Richmond NASCAR Next Gen Driver Ratings

Rank	Driver	2026	2025	2024 #2	2024 #1	2023 #2	2023 #1	2022 #2	2022 #1	Avg. Driver Rating
1	Denny Hamlin	4	11	1	4	2	9	2	7	5.0
2	Joey Logano	2	8	5	3	9	11	1	13	6.5
3	Christopher Bell	8	12	2	8	22	4	10	4	8.8
4	Kyle Larson	10	13	11	2	21	1	6	10	9.3
5	Josh Berry	6	7	16	6		12			9.4
6	William Byron	9	10	14	10	16	2	12	3	9.5
7	Ryan Blaney	5	2	12	20	18	22	5	2	10.8
8	Chase Elliott	7	29	9	7	10		7	8	11.0
9	Brad Keselowski	19	9	23	11	3	8	13	9	11.9
10	Bubba Wallace	15	3	6	5	5	20	17	25	12.0
11	Ross Chastain	13	24	8	14	26	3	11	11	13.8
12	Tyler Reddick	14	14	7	12	4	15	31	14	13.9
13	Chris Buescher	20	28	15	9	1	23	4	12	14.0
14	Alex Bowman	12	6	27	16	20	5	20	15	15.1
15	Austin Dillon	17	1	3	26	13	25	22	17	15.5
16	Chase Briscoe	1	16	28	22	15	13	15	16	15.8
17	Ryan Preece	11	22	22	19	6	16			16.0
18	Ty Gibbs	16	19	21	17	12	10	29		17.7
19	Shane Van Gisbergen	18	18							18.0
20	Austin Cindric	3	4	20	24	28	26	18	22	18.1
21	Daniel Suarez	22	5	4	23	30	19	23	21	18.4
22	Carson Hocevar	32	15	13	31					22.8
23	Connor Zilisch	23								23.0
24	Todd Gilliland	31	32	19	15	23	21	26	27	24.3
25	Cole Custer	29	30					16	23	24.5
26	Michael McDowell	30	21	18	30	19	18	32	30	24.8
27	Erik Jones	25	26	30	18	25	30	27	19	25.0
28	Noah Gragson	24	33	25	13	24	34	25		25.4
29	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	33	27	26	28	17	32	21	29	26.6
30	Austin Hill	27								27.0
30	Zane Smith	35	17	24	32					27.0
32	AJ Allmendinger	28	23			27	31		28	27.4
33	Ty Dillon	34	25	31	33	35	33	19	24	29.3
34	John H. Nemechek	26	37	35	25					30.8
35	Riley Herbst	21	36	36						31.0
36	Cody Ware	36	38				36	35	33	35.6