Week Seven - StatChat Power Rankings After Martinsville
- Adam Carabine
- Apr 3
- 3 min read
By Adam Carabine
A look at the Top Ten in our weekly Power Rankings, plus the biggest movers! While finishing position is important, it’s not always indicative of the full picture. StatChat rankings are determined using a large number of statistical inputs, with an emphasis placed on the most recent 5 races.
Ryan Blaney – This week: 10 – Last week: 6
His performance at Martinsville was decent, he finished just outside of the Top 10. But last week’s DNF is catching up to him and he falls a few spots as a result.
Bubba Wallace – This week: 9 – Last week: 12
Wallace has been on the rise for the past few weeks, and a convincing P3 at a difficult short track like Martinsville helps. His average running position was 4th all day long.
Joey Logano – This week: 8 – Last week: 9
Logano earns his first Top 10 of 2025, which is crazy enough as it is. However, he gained 17 spots over the course of the final restart which was very impressive. He had the highest pass differential of all drivers, which was no surprise after bringing it home P8.
Tyler Reddick – This week: 7 – Last week: 5
It was a quieter day for Reddick at Martinsville. At this point, he’s always expected to run near the front, but he was kind of mired in the low teens all day long. He still had the most quality passes (green flag passes in the Top 15) of anyone, which limited the damage to his Power Ranking spot.
Alex Bowman – This week: 6 – Last week: 3
Bowman’s worst start of the season was Martinsville, where he finished P28. He led 6 laps, started on the second row, but things went wrong for him and so he slides out of the Top 5 in the Power Rankings.
Chase Elliott – This week: 5 – Last week: 8
At some points, Elliott looked to have the fastest car of anyone at Martinsville. Bringing it home P4 might be seen as a disappointment based on the speed he showed early on, but it moves him into the Top 5 of our Power Rankings.
Kyle Larson – This week: 4 – Last week: 4
Larson holds serve after a win last week at Homestead. A top 5 finish, with stage points, and an average running position of 6th all point to Larson maintaining his grip on the Top 5.
Denny Hamlin – This week: 3 – Last week: 13
It wasn’t just a win at Martinsville, it was a dominant performance in all of the underlying stat categories as well. He had 75 fast laps, his average running position was 2nd, and he led the most laps of anyone by a mile – 274.
William Byron – This week: 2 – Last week: 1
It wasn’t Byron’s best day on the track at Martinsville. He limped the 24 car home to P22, and his underlying stats weren’t amazing. He had just cracked into the lead last week in our Power Rankings, but heavy is the crown – he falls to P2.
Christopher Bell – This week: 1 – Last week: 2
Christopher Bell returns to the front of the pack after a couple of weeks off. He finished P2 at Martinsville, and spent a good majority of the day up front after winning the pole. This team is not to be messed with.
Biggest Movers
Riley Herbst – This week: 34 – Last week: 26
Falls 8 places
Denny Hamlin – This week: 13 – Last week: 3
Gains 10 places
Rest of the List
11. Kyle Busch LW: 11 --
12. Ryan Preece LW: 14 +2
13. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. LW: 10 -3
14. Austin Cindric LW: 7 -7
15. Ross Chastain LW: 21 +6
16. Josh Berry LW: 19 +3
17. Chase Briscoe LW: 18 +1
18. Chris Buescher LW: 16 -2
19. Michael McDowell LW: 17 -2
20. Todd Gilliland LW: 22 +2
21. JH Nemechek LW: 15 -6
22. AJ Allmendinger LW: 31 +9
23. Daniel Suarez LW: 20 -3
24. Ty Dillon LW: 27 +3
25. Justin Haley LW: 24 -1
26. Erik Jones LW: 23 -3
27. Zane Smith LW: 34 +7
28. Ty Gibbs LW: 29 +1
29. Austin Dillon LW: 28 -1
30. SVG LW: 25 -5
31. Brad Keselowski LW: 30 -1
32. Carson Hocevar LW: 33 +1
33. Noah Gragson LW: 32 -1
34. Riley Herbst LW: 26 -8
35. Cody Ware LW: 36 +1
36. Cole Custer LW: 35 -1
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