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 has 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 on Lap 5 of the race, Larson did a marvelo𝄹us job to get back up front and led 🃏the most laps, just came up a bit short after brushing the wall.

William Byron: 9

Byron also had his trouble e🔯arly in the race and was able to recover from two incidents to 🌳finish 3rd after starting on pole.

Bubba Wallace: 9

A𝓰 much-neeไded momentum booster for Bubba and the team 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 driver🦹s.

Ross Chastain
Ross Chastain

Joey Logano: 6

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

Chase Elliott: 7

Solid run for Elliott, who needs finishes like this (and a win, of cour💯se) to g𓂃et into the Playoffs.

Martin Truex Jr: 7

He followed up his wi🍬n las🅰t weekend with another strong top-ten run.

Tyler Reddick: 6

He𝐆 was unable to put the No. 45 Toyota in victory lane at Kansas for a third straight time, but it was a solid day for Reddick, 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 collected a much-needed 10tꦕh place finish.

Kevin Harvick: 7

Heꦏ was never at the front, but none of the Fords ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚwere.

Daniel Suarez: 5

It🅘 was another race where he was outperformed by his te🎀ammate.

Ryan Blaney: 5

His day started out okay but he quickly fade𒀰d with most of the other🐓 Fords.

Chris Buescher: 5

A mediocre day for RFK Racing, as Bues𝔍cher and Brad were stuck in the middle of the pack for most of the aftern💖oon.

Brad Keselowski: 5

See above.

Noah Gragson: 1

He had contact on the track, later spun out by himself, finished 29th, and got pun🍸ched in the face on 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 mistakes on pit road that cost them.

Ty Gibbs: 4

Gibbs ran up front for the majority of the race but contact with his teammate (Truex)✨ in the final𒈔 stage sent him spinning.

Kyle Busch: 2

Another brutal day for Kyle, who was penalized for speeding on pit road, penalized for a loose wheel, had contact on the♔ track with Wallace, and eventu🌌ally spun out in Stage 2.

Christopher Bell: 3

Like Gibbs, Bell was battling inside the top-five before he cras🗹hed at the end of Stage 2.

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