Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Unofficial 2009 Driver Rankings: 2/25/2009

One of my earlier posts was about driver rankings. With 2009 racing finally beginning, I wanted to show off the so far unofficial rankings for 2009. I'm calling them unofficial since only one major series has begun, NASCAR, and there are only two races so far.

Top 20 (after Fontana)

1.
Matt Kenseth (last week - 1), 30.000 average

Unsurprisingly, Kenseth is #1 so far after winning the first two races of '09. He still has room for improvement though, since he has zero qualifying points.

2. Tony Stewart (LW - 3), 21.000

Consistency has kept Smoke up near the top. In fact, he registered the same amount of ranking points at Daytona and Fontana (only Kenseth did the same).

3. Kurt Busch (LW - 7), 20.500

A tenth place and fifth place put him at #3 so far.

4. Jeff Gordon (LW - 13), 18.500

Fontana runner-up Gordon jumps ahead thanks to his finish at Auto Club.

5. Jimmie Johnson (LW - t18), 16.750

Scoring a weak (for him) 5.5 points at Daytona, the three-time defending Cup champ scored the second most points at Fontana thanks to his front row start.

6. Kyle Busch
(LW - t14), 16.750

7. Brian Vickers
(LW - t21), 16.000

8. Martin Truex Jr.
(LW - 2), 14.250

9. Juan Pablo Montoya
(LW - t14), 14.000

10. Greg Biffle
(LW - t21), 13.000

11. A.J. Allmendinger
(LW - 4), 12.750

T-12. Clint Bowyer
(LW - t7), 12.000

T-12. Michael Waltrip
(LW - t10), 12.000

14. Carl Edwards
(LW - 17), 11.500

T-15. Kevin Harvick
(LW - 5), 11.000

T-15. David Ragan (LW - t10), 11.000

T-15. Reed Sorenson (LW - 6), 11.000

18. Denny Hamlin
(LW - t18), 10.250

19. Mark Martin
(LW - t10), 10.000

20. Elliott Sadler
(LW - 9), 9.250

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