The Cup Series will complete the short track portion of their schedule when they make the short trip to Martinsville Speedway. This track is unlike any track on the schedule. It is a .5-mile, flat track which requires aggressive driving to make it through the field. I like it better as a Saturday night race, but I cannot argue with the excite we are about to see this week. The NOCO 400 can be seen Sunday at 3 pm ET on FS1.
Here are my early week driver rankings for the NOCO 400 …
| Driver |
| 1. William Byron |
| 2. Denny Hamlin |
| 3. Christopher Bell |
| 4. Kyle Larson |
| 5. Ryan Blaney |
| 6. Joey Logano |
| 7. Alex Bowman |
| 8. Martin Truex Jr. |
| 9. Ross Chastain |
| 10. Brad Keselowski |
| 11. Kyle Busch |
| 12. Kevin Harvick |
| 13. Chase Briscoe |
| 14. Aric Almirola |
| 15. Bubba Wallace |
| 16. Austin Dillon |
| 17. Tyler Reddick |
| 18. Josh Berry |
| 19. Ryan Preece |
| 20. Ty Gibbs |
| 21. Daniel Suarez |
| 22. Erik Jones |
| 23. Chris Buescher |
| 24. AJ Allmendinger |
| 25. Michael McDowell |
| 26. Austin Cindric |
| 27. Harrison Burton |
| 28. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. |
| 29. Justin Haley |
| 30. Corey LaJoie |
| 31. Noah Gragson |
| 32. Todd Gilliland |
| 33. Ty Dillon |
| 34. Rick Ware Racing Car (Driver TBD) |
| 35. J.J. Yeley |
| 36. Anthony Alfredo |
The updated rankings will be posted Saturday after qualifying.
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