NASCAR Road Course Total Speed Rankings Since 2025 – Heading To Watkins Glen

Rank	Driver	COTA 2025	Mexico 2025	Chicago 2025	Sonoma 2025	Watkins Glen 2025	Roval 2025	COTA 2026	Avg. Speed Rank
1	Shane Van Gisbergen	2	1	1	1	1	1	3	1.4
2	Christopher Bell	5	2	20	6	2	3	9	6.7
3	William Byron	3	11		3	4	14	6	6.8
4	Chase Briscoe	8	5	6	2	4	17	7	7.0
5	Michael McDowell	13	3	4	15	13	5	8	8.7
5	Ty Gibbs	27	3	3	7	8	8	5	8.7
7	Ryan Blaney	16	10	10	12	3	11	2	9.1
8	AJ Allmendinger	9	14	5	16	13	4	10	10.1
9	Tyler Reddick	4	31	2	8	18	9	1	10.4
10	Kyle Larson	21	6	12	13	20	2	4	11.1
11	Ryan Preece	13	13	7	8	12	12	16	11.6
12	Connor Zilisch	7						17	12.0
13	Chase Elliott	10	6	18	4	28	7	12	12.1
13	Ross Chastain	11	19	8	11	6	18	12	12.1
15	Chris Buescher	11	19	28	5	9	6	11	12.7
16	Kyle Busch	1	8	9	19	11	30	12	12.9
17	Bubba Wallace	19	16	17	18	15	20	18	17.6
18	Brad Keselowski	17	27		10	6	19	27	17.7
19	Joey Logano	25	30	11	17	17	13	15	18.3
20	Alex Bowman	17	9	21	13	19	20	31	18.6
20	Daniel Suarez	6	18	34	31	10	10	21	18.6
22	Cole Custer	24	12	29	20	28	16	32	23.0
22	Ty Dillon	33	15	32	21	23	14	23	23.0
24	Austin Cindric	31	19	25	26	16	33	22	24.6
25	Riley Herbst	22	17	27	26	26	28	28	24.9
26	Denny Hamlin	25		14	33	35	25	19	25.2
27	Carson Hocevar	15	26		34	20	35	25	25.8
28	John H. Nemechek	30	24	13	28	24	32	30	25.9
29	Austin Dillon	23	24		24	24	34	29	26.3
30	Josh Berry	32	22	15	29	27	27	33	26.4
31	Zane Smith	36	33	19	21	32	26	20	26.7
32	Todd Gilliland	29	29		25	34	23	26	27.7
33	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	34	32	24	23	30	24	35	28.9
34	Erik Jones	34	23	25	32	22	30	37	29.0
35	Noah Gragson	28	35	22	35	33	29	34	30.9
36	Cody Ware	37	36	30	37	36	36	36	35.4