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New this week
Kevin Harvick.

Dropped out
Joey Logano.

Biggest movers
Denny Hamlin and Jeff Burton jump four spots each.

Biggest loser
Juan Pablo Montoya drops six spots from fifth to 11th.

Also considered
Bill Elliott, Jamie McMurray, Brian Vickers, Cale Yarborough, Billy Myers.

2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Power Rankings - Week 38
	RK(LW)	DRIVER	TOP 10s	COMMENT
	1 (1)	Jimmie Johnson	24	Anyone who thinks JJ doesn't have phenomenal car control didn't see his postrace burnout between the stage and the crowd. A lesser man would have put a couple dozen folks in the hospital.
	2 (2)	Mark Martin	21	Martin's 2009 season was ageless, classy and inspiring. But he's still the Greatest Driver Never to Win a Championship.
	3 (3)	Kurt Busch	21	I stood up and started screaming at lame-duck crew chief Pat Tryson for taking two tires during the last pit stop. Then Busch finished fourth, so I shut up and sat down. Still not a crew chief.
	4 (8)	Denny Hamlin	20	It took Hambone 135 starts to earn his first four Cup wins. The last four came in just 16 tries. His Sunday postwin grin was only slightly smaller than his Saturday smile after he spun Keselowski.
	5 (4)	Jeff Gordon	25	Since 2001, Gordon's garage nickname has been Four Time, for his four Cups. So now that Jimmie also has four, has Jeff become Four Time Sr.?
	6 (7)	Kyle Busch	13	The newly crowned Nationwide Series champ has said he will not defend his crown in 2010. That's good news for the NNS garage but bad news for the Cup paddock. A focused Shrub could be a scary Shrub.
	7 (6)	Greg Biffle	16	The Biff had never run a full Cup schedule without winning a single race. Now he has. A painfully generic day at his best track sums up his season pretty nicely, doesn't it?
	8 (12)	Jeff Burton	10	No one has more momentum heading into the offseason than Richard Childress Racing. And the leader of that charge has been Baby Burton.
	9 (10)	Clint Bowyer	16	And he's being followed closely by this guy.
	10 (9)	Tony Stewart	23	Congratulations, Smoke. Your little dirt-track match race flashback with Montoya cost you a chance at a win, a top-five points position and about $170,000 in season-ending prize money.
	11 (5)	Juan Pablo Montoya	18	Congratulations, Juan. Your little go-kart indoor tire course flashback with Stewart cost you a chance at a win, a top-six points position and about $325,000 in season-ending prize money.
	12 (14)	Carl Edwards	14	So, remind me, where did we all pick Cousin Carl to finish the season? Oh yeah.
	13 (11)	Ryan Newman	15	I honestly don't remember seeing Newman during the race even once. That happened a lot this year. But two poles and a seventh-place finish in points? I think Rocket Man will take it.
	14 (13)	Matt Kenseth	12	It'll be weird not seeing the DeWalt car out there next year, isn't it? Then again, we didn't see it a whole helluva lot after February, did we?
	15 (17)	AJ Allmendinger	6	Biggest surprise of the year. Two of The Dinger's six top-10s came in the last three races. Maybe it's the retro Richard Petty paint scheme.
	16 (16)	David Reutimann	10	OK, maybe he was the biggest surprise of the year. And spare me on the "his win was rain-shortened" complaining. He has one more race trophy than I do.
	17 (15)	Kasey Kahne	14	Dear Kasey, it's not too late to fulfill your potential as a title contender. But you'll have to go somewhere else to do it.
	18	Kevin Harvick	9	In 2010, this team will either explode like a contender with multiple wins and a run to the Chase or it will explode like a bucket of nitroglycerin thanks to the tension between Happy and Richard Childress.
	19 (20)	Martin Truex Jr.	6	A moment of silence for the death of the last remaining tie to what used to be known as Dale Earnhardt Inc.
	20 (18)	Marcos Ambrose	7	A day that started out great -- he led Laps 10-13 -- ended terribly. But if anyone living in the Northern Hemisphere told you he would finish 18th in points, they'd likely had too much Foster's.