NASCAR: Driver Rankings For Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway

Crash NASCAR journalist Chad Smith goes through the field to hand out driver ratings for the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Ryan Blaney, Team Penske, Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte
Ryan Blaney, Team Penske, Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte

Ryan Blaney: 10

Finally, the 59-race winless streak is oveꦕr after a monster Coca-Cola 600 vic🎶tory.

William Byron: 9

A great day for Byron, who started on pole, l♑ed 91 laps, won the 🍬first stage, and finished 2nd.

Martin Truex Jr: 9

Truex continues his strong run of momentꦅum with a 3rd place result.

Bubba Wallace: 9

🐬Another impressive top-five run for Wallace, who seems to be gaining confidence.

Tyler Reddick: 9

Red♔dick was one of the strongest cars in this race, and he a♕bsolutely deserved his top-five finish.

Tyler Reddick, Bubba Wallace
Tyler Reddick, Bubba Wallace

Kyle Busch: 7

Another wild roller coaster for Busch, who was involved in two accidents but managed to rebound♛ to finish 6th.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr: 7

He continues to produce solid results as his career yeꦛar continues.

Chris Buescher: 7

Buescher won Stage 2 and was runni🐷ng up front and held on for another top-ten finish.

Austin Dillon: 7

A surprise result f🌟or Dillon, who was never real🥂ly in the picture in this race.

Zane Smith: 8

A top-ten finish feels like a win for the rookie.

Kevin Harvick: 7

Harvick was running up front for most of the race, but a late spin🦩 ended his hopes of winning his final 600.

Alex Bowman: 6

It waꦏs his first race back after missing six weeks, but just another mediocre performance for the vanilla driver.

Ryan Preece: 6

A decent day for Preece, who needs to start col🎐lecting some solid results🔴.

AJ Allmendinger: 6

Allmendinger was involved in♔ a crash late in the race but still managed a top-15 finish.

Justin Haley: 6

Finished j🏅ust behind his veteran teammate, but had a quiet night.

Brad Keselowski: 6

What started out as a strong day quickly went south fꦿor Keselowski, who had to pit for a loose wheel⛄, then crashed later on.

Brad Keselowski, Denny Hamlin
Brad Keselowski, Denny Hamlin

Chase Briscoe: 5

Briscoe was out to lunch, compared to his Stewart Haas Racing te๊ammates.

Joey Logano: 5

Logano w♛as never in contention, but also got collected in the final accident when Kyle Larson spun.

Ross Chastain: 5

Neither Trackh🌸ouse Racing driver looked the same after the rain delay.

Daniel Suarez: 5

See above

Christopher Bell: 5

It was a rough evening for Bell, who was penali🌜zed dur𒊎ing the rain delay, then spun on his own later in the race.

Aric Almirola: 4

The highliﷺght of his nig🍎ht was shoving Bubba Wallace on pit lane...

Ty Gibbs: 7

Gib✨bs was running inside the top-ten for most of the race but was collected in a crash later on and ended up 26th, which was not reflective of his performance on Monday.

Kyle Larson: 6

Larson was up🍬 near the front and was in contention for the win until he spun on his own in the clജosing laps.

Chase Elliott: 2

Not his best day, after retaliating against Denny Hamlin after the two made conta꧋ct.

Denny Hamlin: 5

Hamlin was leading laps and running well until he and Chaಞse got together.

Jimmie Johnson: 1

It was a brutal night for Johnson and the Legacy Motor Cl✤ub organization. Johnson spun early in the race, got taken out by teammate Noa🅰h Gragson, and all three team cars were in the garage at one point in the race.

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