Bristol NASCAR Next Gen Speed Rankings

Rank	Driver	2022	2023	2024 #1	2024 #2	2025 #1	2025 #2	2026 #1	2026 #2	Avg. Speed Ranking
1	Denny Hamlin	6	2	3	4	2	18	5	8	6.0
1	Kyle Larson	3	4	5	1	1	27	1	6	6.0
3	Ty Gibbs	20	2	1	16	6	1	6	2	6.8
4	Christopher Bell	1	1	6	2	7	9	16	34	9.5
5	Brad Keselowski	5	8	3	22	17	8	13	7	10.4
6	Bubba Wallace	7	11	20	7	18	10	7	4	10.5
7	Chris Buescher	2	6	10	20	31	3	11	3	10.8
8	Ryan Blaney	35	21	8	8	4	5	1	5	10.9
9	Ryan Preece		12	12	9	23	4	12	14	12.3
10	Carson Hocevar		10	32	18	3	11	3	12	12.7
11	Chase Briscoe	11	28	18	5	5	5	3	28	12.9
12	Chase Elliott	7	15	16	3	13	22	20	13	13.6
13	Josh Berry			9	32	13	2	16	10	13.7
14	William Byron	9	7	22	13	9	17	29	8	14.3
15	Alex Bowman	15	13	11	6	12	13	35	17	15.3
16	Ross Chastain	10	24	21	10	11	19	18	15	16.0
17	Joey Logano	19	30	19	23	25	14	9	1	17.5
18	Tyler Reddick	24	14	28	19	16	15	8	20	18.0
19	Michael McDowell	16	4	13	15	33	26	27	25	19.9
20	Zane Smith			26	21	24	5	18	26	20.0
21	AJ Allmendinger	14	34	30	25	10	23	14	22	21.5
22	Austin Cindric	27	35	36	17	21	16	10	11	21.6
23	Riley Herbst					27	24	22	24	24.3
24	Austin Dillon	26	23	31	26	15	37	23	19	25.0
25	Ricky Stenhouse Jr	21	19	29	31	20	24	25	35	25.5
26	Erik Jones	28	20	17	30	25	27	26	33	25.8
26	Noah Gragson			35	14	28	33	23	22	25.8
28	Todd Gilliland	32	22	23	29	30	35	15	27	26.6
29	Daniel Suarez	25	29	24	32	35	31	20	18	26.8
30	Cole Custer	12				36	38	30	21	27.4
31	Austin Hill						29		32	30.5
32	Shane van Gisbergen					37	21	36	29	30.8
33	Connor Zilisch							31		31.0
34	Ty Dillon	30	26			29	34	34	36	31.5
35	Corey Heim						32			32.0
36	Cody Ware	31				38	36	33	31	33.8