Darlington NASCAR Next Gen Speed Rankings

NOTE: Truex and Blaney weren’t scored in 2024 #2 due to their extreme early exits.

Rank	Driver	#1 2022	#2 2022	#1 2023	#2 2023	#1 2024	#2 2024	Avg. Speed Rank
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