Sonoma NASCAR Next Gen Driver Ratings

Rank	Driver	2026	2025	2024	2023	2023	Avg. Driver Rating
1	Shane Van Gisbergen	1	1				1.0
2	Michael McDowell	8	8	6	3	3	5.6
3	Chris Buescher	20	7	2	4	2	7.0
3	Connor Zilisch	7					7.0
5	Chase Elliott	16	4	3	8	5	7.2
6	Ty Gibbs	2	6	7	14		7.3
7	Kyle Larson	4	17	1	10	10	8.4
8	Ross Chastain	12	12	5	11	6	9.2
9	Christopher Bell	6	5	13	5	25	10.8
10	Ryan Blaney	5	13	8	29	7	12.4
11	AJ Allmendinger	15	16	4	7	21	12.6
12	Ryan Preece	10	10	18	17		13.8
13	Brad Keselowski	17	11	15	19	9	14.2
14	William Byron	9	3	34	13	13	14.4
15	Alex Bowman	14	15	16	15	14	14.8
16	Chase Briscoe	3	2	32	26	12	15.0
17	Joey Logano	22	14	20	9	16	16.2
18	Tyler Reddick	21	9	22	18	15	17.0
19	Daniel Suarez	34	19	14	24	1	18.4
20	Austin Cindric	13	24	23	31	8	19.8
21	Carson Hocevar	11	32	17			20.0
22	Zane Smith	19	18	21	32		22.5
23	Denny Hamlin	18	31	38	6	20	22.6
24	Austin Dillon	33	23	28	22	11	23.4
25	Cole Custer	24	30			17	23.7
26	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	26	27	24	12	30	23.8
27	Todd Gilliland	29	28	11	28	27	24.6
28	Bubba Wallace	25	22	25	21	36	25.8
29	Austin Hill	28					28.0
29	Ty Dillon	31	21	33	27	28	28.0
31	Riley Herbst	32	26				29.0
32	Erik Jones	27	35	19	34	31	29.2
33	Cody Ware	36	37	12		34	29.8
34	Josh Berry	30	25	36			30.3
35	John H. Nemechek	23	33	37			31.0
36	Noah Gragson	35	34	30			33.0