Darlington NASCAR Next Gen Speed Rankings
NOTE: Truex and Blaney weren’t scored in 2024 #2 due to their extreme early exits.
Rank | Driver | Darlington #1 2022 | Darlington #2 2022 | Darlington #1 2023 | Darlington #2 2023 | Darlington #1 2024 | Darlington #2 2024 | Avg. Speed Rank |
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1 | William Byron | 3 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4.17 |
2 | Tyler Reddick | 5 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5.83 |
3 | Kyle Larson | 5 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 6.33 |
4 | Denny Hamlin | 11 | 2 | 17 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 7.33 |
5 | Ryan Blaney | 13 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 9.20 | |
6 | Martin Truex Jr | 4 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 17 | 9.40 | |
7 | Kyle Busch | 8 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 24 | 10 | 10.00 |
8 | Ross Chastain | 2 | 11 | 1 | 15 | 15 | 19 | 10.50 |
8 | Bubba Wallace | 14 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 10.50 |
10 | Joey Logano | 1 | 5 | 14 | 22 | 8 | 14 | 10.67 |
11 | Christopher Bell | 7 | 4 | 6 | 25 | 19 | 6 | 11.17 |
12 | Brad Keselowski | 27 | 19 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 19 | 13.83 |
13 | Erik Jones | 9 | 8 | 22 | 7 | 25 | 14 | 14.17 |
14 | Josh Berry | 30 | 11 | 4 | 15.00 | |||
15 | Ty Gibbs | 21 | 20 | 23 | 3 | 9 | 15.20 | |
16 | Chase Elliott | 10 | 20 | 12 | 10 | 21 | 21 | 15.67 |
17 | Chris Buescher | 29 | 31 | 25 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 17.50 |
18 | Alex Bowman | 21 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 28 | 18.00 | |
19 | Daniel Suarez | 11 | 14 | 17 | 17 | 35 | 27 | 20.17 |
20 | Noah Gragson | 25 | 20 | 16 | 20.33 | |||
20 | Chase Briscoe | 24 | 33 | 31 | 19 | 12 | 3 | 20.33 |
22 | Austin Dillon | 23 | 25 | 19 | 20 | 26 | 17 | 21.67 |
23 | Ricky Stenhouse Jr | 17 | 26 | 9 | 18 | 31 | 32 | 22.17 |
24 | Ryan Preece | 24 | 29 | 26 | 12 | 22.75 | ||
25 | Michael McDowell | 19 | 10 | 23 | 35 | 17 | 33 | 22.83 |
26 | Todd Gilliland | 31 | 27 | 21 | 34 | 12 | 13 | 23.00 |
27 | Justin Haley | 22 | 24 | 29 | 27 | 16 | 24 | 23.67 |
28 | Austin Cindric | 20 | 16 | 27 | 32 | 22 | 26 | 23.83 |
29 | Harrison Burton | 28 | 28 | 15 | 25 | 30 | 22 | 24.67 |
30 | Carson Hocevar | 24 | 28 | 23 | 25.00 | |||
31 | Zane Smith | 34 | 17 | 25.50 | ||||
32 | Corey Lajoie | 30 | 22 | 28 | 27 | 22 | 25 | 25.67 |
33 | John H Nemechek | 28 | 29 | 28.50 | ||||
34 | Shane Van Gisbergen | 30 | 30.00 | |||||
35 | Daniel Hemric | 33 | 31 | 32.00 | ||||
36 | Kaz Grala | 32 | 34 | 33.00 |