Suite16 NASCAR Rankings-Talladega

Suite 16 NASCAR Nextel Cup rankings after the UAW-Ford 500 at Talladega

© Jeremy Dunn

Sep 8, 2006

Each week, Suite 101 ranks the top 16 NASCAR Nextel Cup drivers based on results and performance.

  1. (1) 31-Jeff Burton: A cut tire may have prevented Jeff Burton from running away with the NASCAR Nextel Cup championship.
  2. (2) 17-Matt Kenseth: Kenseth gains surmountable ground on Jeff Burton in the NASCAR Nextel Cup championship standings.
  3. (4) 29-Kevin Harvick: Harvick will take on a new look with Shell/Pennzoil as the sponsor. Maybe GM Goodwrench will make an occasional appearance on the hood of the 29 Chevrolet.
  4. (3) 11-Denny Hamlin: Where there was a wreck, there was Denny Hamlin, and he still finished on the lead lap.
  5. (7) 6-Mark Martin: ‘Zero One’- That’s my number! And Regan Smith’s!
  6. (5) 24-Jeff Gordon: To finish 39th and 36th in consecutive weeks, and only be 147 points out of Nextel Cup lead isn’t that bad.
  7. (8) 8-Dale Earnhardt Jr: Earnhardt Jr was more perturbed with Jeff Gordon than Brian Vickers.
  8. (6) 48-Jimmie Johnson: In the previous two races, Jimmie Johnson has been running in the top 2 within the final laps, but his finishes are 14th and 24th.
  9. (9) 5-Kyle Busch: Kyle Busch is the only Hendrick Motorsports employee that Brian Vickers has not ticked off.
  10. (11) 9-Kasey Kahne: That was by far Kasey Kahne’s best restrictor plate performance.
  11. (10) 20-Tony Stewart: Stewart pushed his teammate Denny Hamlin to a 21st place finish.
  12. (12) 99-Carl Edwards: Even though FOX no longer televises the races in 2006, that whole ‘cousin Carl’ deal is nerve grating.
  13. (15) 2-Kurt Busch: Kurt Busch was relieved that all of those boos were not directed at him.
  14. (13) 16-Greg Biffle: Greg Biffle cannot buy a break.
  15. (NR) 25-Brian Vickers: Judging by the boos after Vickers won the race at Talladega- if you were blind, you would have swore that Kurt Busch won the race.
  16. (NR) 1-Martin Truex Jr: After all of the chaos at Talladega, his fifth place finish went unnoticed.

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