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Power Rankings: Fontana
By Ryan Smithson, NASCAR.COM
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August 30, 2006
3:36 PM EDT (1536 GMT)

Ryan remains on vacation but will return next week. In the meantime, it's Back to the Future: If today's drivers were movie stars in the 1980s, which movies would they have starred in?
Biggest Gain this week: Scott Riggs, up eight spots
Biggest Drop this week: Mark Martin and Jamie McMurray, down three spots
New this week: Ken Schrader (22), Dave Blaney (25)
Dropped out: Clint Bowyer (20), J.J. Yeley (25)

Week 25 of 36, Sony HD 500 at California Speedway
Rank Prev Number Driver Comments
 1  3 Matt Kenseth Matt Kenseth Ted Striker in Airplane! -- "Concentrate ... concentrate ... I've got to concentrate ... concentrate ... concentrate ... Hello? ... hello ... hello ... Echo ... echo ... echo ... Pinch-hitting for Pedro Borbon ... Manny Mota ... Mota ... Mota ..."
 2  1 Kevin Harvick Kevin Harvick "Yes ... fish all bathe together. Though they do tend to eat one another. I often think ... fish must get awful tired of sea food." -- Arthur
 3  6 Denny Hamlin Denny Hamlin Stand By Me's Gordie Lachance: "Mickey is a mouse, Donald is a duck, Pluto is a dog. What's Goofy ...?"
 4  2 Jeff Gordon Jeff Gordon "It'd be a major downer to try and get together with this girl and find out that she really does think I'm a slime." -- Jake Ryan, Sixteen Candles
 5  4 Kyle Busch Kyle Busch Gizmo -- "Bye-bye, Woof Woof." -- in Gremlins.
 6  5 Jimmie Johnson Jimmie Johnson Top Gun's Maverick: "Jesus Christ, and you think I'm reckless? When I fly, I'll have you know that my crew and my plane come first."
 7  9 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Eddie Wilson, Eddie and The Cruisers: "I want something great. I want something that's never been done before!"
 8 11 Jeff Burton Jeff Burton "That's incredible. Imagine seven million people all wanting to live together. Yeah, New York must be the friendliest place on earth." -- Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee
 9  8 Tony Stewart Tony Stewart Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi: "You underestimate the power of the Dark Side. If you will not fight, then you will meet your destiny."
10  7 Mark Martin Mark Martin Aloha, Mr. Hand! "What are you, people? On dope?"
11 12 Carl Edwards Carl Edwards John Winger in Stripes: "C'mon, it's Czechoslovakia. We zip in, we pick 'em up, we zip right out again. We're not going to Moscow. It's Czechoslovakia. It's like we're going into Wisconsin.
12 10 Kurt Busch Kurt Busch "Wow. You know, it says here that by the time the average American is 50, he has five pounds of undigested red meat in his bowels." -- Det. William "Billy" Rosewood, Beverly Hills Cop
13 13 Ryan Newman Ryan Newman Ghostbusters' Dr. Egon Spengler: "I collect spores, molds and fungus."
14 15 Kasey Kahne Kasey Kahne "I don't know streets! Mom always drives me!" -- Elliott, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
15 23 Scott Riggs Scott Riggs Batman: "Have you ever danced with the devil by the pale moon light?"
16 17 Robby Gordon Robby Gordon Good Morning, Vietnam! Lt. Steven Hauk: "I understand you're pretty funny as a dee-jay and, well, comedy is kind of a hobby of mine. Well, actually, it's a little more than just a hobby, Reader's Digest is considering publishing two of my jokes."
17 14 Jamie McMurray Jamie McMurray Duckie from Pretty in Pink: "This is a really volcanic ensemble you're wearing, it's really marvelous!"
18 16 Elliott Sadler Elliott Sadler Dr. Emmett Brown from Back to the Future. Nice hair.
19 19 Brian Vickers Brian Vickers Weird Science's Gary Wallace: "All our lives we've been saying how great it would be if we went to parties, right? And now it's our party and we're in the john. We're in the john!"
20 18 Greg Biffle Greg Biffle Indiana Jones: "I'm allowing you to tag along. So why don't you give your mouth a rest. OK, doll?" -- Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom
21 22 Martin Truex Jr. Martin Truex Jr. "Have you ever gotten into a mistake that you just can't get out of, King?" -- Pvt. Chris Taylor, Platoon
22 NR Ken Schrader Ken Schrader Pick a geezer from Cocoon -- Arthur Selwyn, Benjamin Luckett or Joseph Finley
23 21 Reed Sorenson Reed Sorenson Mark "Rat" Ratner of Fast Times at Ridgemont High: "I mean, you put the vibe out to 30 million chicks, something is gonna happen."
24 24 Bobby Labonte Bobby Labonte "Everybody in my family is a comedian." -- Russell "Russ" Thompson Sr., Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
25 NR Dave Blaney Dave Blaney The Breakfast Club's Principal Richard Vernon: "Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns."

The Power Rankings are written by Ryan Smithson and the opinions listed here are solely those of the writer. To email Ryan about the Rankings, click here.
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