Each week of the Sprint Cup season, ESPN The Magazine's Ryan McGee ranks the top 20 drivers in the series. Don't agree with McGee's list? Let him -- and the whole world -- know in the Conversation section at the bottom of the page. But remember, make your mama proud.

New this week
Ryan Newman, Michael Waltrip, Mark Martin.

Dropped out
Brian Vickers, Greg Biffle, Elliott Sadler.

Biggest movers
Dale Earnhardt Jr. jumped from 19th to 13th, Tony Stewart from 10th to fifth.

Biggest losers
Matt Kenseth fell from eighth to 15th, Brian Vickers from 13th to NR.

Also considered
Bobby Labonte, Jamie McMurray, Geoff (not Geoffrey) Bodine, Jim Paschal, Slick Smith.

2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Power Rankings - Week 7
	RK(LW)	DRIVER	TOP 10s	COMMENT
	1 (1)	Jeff Gordon	5	Cue your broken records, ladies and gents. Once again he didn't snap the winless drought, but he leads the league in top-5s, top-10s, laps run and average finish. Uh-oh. He's 0-for-16 at Texas.
	2 (4)	Jimmie Johnson	4	With 15 laps to go Sunday, the champ attacked with an old school dive-bomb move into Turn 3. Yeah, JJ's got a good car and crew, but that was all manly man true blue driver stuff right there.
	3 (5)	Clint Bowyer	4	Ho hum, another race, another top-5, another stealth fighter week sitting in the top three in the points standings. The Quite Quiet One finished 10th at Texas one year ago and fourth at TMS last fall.
	4 (7)	Denny Hamlin	3	Hambone came within one fender of a second grandfather clock. And don't look now, but his beloved Charlotte Bobcats are making a playoff push! No doubt he'll be courtside for Kobe on Tuesday night.
	5 (10)	Tony Stewart	4	Smoke almost pulled a Richard Petty from the '79 Daytona 500. Had the 48 and 11 slid a few feet further right during their chrome-horn throwdown, Stewart would've sneaked by for his third Martinsville win.
	6 (3)	Kurt Busch	3	History says that if you keep your nose clean and stay on the lead lap at Martinsville you'll get a top-10. Kurt did all of the above and finished 18th. Doesn't seem fair, does it?
	7 (2)	Kyle Busch	3	Dear Shrub: A little less talking about Junior and a little more consistency, please. Wins are great, but roller coasters don't win championships.
	8 (6)	Kasey Kahne	2	Coming into the weekend, the Dreamy One's career average Martinsville finish was 18.5. He finished 19th. At Texas he has averaged a 22nd-place run in nine tries, but one of those was a win back in 2006.
	9 (9)	Carl Edwards	2	For the first time all season, the 99 yo-yo didn't bounce back. His '09 finishes have been 18th, seventh, 17th, third, 15th and ... 26th. God Bless Texas, where he two-stepped to a two-race sweep in '08.
	10 (14)	Kevin Harvick	2	Happy should be anything but after the short-track ace posted consecutive non-top-10s at Bristol and Martinsville. Still, he did move up to 10th in points. Just get me to Richmond, baby ...
	11 (11)	David Reutimann	1	You know, I'm beginning to think that The Reut is actually going to make this deal stick. In three Texas starts he's had two blown engines. The third race? He finished 10th in November.
	12 (12)	Jeff Burton	2	Baby Burton's Duke Blue Devils got stomped in the Sweet 16 on Thursday and he barely made the top 15 on Sunday. Three of his past five Texas finishes have ended up sixth or better, including a win in '07.
	13 (19)	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	2	Don't look now, but over the past four races Junior has averaged a 10.7 finish and jumped from 35th to 16th in points. NASCAR's biggest star loves the Lone Star State, where he owns ten top-14 finishes in 13 starts.
	14 (15)	Juan Pablo Montoya	1	JPM owns the eighth-best average finish on '09 short tracks, sandwiched between bullring protégés Smoke and Junior, and he's seven spots better than reigning short-track king Kurt Busch. Do what?
	15 (8)	Matt Kenseth	2	You're going the wrong way! When the Killer Bee pit crew is making mistakes, you know things are bad. Remember when Matt started the year with two wins? Doesn't that seem like 10 years ago?
	16 (17)	AJ Allmendinger	2	Dinger Nation has sworn in more citizens this year than Ellis Island. Expect riots in the streets of Los Gatos if The King has to shut down the No. 44 team after the Coca-Cola 600 in May.
	17 (20)	Marcos Ambrose	1	I don't care if he talks funny and toilets swirl the wrong way where he's from. This Ocker can drive.
	18	Ryan Newman	2	Wait just a cotton-pickin' minute here. Didn't we toss you into the recycling bin a few weeks ago? Funny what two straight top-10 finishes can do for a man ... even a man with no neck.
	19	Michael Waltrip	1	All Mikey did this weekend was finish 13th, jump to 17th in points and place three cars in the top 20 as a car owner. Should he still retire at the end of the season? Without a doubt.
	20	Mark Martin	2	Turns out he hasn't forgotten how to do this after all; he finished sixth at Bristol and seventh at The 'Ville. Not bad when you consider he hadn't raced at either place since 2006. Old short wrinkly dudes rule!