Talladega NASCAR Next Gen Speed Rankings

Rank	Driver	#1 2022	#2 2022	#1 2023	#2 2023	#1 2024	#2 2024	#1 2025	#2 2025	2026 #1	Avg. Speed Rank
1	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	4	3	2	3	12	11	7	2	7	5.7
2	Ross Chastain	22	13	5	1	6	12	11	15	2	9.7
3	Connor Zilisch									10	10.0
4	Erik Jones	15	2	6	26	34	2	4	3	11	11.4
5	Noah Gragson	34	6	19		3	16	4	5	16	12.9
6	Alex Bowman	5		9	28	11	5	10	25	13	13.3
7	Bubba Wallace	11	8	30	7	15	1	8	16	34	14.4
8	William Byron	19	11	1	28	19	6	21	11	17	14.8
9	Chase Briscoe	1	14	13	9	24	17	2	26	30	15.1
10	Todd Gilliland	38	5	2	4	1	36	12	21	19	15.3
11	Ryan Preece			18	10	2	18	13	33	14	15.4
12	Shane Van Gisbergen					32	7	22	13	4	15.6
13	Carson Hoecevar				36	8	18	15	10	8	15.8
14	Chris Buescher	3	24	23	5	4	8	36	20	24	16.3
14	Christopher Bell	8	29	32	6	29	20	4	8	11	16.3
16	Chase Elliott	15	17	13	24	24	13	14	8	20	16.4
17	Cole Custer	27	12					18	23	3	16.6
18	Kyle Larson	21	21	6	34	18	4	1	22	23	16.7
19	Ty Gibbs		1	27	19	10	13	31	13	31	18.1
20	AJ Allmendinger			12	20		21	32	4	25	19.0
21	Tyler Reddick	31	16	36	12	29	9	3	12	27	19.4
22	Daniel Suarez	23	21	6	25	19	38	17	19	9	19.7
23	Michael McDowell	29	26	38	2	5	32	20	18	15	20.6
23	Ty Dillon	23	8	24	7			9	36	37	20.6
25	Kyle Busch	7	19	19	17	31	24	38	32	4	21.2
26	Joey Logano	25	4	34	30	28	21	24	7	26	22.1
26	Ryan Blaney	2	8	26	20	17	21	39	30	36	22.1
28	Austin Cindric	18	6	17	16	27	28	28	39	31	23.3
29	Riley Herbst			15	26			16	28	33	23.6
30	Brad Keselowski	20	27	22	32	6	40	19	26	29	24.6
31	John H Nemechek					38	26	33	6	21	24.8
32	Cody Ware	36	36			13	35	30	24	1	25.0
33	Josh Berry					26	28	27	29	18	25.6
34	Zane Smith			35		35	15	26	16	28	25.8
35	Austin Dillon	17	30	25	31	22	34	35	37	6	26.3
36	Denny Hamlin	28	20	29	22	36	27	28	31	38	28.8