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PHOENIX

  • Who's Up

Biggest Gain this week:

Matt Kenseth: 8th to 3rd

New This Week :
Elliott Sadler
David Ragan

  • Who's Down

Biggest Drop this week:

Carl Edwards: 4th to 8th

Dropped Out :
Michael Waltrip
David Stremme

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 1
    CHANGE : 0

  • 1

  • Jimmie Johnson

    The last guy to win four races in a row? Jeff Gordon, when he won the championship in 1998.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 2
    CHANGE : 0

  • 2

  • Jeff Gordon

    Jeff was going to give the owner of the No. 48 a piece of his mind after Texas, but realized there's no use talking to yourself about stuff you can't control.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 8
    CHANGE : +5

  • 3

  • Matt Kenseth

    With three top-five finishes since the Carl Edwards incident, Matt's obviously been working extra hard on his flinching.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 5
    CHANGE : +1

  • 4

  • Kyle Busch

    There is no truth to the rumor that Kyle will get out of the car and change his own tires from here on out.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 3
    CHANGE : -2

  • 5

  • Clint Bowyer

    Clint must have missed this Sesame Street episode: "One of these wheels is not tight like the others. One of these wheels just doesn't belong ..."

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 7
    CHANGE : +1

  • 6

  • Jeff Burton

    Stat of the week: All four of Jeff's top-10 finishes in the Chase have come from starting positions of 27th or worse.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 7
    CHANGE : 0

  • 7

  • Tony Stewart

    Tony has led 980 laps this season, but none since Talladega.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 4
    CHANGE : -4

  • 8

  • Carl Edwards

    After Carl's frustration at Fort Worth, Phoenix couldn't come at a better time. He's been no worse than 11th there in his last five starts.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 13
    CHANGE : +4

  • 9

  • Kevin Harvick

    Kevin has squeezed through more accidents this season than a guy working at an orange juice factory.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 11
    CHANGE : +1

  • 10

  • Kurt Busch

    You know that crewman had been waiting all season to use that big ol' sledgehammer to whack something.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 9
    CHANGE : -2

  • 11

  • Denny Hamlin

    Times Denny has finished ahead of Kyle Petty since Dover: 3

    Times Kyle Petty has finished ahead of Denny since Dover: 3

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 16
    CHANGE : +4

  • 12

  • Martin Truex Jr.

    With the way his luck has been lately, Martin's probably surprised he didn't run into a herd of cattle or the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders on a restart.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 17
    CHANGE : +4

  • 13

  • Ryan Newman

    It's been all or nothing for Ryan in the Chase. Four top-10 finishes -- and four DNFs.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 10
    CHANGE : -4

  • 14

  • Kasey Kahne

    Good car, bad luck equals an 18th-place finish.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 15
    CHANGE : 0

  • 15

  • Dale Earnhardt Jr.

    Junior summed it up nicely: "It's hard to explain: It was loose, it was tight, it was slow."

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 12
    CHANGE : -4

  • 16

  • Casey Mears

    It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: The new Mears Gang ornaments go on sale Nov. 14.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 14
    CHANGE : -3

  • 17

  • Greg Biffle

    Nicole bought some nice, juicy steaks for the grill, but I think she meant for Greg to cook them after the race.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 19
    CHANGE : +1

  • 18

  • Jamie McMurray

    That was Jamie's second top-10 finish since his victory at Daytona.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 20
    CHANGE : +1

  • 19

  • Juan Montoya

    Juan was fast before his engine had other ideas.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 22
    CHANGE : +2

  • 20

  • Tony Raines

    Tony was doing great until he got distracted by the millions of tiny little mirrors.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 18
    CHANGE : -3

  • 21

  • Reed Sorenson

    Cleanup on Aisle 5: Not much you can do when somebody drops a big bag of M&M's right in the middle of the track.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 21
    CHANGE : -1

  • 22

  • Bobby Labonte

    The way things have been going, sometimes just putting it back on the hauler in the same shape that it rolled off is a successful weekend.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : NR

  • 23

  • Elliott Sadler

    There haven't been a lot of reasons for Elliott to smile this season, but Texas was one of them.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 23
    CHANGE : -1

  • 24

  • J.J. Yeley

    Don't mess with Texas: J.J. spun but didn't hit anything and wound up 17th. "The way my luck normally goes here, the thing would have caught on fire and wrecked all the way down the front straightaway."

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : NR

  • 25

  • David Ragan

    Everybody else was checking up, and he got stuck with the tab.

2007 Power Rankings

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