NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings after 2019 O’Reilly Auto Parts 500
By Asher Fair
How did the action at Texas Motor Speedway in the O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 affect the NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings?
After the second race of the 36-race 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season at Atlanta Motor Speedway, the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, two different teams had each won one race in 2019.
Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin won the season opener, the Daytona 500, at Daytona International Speedway with before Team Penske’s Brad Keselowski won the season’s second race.
More than two months later, after the seventh race of the season, the O’Reilly Auto Parts 500, at Texas Motor Speedway, these two teams are still the only two teams that have won at least one race so far in 2019.
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Hamlin won this 334-lap race around the four-turn, 1.5-mile (2.414-kilometer) high-banked Texas Motor Speedway oval in Fort Worth, Texas to increase Joe Gibbs Racing’s win total to four, as Kyle Busch has also won two races so far this season for the team.
Team Penske’s win total, meanwhile, is three, as Keselowski has earned two victories so far this season while Logano has earned one.
How did Joe Gibbs Racing’s series-leading fourth victory of the 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 the season’s seventh race.
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 – Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – [3rd (+1)]
3rd – Team Penske, Ford – [2nd (-1)]
4th – Chip Ganassi Racing, Chevrolet – [4th (0)]
5th – Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – [5th (0)]
6th – Roush Fenway Racing, Ford – [6th (0)]
7th – Wood Brothers Racing, Ford – [7th (0)]
8th – Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet – [8th (0)]
9th – Germain Racing, Chevrolet – [9th (0)]
10th – JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet – [10th (0)]
11th – Leavine Family Racing, Toyota – [11th (0)]
12th – Richard Petty Motorsports, Chevrolet – [12th (0)]
13th – Front Row Motorsports, Ford – [13th (0)]
14th – Go Fas Racing, Ford – [14th (0)]
15th – StarCom Racing, Chevrolet – [15th (0)]
Biggest Movers
Up: Stewart-Haas Racing (+1)
Down: Team Penske (-1)
Non-formulated NASCAR Cup Series Team Power Rankings
Rank – Team, Manufacturer – [Last Rank (Trend)]
1st – Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota – [2nd (+1)]
2nd – Stewart-Haas Racing, Ford – [3rd (+1)]
3rd – Team Penske, Ford – [1st (-2)]
4th – Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet – [5th (+1)]
5th – Chip Ganassi Racing, Chevrolet – [4th (-1)]
6th – Roush Fenway Racing, Ford – [8th (+2)]
7th – Wood Brothers Racing, Ford – [7th (0)]
8th – Richard Childress Racing, Chevrolet – [9th (+1)]
9th – Germain Racing, Chevrolet – [6th (-3)]
10th – JTG Daugherty Racing, Chevrolet – [10th (0)]
11th – Leavine Family Racing, Toyota – [11th (0)]
12th – Front Row Motorsports, Ford – [13th (+1)]
13th – Richard Petty Motorsports, Chevrolet – [12th (-1)]
14th – Go Fas Racing, Ford – [14th (0)]
15th – StarCom Racing, Chevrolet – [15th (0)]
Biggest Movers
Up: Roush Fenway Racing (+2)
Down: Germain Racing (-3)
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