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
Kevin Harvick.

Dropped out
Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Biggest mover
Mark Martin moves up five spots from ninth to fourth.

Biggest loser
Marcos Ambrose falls five spots from 13th to 18th.

Also considered
Casey Mears, A.J. Allmendinger, Geoff Brabham, Brett Bodine, Mike Chase.

2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Power Rankings - Week 22
	RK(LW)	DRIVER	TOP 10s	COMMENT
	1 (1)	Tony Stewart	16	Evidence No. 235 that Tony Stewart is a changed man: After finishing third at Indy, he was all smiles and joking about Mark Martin's age. Five years ago, he would've been throwing chairs like Bobby Knight.
	2 (3)	Jimmie Johnson	14	Uh-oh. Is it just me, or is The Champ starting to peak at the right time? Good for him. Bad for everyone else.
	3 (2)	Jeff Gordon	14	He didn't have the best car or the worst car. But when it was time to make the money, he'd massaged that sucker from the 20s into the top 10. He's a four-time Pocono winner, the last coming in 2007.
	4 (9)	Mark Martin	10	No offense to Johnson, but no one was pulling for him with one lap to go. Martin is the active leader in Pocono top-5s and top-10s. He has a 10.8 average finish in 45 starts. How has he never won there?
	5 (6)	Ryan Newman	9	Stewart and Gordon overshadowed fellow Hoosier Newman by stealing all the "native son" headlines all week. He earned his 14th-place finish just as quietly, which seems to be how he likes it.
	6 (7)	Carl Edwards	9	I barely noticed that Carl was even at the Brickyard, yet he managed to move up one spot in points to fifth.
	7 (4)	Denny Hamlin	8	Hambone was on the way to his fifth top-5 in six weeks before he was derailed by a bum tranny. Which, now that I read it aloud, sounds like something from the back page of a seedy newspaper.
	8 (5)	Kurt Busch	10	Apparently bad Busch luck is no longer limited to just little brothers.
	9 (10)	Kasey Kahne	8	Doing all those Indy tire tests for Goodyear paid off with a seventh-place finish. He won at Pocono in June 2008 -- and looked good doing it.
	10 (8)	Juan Pablo Montoya	9	No, it's not fair that a guy dominates a race as he does yet falls two spots in the Power Rankings. But was anything about Juan's weekend fair?
	11 (11)	Matt Kenseth	8	I lost my sponsor and all my team owner got me was this lousy top-10.
	12 (15)	Greg Biffle	9	This dude gives me headaches. One week he looks like A.J. Foyt, and the next he looks like Larry Foyt.
	13 (14)	Brian Vickers	9	Remember what I just said about Biffle? Control-C that and Control-V it right into this space.
	14 (17)	David Reutimann	6	The Reut turned around a nightmare Indianapolis résumé to earn a top-10. He won't need such miracles at Pocono, where he finished third in June.
	15 (12)	Kyle Busch	6	Blow the dust off your old copy of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." album and play Track 9.
	16 (16)	Clint Bowyer	7	If Richard Childress were Princess Leia and Clint Bowyer were Obi-Wan Kenobi, Childress would be saying, "Help me, Clint Bowyer, you're my only hope."
	17 (19)	Joey Logano	4	I still say he'll win two Cup races before the end of the year. And yes, I'm still serious.
	18 (13)	Marcos Ambrose	5	Thunder from Down Under has started only one race at Pocono. He finished sixth there just two months ago.
	19 (18)	Jeff Burton	6	If Richard Childress were Han Solo and Jeff Burton were Chewbacca, Childress would be saying, "I have a bad feeling about this."
	20	Kevin Harvick	3	Happy always has done his best work when he's pissed. And what happens in the race after starting a feud with his boss? He scores his first top-10 since March 8. Holy cow.