Throughout the season I will be continuing my previews of each NASCAR event that occurs in the three primary series and ranking the drivers prior to the event. These rankings are based off of the last 5 years at the track (7 events), success this season thus far (or lack of success), last week’s finish, practice times, qualifying speed and team quality.
* - Rookie
Safe - A combination of those who have ran well here in the past (in this series) and/or have a solid team around them and/or were quick in practice/qualifying.
Ryan Blaney / #12
Kyle Busch / #18
Alex Bowman / #48
Martin Truex Jr. / #19
William Byron / #24
Chase Elliott / #9
Denny Hamlin / #11
Christopher Bell / #20
Joey Logano / #22
Kyle Larson / #5
Maybes - A combination but not all of what is stated above.
Kurt Busch / #45
Austin Cindric / #2 *
Daniel Suarez / #99
Ross Chastain / #1
Kevin Harvick / #4
Chris Buescher / #17
Tyler Reddick / #8
Chase Briscoe / #14
Aric Almirola / #10
Austin Dillon / #3
Michael McDowell / #34
Erik Jones / #43
Fringe - Have struggled this season, this week, or here in the past and have the potential to pull out a decent finish
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. / #47
Brad Keselowski / #6
Justin Haley / #31
Cole Custer / #41
Corey Lajoie / #7
Steer Clear - There isn’t much going for these folks, they have been slow most of the weekend and were slow in the past here.
Harrison Burton / #21 *
Ryan Preece / #15
Ty Dillon / #42
Todd Gilliland / #38 *
Noah Gragson / #16
Josh Bilicki / #77
Cody Ware / #51
BJ McLeod / #78
Kaz Grala / #50