The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs started this week and some of the drivers who were expected to perform well struggled, while some new drivers made an appearance at the top of the leaderboard.
Kyle Busch was given a new pit-crew to start the playoffs and they let him down. Chase Elliott was given a brand new car and he had one of his best races of the season. Teams will continue to try anything to get to Homestead. There should be many changes in the Fantasy NASCAR Driver Power Rankings in the final nine weeks of the season.
Here are my Fantasy NASCAR Power Rankings as the series heads to New Hampshire…
- Martin Truex Jr. (Furniture Row Racing)
- Kyle Larson (Chip Ganassi Racing)
- Kyle Busch (Joe Gibbs Racing)
- Kevin Harvick (Stewart-Haas Racing)
- Chase Elliott (Hendrick Motorsports)
- Brad Keselowski (Team Penske)
- Denny Hamlin (Joe Gibbs Racing)
- Matt Kenseth (Joe Gibbs Racing)
- Kurt Busch (Stewart-Haas Racing)
- Erik Jones (Furniture Row Racing)
- Jamie McMurray (Chip Ganassi Racing)
- Jimmie Johnson (Hendrick Motorsports)
- Joey Logano (Team Penske)
- Daniel Suarez (Joe Gibbs Racing)
- Ryan Blaney (Wood Brothers Racing)
- Clint Bowyer (Stewart-Haas Racing)
- Austin Dillon (Richard Childress Racing)
- Ryan Newman (Richard Childress Racing)
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (Roush Fenway Racing)
- Kasey Kahne (Hendrick Motorsports)
- Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Hendrick Motorsports)
- Trevor Bayne (Roush Fenway Racing)
- Danica Patrick (Stewart-Haas Racing)
- Paul Menard (Richard Childress Racing)
- AJ Allmendinger (JTG Daugherty Racing)
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