

Each week I post my Driver Rankings for the race. This is not necessarily my prediction of how each driver will finish the race, but my rankings as if we were going to have a fantasy draft to select drivers after all of the practices and qualifying are completed.
NASCAR screwed up Fantasy NASCAR last week by inspecting the cars after qualifying and sending 13 cars to the back of the field. They plan to do it again this week but this time they will inspect the cars Sunday morning, instead of Saturday night. The inspection process took 4 hours last week. The cars should make at least one pass through inspection by about 10:30 AM ET. I should be able to put together the starting lineup once each car goes through inspection once.
I am not going to change my Driver Rankings based on drivers failing inspection. Last week we saw Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick quickly make their way to the front. If the good drivers start in the back this week, they should make it to the front by the end of the race.
Here are my rankings for Watkins Glen
Driver |
1. Kyle Busch |
2. Martin Truex Jr. |
3. Denny Hamlin |
4. Chase Elliott |
5. Erik Jones |
6. Joey Logano |
7. Kevin Harvick |
8. Brad Keselowski |
9. A.J. Allmendinger |
10. Kurt Busch |
11. Clint Bowyer |
12. Daniel Suarez |
13. Jimmie Johnson |
14. Kyle Larson |
15. Jamie McMurray |
16. Aric Almriola |
17. Michael McDowell |
18. Ryan Blaney |
19. Kasey Kahne |
20. Ryan Newman |
21. Paul Menard |
22. Matt Kenseth |
23. Chris Buescher |
24. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. |
25. Alex Bowman |
26. William Byron |
27. Austin Dillon |
28. David Ragan |
29. Matt Dibendetto |
30. Ty Dillon |
31. Parker Klingerman |
32. Cole Whitt |
33. Darrell Wallace Jr. |
34. Ross Chastain |
35. Josh Bilicki |
36. Spencer Gallagher |
37. Landon Cassill |
Good luck this week!
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