Watkins Glen NASCAR Next Gen Driver Rating Rankings

Rank	Driver	2026	2025	2024	2023	2022	Avg. Driver Rating
1	Shane Van Gisbergen	1	1	2			1.3
2	Connor Zilisch	4					4.0
3	Michael McDowell	2	15	4	7	2	6.0
4	Chris Buescher	12	6	3	10	7	7.6
5	Christopher Bell	24	3	19	5	9	12.0
5	Joey Logano	20	14	9	14	3	12.0
5	Ross Chastain	16	7	1	18	18	12.0
8	AJ Allmendinger	8	12	36	4	5	13.0
9	Tyler Reddick	5	17	28	6	10	13.2
10	Austin Cindric	9	11	12	21	15	13.6
11	Daniel Suarez	14	9	13	27	6	13.8
12	William Byron	21	5	20	1	27	14.8
13	Chase Briscoe	6	4	7	28	30	15.0
14	Ty Gibbs	3	22	21	3	29	15.6
15	Ryan Preece	15	10	17	22		16.0
16	Ryan Blaney	11	2	37	13	20	16.6
17	Chase Elliott	30	24	14	15	1	16.8
17	Kyle Busch	10	19	33	11	11	16.8
19	Carson Hocevar	27	20	6			17.7
20	Zane Smith	23	23	8			18.0
21	Kyle Larson	25	35	15	12	4	18.2
22	Austin Dillon	7	21	32	19	14	18.6
23	John H. Nemechek	13	26	22			20.3
24	Erik Jones	19	18	25	31	13	21.2
25	Bubba Wallace	28	8	30	9	32	21.4
26	Noah Gragson	26	29	10			21.7
27	Alex Bowman	29	16	18	25	21	21.8
28	Todd Gilliland	18	32	29	17	16	22.4
29	Brad Keselowski	33	13	23	20	24	22.6
30	Denny Hamlin	22	31	34	2	28	23.4
31	Cole Custer	17	36		34	8	23.8
32	Josh Berry	32	33	16			27.0
33	Ty Dillon	35	27		35	12	27.3
34	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	34	30	38	16	19	27.4
35	Riley Herbst	31	25				28.0
36	Cody Ware	36	34			37	35.7