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Power Rankings: Dover
By Ryan Smithson, NASCAR.COM
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September 21, 2006
3:28 PM EDT (1528 GMT)

So I am on my flight back home from Loudon on Monday, and as we are waiting to take off, one of the flight attendants starts throwing up. The other attendant asks, "Is anyone a doctor on here?" The guy behind me goes, "No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night."

Biggest Gain this week: Brian Vickers, unranked to 14th

Biggest Drop this week: Greg Biffle, down eight spots

New this week: Brian Vickers (14), Bobby Labonte (25).

Dropped out: Robby Gordon (23), Jamie McMurray (25).

Week 28 of 36, Dover 400 at Dover International Speedway
Rank Prev Number Driver Comments
 1  1 Kevin Harvick Kevin Harvick Report: Bob Dillner fully expecting to be hit in face with pie by Harvick
 2  4 Denny Hamlin Denny Hamlin He is taking everything meant for Tony Stewart. The Chase spot, the TV time, the pies.
 3  7 Mark Martin Mark Martin Are you like me? You saw the headline "Shepherd to drive in truck race at Vegas for Roush" and thought, "Dang, Morgan gets his car in the show for two consecutive Cup events, and Roush hires him?!"
 4  3 Matt Kenseth Matt Kenseth He said last week that the Guinness Book of World Records "has so many records in there that if I really wanted to get in there I could find something to do." You've already got one, dude. Most open-eyed kisses in Victory Lane in one year.
 5  8 Jeff Gordon Jeff Gordon Coming up next ... on World's Wildest Police Videos ... this four-time champion thinks Brian Vickers will simply step aside. What happens next is almost unbelievable. This young punk uses his two-ton weapon to block his rival. Loudon officials are forced to lay down the spike strips.
 6 10 Jeff Burton Jeff Burton He was pretty mad about SPEED's post-race report, which suggested that RCR used bleeder valves to enhance performance. He was first contacted about the issue by his brother Ward, who called in a frantic voice, saying, "Buh-ob Dill-nuh isa sayin' y'all messed with sum bleedah valuhvuhs."
 7  2 Kyle Busch Kyle Busch The 7 Days curse lives. His spotter was on the show and Busch promptly crashed on Lap 3. Kyle was also cursed by the SI cover.
 8 12 Tony Stewart Tony Stewart He has a new show next season. It is going to be called NASCAR Drivers: 360 pounds.
 9  6 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Dale Earnhardt Jr. After Loudon, he said, "I'm really, really frustrated. We have to do better than that as a team if we want to win this championship." No word on whether this was his Nextel Cup team or his online racing team.
10  5 Kasey Kahne Kasey Kahne I am surprised more outrage hasn't risen from his picture on his driver page (click his name to the left to see). If those Allstate girls had seen that, they would have married Reed Sorenson.
11 11 Elliott Sadler Elliott Sadler The team had bins of Glaceau Vitamin Water around his hauler, and Sadler promptly replaced them with bins of Coke, mainly because he can't pronounce the name.
12 19 Ryan Newman Ryan Newman Penske Racing needs to put out a press release admitting that their decision to paint their wheels blue this year was a complete failure.
13  9 Jimmie Johnson Jimmie Johnson He had the quote of the year when he said, "Yeah, my birthday usually falls on Saturday or Sunday, so ..."
14 NR Brian Vickers Brian Vickers Nice run. But you totally irritated Jeff Gordon in doing so, and you know what that means. It means you won't get introduced to any more of Ingrid's friends.
15 13 Carl Edwards Carl Edwards Making the Chase is so overrated. If he had made the Chase, he never would have gotten that lucrative and snazzy new show with Steve Byrnes.
16 17 Clint Bowyer Clint Bowyer Report: McMurray wearing elevator shoes, perfecting scowl to look more like Bowyer
17 20 Dave Blaney Dave Blaney He has to be glad his wheel fell off on Lap 96. It got him at least six solid seconds of camera time.
18 15 Scott Riggs Scott Riggs I just realized something. Riggs only has four finishes of 30th or worse this year. Riggs has officially made sure he will end the season with fewer 30th-or-worse finishes than Michael Waltrip, who has 14.
19 22 J.J. Yeley J.J. Yeley His recent solid runs could directly lead to layoffs in Joe Gibbs Racing's fabrication department.
20 14 Kurt Busch Kurt Busch Kevin Harvick has got to be really glad be didn't sign to drive the 2 car for 2006.
21 18 Ken Schrader Ken Schrader Report: Fatback not likely to be affected by spinach ban
22 21 Casey Mears Casey Mears Report: Juan Montoya furiously getting ready for 2007 on his Playstation
23 24 Reed Sorenson Reed Sorenson I got an e-mail from a fan who said Reed was nice and signed a bald man's head. Which means that Todd Bodine asked for his autograph.
24 16 Greg Biffle Greg Biffle I sure do miss the Subway commercial where Biff throws the sandwich in Doug Richert's face. If they replay it, watch closely: Richert actually eats a piece of the lettuce.
25 NR Bobby Labonte Bobby Labonte You know that commercial where the crude stick figure of Richard Petty wins and "There's a fight in the infield?" Well, at Loudon, that commercial was being piped into the media center without any picture. So when the announcer says, "Big crash! They are fighting in the infield," the local reporters, who had never seen the commercial, jumped up to go cover it.

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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