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Goodbye, Newman: Jamie McMurray Leaves ‘Best Of The Rest’ Competition Behind

Oct 19, 2010, 6:37 PM UTC

It’s The Chase For Non-Chasers: Check Out The ‘Best Of The Rest Cup’ Standings

After Saturday night’s performance in Charlotte, you don’t need SB Nation’s non-Chase point standings to tell you that Jamie McMurray is the best of the rest.

Since McMurray won the race – becoming the first non-Chaser to do so during the playoffs since McMurray himself won at Talladega last season – it comes as no surprise that he reclaimed the “Best Of The Rest” Cup points lead from Ryan Newman.

Newman, who had just taken over the lead one week earlier at Fontana, got in a wreck and McMurray led a contingent of four non-Chasers in the top 10.

Joey Logano finished seventh in the race, which helped him move up to third (from seventh) in the points.

Still, McMurray has a commanding lead halfway through our non-Chase playoff.

Here are the standings this week. As a reminder, we reset the points at zero at New Hampshire for every driver not in the Chase:

	Driver	Points	Behind
1	Jamie McMurray	756	0
2	Ryan Newman	642	114
3	Joey Logano	621	135
4	Mark Martin	610	146
5	AJ Allmendinger	599	157
6	Juan Montoya	583	173
7	Paul Menard	565	191
8	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	547	209
9	David Reutimann	544	212
10	Regan Smith	532	224
11	David Ragan	504	252
12	Elliott Sadler	500	256
13	Martin Truex Jr.	499	257
14	Brad Keselowski	472	284
15	Reed Sorenson	471	285
16	Kasey Kahne	466	290
17	Scott Speed	425	331
18	Marcos Ambrose	416	340
19	Sam Hornish Jr.	405	351
20	David Gilliland	401	355
21	Travis Kvapil	349	407
22	Bobby Labonte	326	430
23	Dave Blaney	317	439
24	Casey Mears	304	452
25	Michael McDowell	225	531
26	Landon Cassill	200	556
27	Tony Raines	177	579
28	Kevin Conway	171	585
29	Andy Lally	168	588
30	Robby Gordon	154	602
31	Bill Elliott	146	610
32	JJ Yeley	145	611
33	Patrick Carpentier	144	612
34	Joe Nemechek	140	616
35	Mike Bliss	83	673
36	Jeff Green	40	716
37	Jason Leffler	34	722