NASCAR: Driver Rankings for AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway

Crash NASCAR journalist Chad Smith goes through the field to hand out driver ratings for the AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway.
Denny Hamlin, Joe Gibbs Racing at Kansas
Denny Hamlin, Joe Gibbs Racing at Kansas

Denny Hamlin: 10

Hamlin hꦗas Kansas figured out, and his last-lap pass today was icing on the cake after a strong weekend overall.

Kyle Larson: 10

After getting spun ဣon Lap 5 of the race, Larson did a marvelous job to get back up front an🌃d led the most laps, just came up a bit short after brushing the wall.

William Byron: 9

Byron also had his trouble early in the race anღd was able to recover from two incidents to finish 3rd after starting on pole.

Bubba Wallace: 9

A much-needed momen🍰tum booster for Bubba and the ꦐteam at a place where he won last year.

Ross Chastain: 7

Another top-five, but also another incident on track that seems to be reaching♌ a boiling point with other drivers.

Ross Chastain
Ross Chastain

Joey Logano: 6

He finished 6th but he gained track position by not pitting late in the race and was not one of the stronger⛎ cars as Ford struggled today.

Chase Elliott: 7

Solid run f🎃or Ellio♋tt, who needs finishes like this (and a win, of course) to get into the Playoffs.

Martin Truex Jr: 7

He followed up his win last weekend with another strong top-ten 🌊run.

Tyler Reddick: 6

He was unable to put the No. 45 Toyota in victory lane at Kansas for a third straight time, b𓆉ut it was a solid day for Red꧟dick, outside of the contact with Larson at the start of the race.

Tyler Reddick
Tyler Reddick

Austin Dillon: 6

Like Logano, Dillon picked up some track position with a nicely-timed caution flag, but colle🥃ct🐈ed a much-needed 10th place finish.

Kevin Harvick: 7

He 🀅was never at the front, but none of the Fords were.

Daniel Suarez: 5

It was a🌜nother race where he was outperformed by his teammate💛.

Ryan Blaney: 5

His day started out🍰 okay but he quickly faded with most of the other Ford𒈔s.

Chris Buescher: 5

A mediocre day for RFK Racing, as Buescher and Brad were stuck in the middle of the pack for most of the afternoo𒆙n.

Brad Keselowski: 5

See above.

Noah Gragson: 1

He had contact on the track, later spun out by himself, finished 29th, and♎ got punched in the face o🔜n pit road. Not sure if the day could have gone much worse for the brash rookie.

Noah Gragson
Noah Gragson

Austin Cindric: 2

A flat tire early in the race ruined his day.

Chase Briscoe: 2

Another Ford struggling for speed, but this team also had some mista🌟kes on pit road that cost them.

Ty Gibbs: 4

Gibbs ran up front for the majority of the race but contact with his teammate (Tr🌜uex) in the final stage sent him spin🌄ning.

Kyle Busch: 2

Another brutal day for Kyle, who was penalized for speeding on pit road, penaliz🅺ed for a loose wheel, had contact on the 🃏track with Wallace, and eventually spun out in Stage 2.

Christopher Bell: 3

Like Gibbs, Bell was battling inside the top-fiv𒅌e before he crashed at the end of Stage 2.

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