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  • Who's Up

Biggest Gain this week:

Kurt Busch: 17th to 12th

New This Week :
Juan Montoya
Dave Blaney

  • Who's Down

Biggest Drop this week:

Jimmie Johnson: 6th to 11th

Dropped Out :
Robby Gordon
Kasey Kahne

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 1
    CHANGE : 0

  • 1

  • Jeff Gordon

    When they held the "women in racing" seminar at Indy this week, I half expected Ella Sofia to be there, dressed in a little driver's suit embroidered "The Next Jeff Gordon."

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 5
    CHANGE : +3

  • 2

  • Tony Stewart

    Greg Zipadelli is now lobbying for NASCAR to install a yard of bricks at the start-finish line of every track on the Nextel Cup circuit.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 3
    CHANGE : 0

  • 3

  • Matt Kenseth

    Jeff Burton on driver personalities: "I look through the garage and I see Tony Stewart, there's Carl Edwards, there's me ... well, we can't talk about Matt Kenseth because he's a robot." Yeah, a robot with 14 top-10 finishes, including four in a row.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 4
    CHANGE : 0

  • 4

  • Jeff Burton

    Keep that battery fully charged: Jeff's exhibiting robot-like tendencies of his own this season, with four top-10s in his last five starts.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 2
    CHANGE : -3

  • 5

  • Carl Edwards

    Carl must have been good at dodgeball as a kid, because he spent half the race on Sunday trying to miss all the wrecks.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 9
    CHANGE : +3

  • 6

  • Kyle Busch

    No more than 24 hours after Kyle apologized to his Hendrick teammates, he went and ticked off Jeff Burton, who may end up as his teammate in 2008.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 10
    CHANGE : +3

  • 7

  • Kevin Harvick

    As Kevin drove off to the hauler Sunday after finishing seventh, some jokester said, "Elvis has left the building."

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 8
    CHANGE : 0

  • 8

  • Clint Bowyer

    If Clint makes the Chase, he should look back on Indy and be proud of how hard he drove from the back of the field twice to get a 13th-place finish.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 11
    CHANGE : +2

  • 9

  • Martin Truex Jr.

    Martin considers new teammate Mark Martin a "father figure." Well, he should, since Mark and Martin's dad are about the same age.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 7
    CHANGE : -3

  • 10

  • Denny Hamlin

    Your mileage may vary: Since the Speedway's in the middle of Indianapolis, Denny's team must have forgotten to calculate for city mileage instead of highway mileage.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 6
    CHANGE : -5

  • 11

  • Jimmie Johnson

    Chad Knaus' birthday is Aug. 5, but Jimmie, I think he'd rather blow out burning candles instead of a burning car.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 17
    CHANGE : +5

  • 12

  • Kurt Busch

    Not to be outdone by his kid brother, Kurt went around the garage area Sunday apologizing for global warming, the price of gasoline, slow Internet connections and Lindsay Lohan.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 18
    CHANGE : +5

  • 13

  • Mark Martin

    Who needs second gear? The way things are going, Mark could probably post a top-10 finish even if he had to push the car himself.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 16
    CHANGE : +2

  • 14

  • Greg Biffle

    News item: NHL goaltender Martin Brodeur will be holding the pit sign for Greg's crew at Montreal. I wonder if Busch Series officials could penalize him two minutes for slashing?

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 12
    CHANGE : -3

  • 15

  • Ryan Newman

    The Brickyard's not always kind to native Hoosiers: Sunday was the third time Ryan's finished 30th or worse at Indy.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 13
    CHANGE : -3

  • 16

  • Dale Earnhardt Jr.

    Lots of folks headed for the exits around Lap 140 on Sunday, either to beat the traffic or because Junior blew up.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 21
    CHANGE : +4

  • 17

  • David Ragan

    Juan Montoya gets all the publicity, but David's only 24 points back in the rookie standings.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 14
    CHANGE : -4

  • 18

  • Jamie McMurray

    "We were joking about the Brickyard and someone told me I should shave my head if I win." You can relax for another year, ladies.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 19
    CHANGE : 0

  • 19

  • Bobby Labonte

    Three years ago, the No. 43 had nine top-20 finishes all season long. Bobby now has 12, with 16 more races to go.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 15
    CHANGE : -5

  • 20

  • Casey Mears

    Interesting fact: Casey made more for finishing 35th on Sunday than his uncle Rick did for finishing third at Indy in 1983.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : NR

  • 21

  • Juan Montoya

    Just to show how simple he makes it look, Juan will now enter and win the motorcycle race at Indy next fall.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 25
    CHANGE : +3

  • 22

  • Reed Sorenson

    A pole and a fifth-place finish at Indy: Maybe now they'll stop using his uniform for a pinata in the next commerical.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 23
    CHANGE : 0

  • 23

  • David Gilliland

    The best thing about the new partnership? It's now easier for David's family to get Paul Newman's autograph.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : NR

  • 24

  • Dave Blaney

    Dave's first top-10 finish of the season is a perfect example of "Cat man do."

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 20
    CHANGE : -5

  • 25

  • J.J. Yeley

    If J.J. had been wearing the same bright green plus-fours on Sunday that he donned at the golf course earlier in the week, maybe Robby Gordon would have seen him through the smoke.

2007 Power Rankings

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