Each week, NASCAR unveils its prerace driver rating, which has historically been fairly accurate in predicting which drivers will perform well at a given track.
Texas: Pre-Race Driver Rating
Things might change with the spoiler at Texas, but our advice is to use this to help with your fantasy picks. Good luck!
Samsung Mobile 500For point-paying races in current and past four years, at this track.Texas Motor SpeedwaySunday, April 18, 2010Driver RatingFormula combining the following categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish. Maximum: 150 points per race.Number of Races: 10
Rank Car Driver Avg Finish High AVG DRIVER RATING1 14 Tony Stewart 11.0 149.7 106.12 17 Matt Kenseth 6.5 133.8 105.03 99 Carl Edwards 16.0 146.7 99.74 18 Kyle Busch 15.9 135.8 98.65 48 Jimmie Johnson 11.7 130.6 96.16 11 Denny Hamlin 10.6 123.1 95.67 16 Greg Biffle 19.2 149.2 95.48 88 Earnhardt Jr. 16.2 106.1 94.49 2 Kurt Busch 15.1 134.8 93.810 24 Jeff Gordon 13.0 136.3 91.411 5 Mark Martin 12.0 123.4 88.912 33 Clint Bowyer 12.8 119.5 88.513 1 M Truex Jr. 14.4 117.8 88.014 31 Jeff Burton 13.0 126.8 84.315 29 Kevin Harvick 12.6 107.6 82.816 00 David Reutimann 24.2 108.6 81.317 9 Kasey Kahne 25.0 131.4 80.418 42 Juan Montoya 23.2 91.2 78.719 26 Jamie McMurray 16.5 124.0 78.020 07 Casey Mears 16.1 112.1 77.721 47 Marcos Ambrose 25.7 99.7 73.922 6 David Ragan 25.7 88.7 68.323 39 Ryan Newman 21.1 108.4 67.224 83 Brian Vickers 23.6 92.5 65.625 02 David Gilliland 26.0 77.7 63.726 43 Reed Sorenson 30.4 90.7 62.127 98 Paul Menard 23.9 84.7 60.928 12 David Stremme 22.0 90.4 60.429 19 Elliott Sadler 25.1 87.1 59.630 66 Scott Riggs 24.5 91.1 59.631 71 Bobby Labonte 26.4 92.4 57.032 44 AJ Allmendinger 27.3 85.1 56.833 55 Michael Waltrip 27.6 108.8 55.334 77 Sam Hornish Jr. 28.0 75.0 53.735 7 Robby Gordon 31.6 75.5 52.136 82 Scott Speed 25.5 62.0 51.037 09 Mike Bliss 29.0 82.9 50.038 20 Joey Logano 29.7 66.6 49.339 66 Dave Blaney 27.8 61.1 48.640 12 Brad Keselowski 25.7 57.9 48.341 28 Travis Kvapil 26.5 64.9 46.242 87 Joe Nemechek 29.4 68.8 45.843 70 Johnny Sauter 30.0 59.6 41.844 21 Bill Elliott 32.6 55.8 41.345 34 John Andretti 30.0 47.9 40.946 36 Boris Said 27.0 40.5 40.547 4 Mike Wallace 30.5 48.7 39.048 78 Regan Smith 33.0 41.4 38.049 36 M McDowell 37.0 33.5 32.450 8 Aric Almirola 33.0 31.9 31.951 13 Max Papis 35.0 27.5 27.552 74 Derrike Cope 41.0 25.8 25.8
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