Power Rankings
This is not the championship table
Raw points mostly measure the team’s equipment — a well-funded shop’s cars tend to qualify well and score well together. This ranking divides each driver’s points-per-race by how well their organization typically qualifies, then blends in the margin over a driver from the same team in qualifying.
One honesty note: NASCAR teammates don’t share a literally identical car the way F1 or MotoGP teammates do. Cup Series engines come from four separate suppliers even within the same organization, and setup still varies car to car under the spec Next Gen chassis. So this shows organizational strength more than a pure isolation of driver skill from machinery — read it as “same shop, not same car.”
Standings data isn’t available yet — check back once the season is underway.
Where these numbers come from
Points per race, divided by a team-pace factor from the Team Performance ranking — so the same rate of scoring counts for more from an organization that doesn’t qualify at the front. Blended with the qualifying gap to a driver from the same team, the closest comparison the sport offers.
Score is 65% team-adjusted points, 35% same-team qualifying margin. It exists to order the field, not to be read as a measurement — the number itself carries no meaning beyond rank.