Each week of the Sprint Cup season, ESPN The Magazine's Ryan McGee ranks the top 20 drivers in the series.

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New this week
Brad Keselowski.

Dropped out
A.J. Allmendinger.

Biggest movers
Ryan Newman, Kasey Kahne, Matt Kenseth, Kyle Busch and Clint Bowyer all move up three spots each.

Biggest loser
Denny Hamlin falls seven spots from eighth to 15th.

Also considered
Martin Truex Jr., Jeff Burton, Nelson Stacy, David Pearson.

2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Power Rankings - Week 33
	RK(LW)	DRIVER	TOP 10s	COMMENT
	1 (1)	Jimmie Johnson	20	Is it too late to add Johnson to the inaugural NASCAR Hall of Fame class? More bad news for those trying to catch him: He's won six of the past seven races run at Martinsville. Yikes.
	2 (4)	Jeff Gordon	22	Anyone thinking Gordon doesn't have the same cajones he did 10 years ago has to watch the final restart Saturday night. He held onto that outside lane like a starving dog on a beef jerky truck.
	3 (3)	Mark Martin	18	The night certainly could have been worse, but come December, when we go back to try to figure out where "Wrinkles" lost the Cup, this will be the night.
	4 (5)	Tony Stewart	21	Under the pre-Chase points system, "Smoke" would be 117 ahead of Jimmie Johnson, and I'd be writing about the 14 team being on the verge of a historic collapse. And Stewart would be chasing me with a tire iron.
	5 (6)	Kurt Busch	18	How brutal is this year's Chase pace? Over the past five races, the Blue Deuce has posted an average finish of eighth and lost 147 points to the leader. Doesn't seem fair, does it?
	6 (2)	Juan Pablo Montoya	16	Watching JPM continue to ride around Lowe's with that flat tire while his team pleaded with him to stop Saturday was even more painful than watching Wolf Blitzer's interview with the "Balloon Boy" family.
	7 (10)	Ryan Newman	14	A car painted up to look like Optimus Prime from "Transformers" was undone by a loose lug nut on pit road. I blame the Decepticons.
	8 (11)	Kasey Kahne	13	It would have been cool to see Richard Petty standing in Victory Lane the same week he was named to the NASCAR Hall of Fame. But after his Fontana disaster, "Ol' Blue Eyes" was plenty happy with third.
	9 (9)	Greg Biffle	14	On Saturday afternoon, The Biff dismissed the altercation with Joey Logano's dad as "no big deal; he didn't really say anything." Really? Then why didn't you say that, I dunno, a week earlier?
	10 (13)	Matt Kenseth	11	If we counted only the races run in the months of February and October, Kenseth would be The Man.
	11 (14)	Kyle Busch	11	I don't know what they gave "Shrub" to help him recover from last week's flu, but I'll take a dozen.
	12 (15)	Clint Bowyer	14	I walked by Bowyer's pits Saturday night and was really disturbed at how bad car owner Richard Childress looked. Then I realized it was Boo Berry.
	13 (7)	Carl Edwards	13	Best line of the weekend came after Edwards blew an engine to drop out of a race in which he'd never run better than 23rd: "That was a mercy killing."
	14 (15)	David Reutimann	9	D-Root gets this week's Man Up Award. I saw him in the drivers' meeting two hours prior to the race and he looked like Rene Russo toward the end of "Outbreak," and then he went out and finished 15th. Nice.
	15 (8)	Denny Hamlin	16	Dude needs a hug.
	16 (12)	Brian Vickers	13	OK, let's make it a group hug.
	17 (19)	Casey Mears	4	Update from last week: Over his past five races, the "Last of the Mears' Gang" has averaged a 12th-place finish and 126 points per race. I know, right?
	18 (17)	Marcos Ambrose	7	"Mr. Thunder From Down Under" walked by me in the garage Saturday, and I overheard this conversation: "Who is that?" "That's Marcus Ambierce. He's from Austria."
	19 (20)	Kevin Harvick	6	The only thing colder than sitting on the metal bleachers of Lowe's Motor Speedway on Saturday night is the increasingly icy breeze that's blowing back and forth between "Happy" and RC.
	20	Brad Keselowski	3	The next time we see BK in a Cup car, he'll be driving for Penske. And we'll know very quickly whether he misses being in Hendrick stuff.