NASCAR: Driver Rankings For The Toyota Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Won by Martin Truex Jr

Crash NASCAR journalist Chad Smith goes through the field to hand out driver ratings for the Toyota Save Mart 350 at Sonoma.
Kyle Busch, Richard Childress Racing at Sonoma
Kyle Busch, Richard Childress Racing at Sonoma

Martin Truex Jr: 10

Martin is t🍰he master of Son𝄹oma, and reminded everyone of that today.

Kyle Busch: 9

Won his thi💧rd race𒁏 of the season last weekend and finished 2nd today at Sonoma.

Joey Logano: 6

Good fortune brought him tracꦐk position, otherwise he was looking at a finiᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚsh outside of the top 20.

Chris Buescher: 8

Continues to quietly produce outstanding r🍸esults for RFK Racing.

Chase Elliott: 8

A top-five finish was👍 great but he will need to win to get into the playoffs.

Chase Elliott
Chase Elliott

AJ Allmendinger: 7

Not his best road cour🐲se performance 👍but another solid 6th place result.

Michael McDowell: 7

McDowell has always been a great road course racer, and demonstrated that again today෴.

Kyle Larson: 7

Expectations were high, so even an 8th place finish seems ♊disappointing.

Christopher Bell: 7

Bell was another driver many expected to꧟ see batting for the win, especially given Toyota's strength.

Ross Chastain: 5

Like Logano, he would likely have a finish around 25th had he not gotten th🎐e l𓄧ucky timing during the first caution.

Kevin Harvick: 7

Just missed🧜 the top-ten in his final Sonoma start, but continues to pad his points in the championship.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr: 7

A solid 12th place run for the Dꦛaytona 500 winner, who continues to impress.

William Byron: 6

Not the performance many people expected today for the playoff point🍒s leader.

Alex Bowman: 6

Another middle-of-the-pack finish for this guy.

Brad Keselowski: 6

A spin early🍸 in the race put him in a hole and 🐻he was never able to recover.

Bubba Wallace: 6

💎Not the weekend he was looking for, especially since Toyota was on p🐭oint.

Ty Gibbs: 6

Fꦬinishing 18th wasn't what he wanted, but this was his first trip to Sonoma.

Ty Gibbs
Ty Gibbs

Austin Cindric: 3

Penske was out to lunc🤡h all weekend, and road racer extraordinaire Cindric was nowhere to be found.

Grant Enfinger: 7

No𒀰t a bad Cup debut for Enfinger, who did much better tไhan Gragson would have done.

Aric Almirola: 4

He won the Xfinity Series race yesterday, but this one went mu🐈ch different.

Chase Briscoe: 4

Struggle💮d like his teammate Almiroꩵla, and finished right behind him.

Ryan Blaney: 3

A speeding penalty, multiple spins, an▨d a frustrating result for the Penske driver.

Tyler Reddick: 6

He was running well early but a flat tirꦏe late in the race ruined his day.

Denny Hamlin: 2

It doesn't get much worse than taking you🅘rself out of the race, and being the only driver to not finish.

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