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NASCAR.com Power Rankings: Bristol/Richmond

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Joe Gibbs Racing

Busch's winning ways ended at Bristol, but he has a good shot to regain them at Richmond, where he has an average finishing position of 7.1 and four victories -- the most among active Cup drivers.

MORE: Tire issues ruin Bristol race for Busch

Edwards flat-out dominated a tough Bristol race, and won at Richmond as recently as 2013. No slowing down for the No. 19 team.

MORE: Edwards wins Bristol from pole

Harvick has three wins at Richmond, but all came in his RCR days. Still, he's got an average finish of 8.0 since he joined SHR, which is better than his overall number of 10.8 at the Virginia track.

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Hendrick Motorsports

Jimmie Johnson struggled mightily at Bristol and was unable to drive back through the field like some of his peers. He does have three straight top 10s at Richmond, however, which were preceded by four straight non-top 10s.

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Hendrick Motorsports

Junior's Bristol performance will likely rank among the best of the year, being forced to drive to the front from the back at the very start of the race. Nearly made it work, too.

MORE: Junior rebounds for best finish

Logano certainly would welcome a solid performance, and as the defending pole-winner of this Richmond race, it could certainly come this weekend if he starts high in the running order again.

The Richmond spring race's defending winner should have a great shot (especially since he led 291 of 400 laps last year), coming off a strong run at Bristol.

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Joe Gibbs Racing

We could see another Joe Gibbs Racing dominant performance at Richmond, where Hamlin has the second-best finishing position (10.8) to his teammate, Kyle Busch.

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Team Penske

Keselowski's average finishing position (16.2) is nearly double that of his starting position (8.8). He's won there before, but he's had trouble closing at times.

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Hendrick Motorsports

Elliott notched a career-best finish for the second straight week, and now heads to a track at which he has experience. The HMS driver started and finished 16th at Richmond last year.

MORE: Elliott battles for best finish

Truex has really only had one bad race thus far (Auto Club), but has really only had one exceptional one, too (Daytona).

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Richard Childress Racing

Dillon's finishing position has worsened two races in a row since his season-best fourth-place finish at Martinsville.

Kenseth still can't catch a break. The season is more than one-fifth over, however, and he'll need to right the ship sooner than later.

MORE: Kenseth sent into wall, out of race

Blaney ran in the top five for a good portion of the race once again, and it's becoming clear that'll be the norm rather than the exception. 

MORE: Blaney pranks in presser

Even at the tracks (like Bristol) that Larson should be performing well at, he isn't. After eight top-five finishes in his rookie season, he has just three in 43 races since.

With two of his teammates (one of which is a rookie) landing in the top-five, while he meanders among the middle of the pack at a track he's had success at, Kahne has to be frustrated.

McMurray started 13th and finished 13th at Bristol. Any guesses as to where he sits in the standings?

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Roush Fenway Racing

We're eight races in, and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is higher in the standings than Matt Kenseth, who he replaced at Roush Fenway Racing. Stenhouse is putting it all together, Kenseth is slipping, or ... both?

Bristol was just Ryan Newman's second top 10 of the season. He's led just one lap this year.

Allmendinger showed for a good while on Sunday that he can hang at Bristol, running near the front early. He also finished sixth at the spring Richmond race in 2014.