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  • Who's Up

Biggest Gain this week:

Denny Hamlin: 10th to 5th

New This Week :
Kurt Busch

  • Who's Down

Biggest Drop this week:

Jeff Gordon: 5th to 10th

Dropped Out :
Martin Truex Jr.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 2
    CHANGE : +1

  • 1

  • Jimmie Johnson

    Weeks at No. 1 in 2008: 8

    How confident was Jimmie that he'd win three consecutive championships? Before he left the Waldorf-Astoria last year, he reserved the same room.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 1
    CHANGE : -1

  • 2

  • Carl Edwards

    Weeks at No. 1 in 2008: 8

    The last driver to win eight races in a season but not the championship? Jimmie Johnson in 2004.



  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 3
    CHANGE : 0

  • 3

  • Kyle Busch

    Weeks at No. 1 in 2008: 12

    If Kyle doesn't get invited to New York for the banquet, that's OK. There's nowhere in Manhattan to park the motorhome.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 4
    CHANGE : 0

  • 4

  • Greg Biffle

    If Greg leads a lap at Homestead, watch out. He led 173 laps in his three victories, and none in his three finishes outside of the top 10.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 10
    CHANGE : +5

  • 5

  • Denny Hamlin

    Denny has a good chance of winding up as the top Toyota driver in the standings, which will get him a 10 percent discount the next time he brings the Sequoia in for service.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 8
    CHANGE : +2

  • 6

  • Jeff Burton

    Weeks at No. 1 in 2008: 5

    Jeff on Barack Obama: "It's a remarkable thing for a young guy like that with little experience to be elected president." Obama was born in 1961. Jeff was born in 1967.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 7
    CHANGE : 0

  • 7

  • Kevin Harvick

    Weeks at No. 1 in 2008: 1

    Perhaps a return to the Sunshine State will do the No. 29 team some good. Kevin's last Cup win came in the 2007 Daytona 500.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 11
    CHANGE : +3

  • 8

  • Dale Earnhardt Jr.

    Weeks at No. 1 in 2008: 1

    To no one's surprise, Dale was a landslide winner once voting was tallied for President of Junior Nation in 2008.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 6
    CHANGE : -3

  • 9

  • Clint Bowyer

    Clint on what he plans to do during the offseason: "... try and catch up on some sleep and get some rest." In other news, No-Doz will be added as an associate sponsor in 2009.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 5
    CHANGE : -5

  • 10

  • Jeff Gordon

    I would have bet the house on Jeff winning at least one race in 2008. Of course, so did the banking industry, and look how well that turned out.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 9
    CHANGE : -2

  • 11

  • Matt Kenseth

    I guess it's old habit. Coming off that last turn, Matt saw a McDonald's sign -- and a kid in the window -- and thought it was a drive-thru.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 12
    CHANGE : 0

  • 12

  • David Ragan

    David appreciated the kind words from Tony Stewart last week, even though he had to laugh about Tony's description of his driving style: "I feel like I've come a long way since I was a dart with no feathers just a couple of years ago."

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 15
    CHANGE : +2

  • 13

  • Jamie McMurray

    Jamie on ABC's decision to cut away from Sunday's race before the finish: "I can't imagine America's Funniest Home Videos would take priority over us." Especially when watching David Gilliland try to drive off Scott Speed's car was funnier than anything on that show.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : 13
    CHANGE : -1

  • 14

  • Tony Stewart

    Bow-tied up in litigation?: Sunday marks Tony's last race in a Toyota. Of course, by February, Toyota might be the only car manufacturer in NASCAR that isn't under backruptcy protection.

  • Rank

    PREVIOUS : NR

  • 15

  • Kurt Busch

    Weeks at No. 1 in 2008: 1

    Kurt finished second at Daytona and second at Phoenix. Too bad all those other races in the middle sort of got in the way.

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