July 15, 2008
New this Week
Kevin Harvick, Greg Biffle Dropped Out
Denny Hamlin, Kurt Busch |
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Gain of the Week |
Kevin Harvick
Re-enters at No. 10 |
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Drop of the Week |
Kurt Busch
Dropped out from No. 11 |
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| 1: | Kyle Busch | This just in: Kyle Busch has won the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard in two weeks. | | 2: | Matt Kenseth | Busch may have five wins since May 10, but in that time he's only scored seven more points than Kenseth. | | 3: | Dale Earnhardt Jr. | The consistency he showed early in the season is starting to slip just a little. Should Junior fans be worried? A little. | | 4: | Jimmie Johnson | Huge, huge race at Chicagoland for Johnson and Co., proving they've got their package together for the 1.5-mile tracks. | | 5: | Carl Edwards | Cousin Carl continues his roller coaster ride, though you gotta believe that if his splitter hadn't busted he would have wound up in victory lane at Chicagoland. | | 6: | Tony Stewart | Now it's time to wonder when Smoke will win. Only once has he gone winless this long into a season, and that was his rookie year. | | 7: | Jeff Burton | We're holding him here for what he did early on, but he's fading fast. Hasn't cracked the top 10 in the last five races. | | 8: | Brian Vickers | A lot of you will complain about this one, but check the numbers folks. Vickers deserves this spot. | | 9: | Jeff Gordon | With Indy, Pocono and Watkins Glen on deck, it's hard to believe Gordon will remain winless past Aug. 10. | | 10: | Kevin Harvick | The good news is Harvick is showing signs of life. The bad news is you don't know if those signs will be evident from week to week. | | 11: | Kasey Kahne | Since his two wins, Kasey has been up and down and up and down. | | 12: | Greg Biffle | The revolving 12th spot goes to … Biffle. He's been both really good and really bad at times this season, which is why he's in and out of Power Rankings. | | Lucky Dog: | AJ Allmendinger | So we're partial to AJ because he's a Y! Sports contributor. Still, a 14th-place finish at a track he's never raced on before is impressive. | | DNF: | Sam Hornish Jr. | This could go to any of the rookies, but the Indy 500 champ is having a terrible time as of late just cracking the top 20, which he's done only three times this season. |
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