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NASCAR visited the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday. Right here’s a take a look at this week’s “Energy Rankings” after the Verizon 200 on the Brickyard:
Martin Truex Jr.
The Joe Gibbs Racing driver is closing in on successful the common season factors championship. Truex Jr. turned in a gentle Indianapolis efficiency ending seventh and appears to place some precious factors within the kitty over the remainder of the common season schedule.
Level Standings: 1st
Final Week: third
2. Chris Buescher
He got here up only one spot in need of conserving his top-10 street course end streak alive. After back-to-back victories in Richmond and Michigan, Buescher left Indianapolis with an Eleventh-place Brickyard end.
Level Standings: tenth
Final Week: 1st
3. Denny Hamlin
The No. 11 workforce used some technique to try to collect factors wanting on the large image. However total not the day Hamlin and firm was searching for as he left Indianapolis with a quite disappointing nineteenth place effort.
Level Standings: 2nd
Final Week: 2nd
4. Kyle Larson
He gained the Knoxville Nationals on Saturday night time after which turned in a strong if not spectacular efficiency in Indy. Larson stayed contained in the top-10 and put an eighth place end on the board.
Level Standings: fifth
Final Week: fifth
5. William Byron
The weekend started with a catastrophe for the No. 24 workforce when Byron’s automotive failed inspection thrice. However regardless of beginning on the rear of the sphere and serving a move by penalty to begin the race, Byron rallied again for a 14th place Indianapolis end.
Level Standings: third
Final Week: 4th
6. Michael McDowell
The regular climb of Entrance Row Motorsports this season got here to a crescendo with McDowell’s race successful efficiency in Indianapolis. He led a dominating 54 laps to the checkered flag and with the win solidified a spot within the Playoffs.
Level Standings: fifteenth
Final Week: NR
7. Tyler Reddick
Not fairly adequate to make consecutive journeys to Victory Lane in Indianapolis however Reddick did have one other sturdy 23XI Racing Toyota at The Brickyard. After beginning exterior the entrance row he took the checkered lag in fourth place.
Level Standings: twelfth
Final Week: NR
8. Ross Chastain
Center of the pack day for Chastain who wasn’t wherever close to the middle of controversy at Indianapolis like final yr when he took an escape route round Flip 1 on a late restart. A seventeenth place end for the Trackhouse Racing driver on Sunday.
Level Standings: seventh
Final Week: tenth
9. Ryan Blaney
The perfect ending automotive of the Group Penske steady however that’s not saying lots after Sunday in Indianapolis. Blaney crossed the end line in thirteenth place and continues like his teammates to search for pace and consistence because the common season winds down.
Level Standings: ninth
Final Week: eighth
10. Chase Elliott
A robust run for Elliott Sunday with a second place Indianapolis end. However he truly misplaced floor within the Playoff level standings and is dealing with should win conditions at The Glen and Daytona to make the post-season.
Level Standings: nineteenth
Final Week: NR
Dropped Out: Joey Logano, Kyle Busch, Kevin harvick