Darlington NASCAR Next Gen Speed Rankings

Rank	Driver	#1 2022	#2 2022	#1 2023	#2 2023	#1 2024	#2 2024	2025 #1	2025 #2	2026 #1	Avg. Speed Rank
1	Tyler Reddick	5	7	13	2	1	7	3	2	2	4.7
2	William Byron	3	5	2	6	5	4	1	14	7	5.2
3	Denny Hamlin	11	2	17	3	10	1	4	6	8	6.9
4	Ryan Blaney	13	9	9	9	6		2	13	4	8.1
5	Kyle Larson	5	18	5	1	7	2	26	8	12	9.3
6	Ross Chastain	2	11	1	15	15	19	9	5	21	10.9
7	Bubba Wallace	14	12	9	11	9	8	13	4	29	12.1
8	Christopher Bell	7	4	6	25	19	6	17	14	20	13.1
9	Joey Logano	1	5	14	22	8	14	6	25	26	13.4
10	Brad Keselowski	27	19	8	8	2	19	20	24	1	14.2
10	Erik Jones	9	8	22	7	25	14	25	3	15	14.2
12	Chris Buescher	29	31	25	5	4	11	4	17	3	14.3
13	Josh Berry			30		11	4	10		17	14.4
14	Ty Gibbs		21	20	23	3	9	21	12	12	15.1
15	Chase Elliott	10	20	12	10	21	21	15	17	11	15.2
16	AJ Allmendinger			23	13			17	7	18	15.6
17	Chase Briscoe	24	33	31	19	12	3	28	1	10	17.9
18	Connor Zilisch									18	18
19	Ryan Preece			24	29	26	12	12	16	8	18.1
20	Austin Cindric	20	16	27	32	22	26	7	11	5	18.4
21	Alex Bowman	21	13		14	14	28	16	34		20
22	Daniel Suarez	11	14	17	17	35	27	23	33	5	20.2
23	Zane Smith					34	17	7	20	24	20.4
24	Noah Gragson			25		20	16	19	21	23	20.7
25	Austin Dillon	23	25	19	20	26	17	23	23	30	22.9
26	Todd Gilliland	31	27	21	34	12	13	14	28	28	23.1
27	Michael McDowell	19	10	23	35	17	33	29	27	17	23.3
28	Carson Hocevar				24	28	23	35	19	12	23.5
29	John H Nemechek					28	29	33	9	26	25
30	Cole Custer	26	14					32	22	32	25.2
31	Ty Dillon	12	22	27	29			22	32	34	25.4
32	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	17	26	9	18	31	32	34	35	33	26.1
33	Shane Van Gisbergen						30	29	30	16	26.3
34	Riley Herbst							34	29	22	28.3
35	Cody Ware	34	34					37	36	35	35.2