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 st🌠reak is over after a monster Coca-Cola 600 victory.

William Byron: 9

A great day for Byron, who started on pole, l꧙ed 91 laps, won the first stage, and finished 2nd.

Martin Truex Jr: 9

Truex continues his strong run of momentum with a 3rd p🌟🍬lace result.

Bubba Wallace: 9

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

Tyler Reddick: 9

Reddick was one of the strongest cars in this race, and🍷 he absolutely deserved෴ his top-five finish.

Tyler Reddick, Bubba Wallace
Tyler Reddick, Bubba Wallace

Kyle Busch: 7

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

Ricky Stenhouse Jr: 7

He continues to produce solid results🌞 as his career year continues.

Chris Buescher: 7

Bue💙scher won Stage 2 and was ru💜nning up front and held on for another top-ten finish.

Austin Dillon: 7

A surprise result for Dillon, who was never really in the picture in this raceಌ.

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 raಞce, but a late spin ended his hopes of winning his final 600.

Alex Bowman: 6

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

Ryan Preece: 6

A decent day for Preece, who neeꦛds to start collecting some solid results.

AJ Allmendinger: 6

Allmendinger was involved in a crash late in𝓰 the race but still managed a top-15 finis🍎h.

Justin Haley: 6

Finished just behind his vet♚eran teammate, but h🍎ad a quiet night.

Brad Keselowski: 6

What started out as a strong day quickly went so𓂃uth for 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 Raci🦩🌊ng teammates.

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 Trackhouse Racinꦜg 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 penalized during the rain delay, then spun on his ꧂own later in the race.

Aric Almirola: 4

The highlight of his night was shoving🥃 Bubba 𓆉Wallace on pit lane...

Ty Gibbs: 7

Gibbs 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 c📖l⛦osing laps.

Chase Elliott: 2

Not his best day, a🎃fter retaliating against Denny Hamlin after the two made contact.

Denny Hamlin: 5

Haඣmlin was leading laps and running well until he and Chase got together.

Jimmie Johnson: 1

It was a brutal night for Johnson and the Legacy Motor Club organization. Johnson spun early in the race, got taken out by teammate Noah Gra🌄gson, and all three team cars were in the garage at one point in the race.

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