Logano won the season’s third race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

How did Keselowski’s second victory of the season affect the NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings? Here are the non-formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings following the season’s sixth race.

Non-formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings

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

Biggest Movers
Up: Clint Bowyer (+8)
Down: Jimmie Johnson, Erik Jones (-4)

Here are the formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings following the action at Martinsville Speedway. To see how the formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings are calculated, click here.