Nashville NASCAR Next Gen Speed Rankings

Rank	Driver	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026	Avg. Speed Rank
1	Denny Hamlin	2	4	2	1	6	3.0
2	Christopher Bell	7	7	1	6	1	4.4
3	Ryan Blaney	8	15	5	3	4	7.0
4	Chase Elliott	4	5	9	10	10	7.6
5	Ross Chastain	5	2	8	10	16	8.2
6	Kyle Larson	10	7	4	19	3	8.6
7	Tyler Reddick	21	13	3	7	2	9.2
8	William Byron	17	3	12	2	19	10.6
9	Ty Gibbs		12	7	21	9	12.3
10	Bubba Wallace	11	20	13	8	12	12.8
11	Joey Logano	13	19	14	4	18	13.6
12	Carson Hocevar			18	10	15	14.3
13	Erik Jones	20	10	34	5	8	15.4
14	Shane van Gisbergen				25	7	16.0
15	Chris Buescher	16	16	10	15	24	16.2
16	AJ Allmendinger	15	6	24	26	12	16.6
17	Brad Keselowski	18	17	11	23	21	18.0
18	Michael McDowell	14	30	29	14	12	19.8
19	Corey Heim			21	22	17	20.0
20	Daniel Suarez	12	17	23	29	20	20.2
21	Austin Cindric	19	28	17	9	32	21.0
21	Chase Briscoe	30	32	25	13	5	21.0
21	Zane Smith			35	17	11	21.0
24	Josh Berry			20	20	27	22.3
25	Alex Bowman	24	14	19	36	22	23.0
26	Austin Dillon	25	20	22	27	25	23.8
27	Riley Herbst				27	23	25.0
28	Noah Gragson		29	15	29	28	25.3
29	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	22	22	36	31	26	27.4
30	Ryan Preece		27	28	18	37	27.5
31	Cole Custer	28			24	31	27.7
32	Ty Dillon	32	31		33	29	31.3
33	Todd Gilliland	31	36	32	32	30	32.2
34	Connor Zilisch					33	33.0
35	John H Nemechek			37	34	34	35.0
36	Cody Ware	33			37	36	35.3