The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series has completed 18 of the 36 races. It is hard to believe the season is half over. The Daytona 500 seemed like it was not too long ago.
The series is starting to through a transition. The Fords had a lot of speed to start the season but it looks like the Toyotas have caught up to them and even passed them with the speed in their cars. This has a lot to do with NASCAR enforcing the rules more tightly. The Fords were alleged to have been shaping the front splitter to manipulate the air under the car. Now that each car must have a perfectly straight splitter, the Toyotas have picked up a lot of speed. The one thing that main consistent is that Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Larson have the best cars each week.
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)
- Jamie McMurray (Chip Ganassi Racing)
- Jimmie Johnson (Hendrick Motorsports)
- Brad Keselowski (Team Penske)
- Ryan Blaney (Wood Brothers Racing)
- Clint Bowyer (Stewart-Haas Racing)
- Denny Hamlin (Joe Gibbs Racing)
- Chase Elliott (Hendrick Motorsports)
- Erik Jones (Furniture Row Racing)
- Matt Kenseth (Joe Gibbs Racing)
- Joey Logano (Team Penske)
- Daniel Suarez (Joe Gibbs Racing)
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (Roush Fenway Racing)
- Kurt Busch (Stewart-Haas Racing)
- Ryan Newman (Richard Childress Racing)
- Austin Dillon (Richard Childress Racing)
- Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Hendrick Motorsports)
- Kasey Kahne (Hendrick Motorsports)
- Trevor Bayne (Roush Fenway Racing)
- The No. 43 Car (Bubba Wallace Jr. or Aric Almirola)
- Ty Dillon (Germaine Racing)
- Chris Buescher (JTG Daugherty Racing)
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