Denny Hamlin maintains No. 1 spot in NBC Sports NASCAR Power Rankings

While there was a new winner for the season last weekend at World Wide Technology Raceway in Austin Cindric, the No. 1 spot still belongs to Denny Hamlin.

The Joe Gibbs Racing driver continued his hot run with a runner-up finish to Cindric.

Here’s a look at the NBC Sports NASCAR Power Rankings after this past weekend’s race:

While there was a new winner for the season last weekend at World Wide Technology Raceway in Austin Cindric, the No. 1 spot still belongs to Denny Hamlin.

The Joe Gibbs Racing driver continued his hot run with a runner-up finish to Cindric.

Here’s a look at the NBC Sports NASCAR Power Rankings after this past weekend’s race:

While there was a new winner for the season last weekend at World Wide Technology Raceway in Austin Cindric, the No. 1 spot still belongs to Denny Hamlin.

The Joe Gibbs Racing driver continued his hot run with a runner-up finish to Cindric.

Here’s a look at the NBC Sports NASCAR Power Rankings after this past weekend’s races

1. Denny Hamlin (Last week: 1): His runner-up finish was his fifth consecutive top-five finish. To put that into perspective, that’s the same number of top-10 finishes reigning Cup champion Ryan Blaney has this season.

2. Brad Keselowski (3) — He placed third last weekend for his third consecutive top-three finish. He has finished in the top three in five of the last seven races.

3. Kyle Larson (2) — He finished 10th despite an incident with Kyle Busch last weekend. Larson has five top 10s in the last eight races, including a win, two runner-up results and a third-place finish.