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
Jeff Burton, Joey Logano.

Dropped out
Marcos Ambrose, Brad Keselowski.

Biggest mover
Denny Hamlin climbs seven spots, from 15th to eighth.

Biggest losers
Kasey Kahne falls seven spots, from eighth to 15th, and Greg Biffle falls from ninth to 16th.

Also considered
Bobby Labonte, Jamie McMurray, Timothy Peters, Speedy Thompson.

2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Power Rankings - Week 34
	RK(LW)	DRIVER	TOP 10s	COMMENT
	1 (1)	Jimmie Johnson	21	What's wrong with you, dude? Second? C'mon, man, you're better than that.
	2 (2)	Jeff Gordon	23	Still getting e-mails claiming that Gordon doesn't have the killer instinct he once did. Sure, y'all. Just ask Juan Pablo Montoya about that. They looked like Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots at Martinsville.
	3 (6)	Juan Pablo Montoya	17	If the 42 could just have Charlotte back, it'd be contending for the Cup.
	4 (3)	Mark Martin	19	Another top-10, another chunk of points lost to Jimmie Johnson. I'd almost rather he fall to third by the end of the season than be subjected to finishing runner-up again.
	5 (4)	Tony Stewart	22	For the record, if the old points system were still in place, he'd be 85 points ahead of Jimmie Johnson. But don't bring that up with Stewart. He'll choke you with the wires from that Burger King lie-detector machine.
	6 (7)	Ryan Newman	15	Won the pole, led 23 laps, finished seventh. Still has no neck.
	7 (5)	Kurt Busch	18	How can he be so good at Bristol and so generic at Martinsville?
	8 (15)	Denny Hamlin	17	Best line of the weekend: "Jimmie is Goliath. Everyone else is a bunch of Davids. I think everyone is happy to see someone finally beat the 48." Judging from the e-mails I've been getting, he's right.
	9 (11)	Kyle Busch	12	Don't feel bad that you can't win the Cup, Shrub. World of Outlaws racer Joey Saldana has won 19 races this year, and he's not going to win that championship, either.
	10 (10)	Matt Kenseth	11	From the "We Know You Don't Really Care But What Else Are We Going To Write About" department: Kenseth and Kyle Busch have a helluva battle going for 13th in points.
	11 (12)	Clint Bowyer	14	And Bowyer isn't too far behind them.
	12 (13)	Carl Edwards	13	Even if he won every race remaining this season, he'd have less than half of his win total from 2008.
	13 (14)	David Reutimann	9	He had a much better car than his 16th-place finish. At least what was left of the car when the race finally ended. It looked like one of those junkers that monster trucks use as ramps.
	14 (16)	Brian Vickers	13	The Sheriff's 11th-place run Sunday matched his best finish in the six Chase races. In the nine races leading up to the Chase, he finished worse than 11th only once, a 12th-place run at Bristol.
	15 (8)	Kasey Kahne	13	Much is being made of Junior's bad day at Martinsville. But Kasey Kahne's afternoon of tortuous misery made Earnhardt's race seem like a trip to Chuck E. Cheese with 1,000 free tokens.
	16 (9)	Greg Biffle	14	The Biff is on the verge of his first winless Cup season. Don't expect the drought to end at Talladega. In 13 career starts, he's scored one top-10 and an average finish of 24th with five DNFs. Woof.
	17 (17)	Casey Mears	4	Over the past six weeks, Mears has averaged a solid 13th-place finish and 123 points per race. His reward? His crew chief is being taken away and moved to Jeff Burton's car.
	18 (19)	Kevin Harvick	7	Thursday night's RCR 40th anniversary celebration dinner was attended by hundreds of current and former employees. Happy was not one of them.
	19	Jeff Burton	6	I chatted with Baby Burton on Sunday morning while standing atop the world-famous Martinsville infield hot dog stand. He is serious about leading RCR out of its 2009 doldrums. Very serious.
	20	Joey Logano	6	I really thought A.J. Allmendinger was going to go after Sliced Bread after their wreck Sunday. But maybe he had heard Logano was going to be on Monday night's "WWE Raw" and thought better of it.