{"id":146848,"date":"2025-09-16T00:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/146848\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T00:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:12:13","slug":"nascar-power-rankings-round-of-12-prepares-for-new-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/146848\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Power Rankings: Round of 12 prepares for New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/pro\/category\/nascar\/news\/?page=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Round of 12<\/a> is solidified, and we have a new batch of NASCAR Power Rankings this week ahead of Loudon, New Hampshire. Can anyone put a stop to the Toyota and, specifically, Joe Gibbs Racing domination? That remains to be seen. <\/p>\n<p>12 drivers in the Playoffs but only 10 spots in the NASCAR Power Rankings. We are going to have to make some hard decisions here, folks. <\/p>\n<p>Will we see the same drivers who have been great continue their strong runs? Was Gateway more of a Loudon preview than many give it credit? Let\u2019s get into these rankings before we fully focus on the next race ahead. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1. Chase Briscoe \u2013 Joe Gibbs Racing (+1)<\/p>\n<p>P1, P2, and P9. No other driver in the Round of 16, playoff or not, had three straight top-10s in the first three races. Chase Briscoe has been fantastic lately and that is only going to continue. <\/p>\n<p>Give the fact this is James Small\u2019s team and he was so good at New Hampshire with Martin Truex Jr., I think Briscoe is likely a threat to win again. Could he be on the fast track to the championship? <\/p>\n<p>2. Ryan Blaney \u2013 Team Penske (+1)<\/p>\n<p>This season has been a quietly great one for Ryan Blaney. The seven DNFs really muddy the waters, but he\u2019s been on top of his game since Dover. <\/p>\n<p>Only one finish worse than P8 since then, and coming off back-to-back top-five finishes, Blaney looks poised to become a two-time champ. <\/p>\n<p>3. Denny Hamlin \u2013 Joe Gibbs Racing (-2)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Round of 12 is solidified, and we have a new batch of NASCAR Power Rankings this week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-146848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}