{"id":65463,"date":"2025-07-14T17:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65463\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T17:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:49:12","slug":"nascar-power-rankings-our-updated-top-10-drivers-list-wheres-shane-van-gisbergen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65463\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Power Rankings: Our updated top 10 drivers list. Where’s Shane van Gisbergen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Might as well lead off with who’s not here<\/a> in our humble Top 10.<\/p>\n

It’s tough to win two straight races<\/a>, and three of the past five, and stay on the outside looking in. But such is the disparity between Shane van Gisbergen on road courses and Shane van Gisbergen everywhere else.<\/p>\n

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Given that one-sixth of the Cup schedule is on road courses, should SVG get at least a cursory visit to that 10th slot on our board this week? If not now, for Pete’s sake, when? Fair question.<\/p>\n

\"He's<\/p>\n

He’s collecting trophies, but Shane van Gisbergen hasn’t cracked our top-10 yet.<\/p>\n

Here’s another fair question: Should Denny Hamlin still be on the far-north end of our top 10? He’s had two clunkers in the past three weeks, sandwiched around a rare quality finish on a road course, maybe because that road course was actually a street course.<\/p>\n

But with the other three-time winners (Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell) bogged down a bit, who else would you put there? So it remains Denny, for now.<\/p>\n

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1. Denny Hamlin\"CHICAGO,<\/p>\n

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – JULY 06: Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 Progressive Toyota, drives during the NASCAR Cup Series Grant Park 165 at Chicago Street Course on July 06, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by James Gilbert\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Grip on our top spot is weakening, as is his grip on the 23XI charter, if NASCAR decides to play hardball.<\/p>\n

2. Chase Elliott<\/p>\n

Keeps piling up points and conserving room in the trophy case.<\/p>\n

3. Kyle Larson<\/p>\n

Played some pinball at Sonoma as his Summer of Shove continues.<\/p>\n

4. Christopher Bell<\/p>\n

A fifth at Sonoma slowed his recent mini-slump.<\/p>\n

5. Chase Briscoe<\/p>\n

Made SVG work on the late restarts at Sonoma and got a rare good road-course finish.<\/p>\n

6. Chris Buescher<\/p>\n

Wonders why he’s never found the White Cliffs of Dover.<\/p>\n

7. William Byron<\/p>\n

Not back on eight cylinders yet, but probably back to 7\u00bd.<\/p>\n

8. Alex Bowman<\/p>\n

A win and five top-5s in his last seven Dover starts.<\/p>\n

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9. Tyler Reddick<\/p>\n

Made some hay at road courses the past two weeks, but right-hand turns at Dover aren’t recommended.<\/p>\n

10. Ryan Blaney<\/p>\n

Wine country delivered sour grapes. Raise your hand if you didn’t irritate Blaney at Sonoma.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Email Ken Willis at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: NASCAR Top 10: From Denny Hamlin to Ryan Blaney, and where’s SVG?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Might as well lead off with who’s not here in our humble Top 10. It’s tough to win…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[16413,11130,15865,1406,40674,20534,9314,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-65463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-christopher-bell","9":"tag-denny-hamlin","10":"tag-kyle-larson","11":"tag-nascar","12":"tag-road-courses","13":"tag-ryan-blaney","14":"tag-shane-van-gisbergen","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114852853416872390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}