A week after Eric had 5 of his 8 drivers finish in the top 12 of the Daytona 500, he just put 6 of his 8 in the top 10 in Sunday’s Pala Casino 400 in Fontana. While he’s not had a winning driver yet, these early season finishes are pushing him to a dominating lead out of the gates for the 2023 standings.

CJ went 1-2 on Sunday with Kyle Busch and Chase Elliott, but those were his only drivers in the top five. He only had 1 more in the top 10 (Austin Dillon, 9th). Half (4) of his 8 drivers finished 16th or worse with two 33rd or worse. Last week, he had 6-15-19-25-33-34-36-38. This week he went 1-2-9-11-16-25-33-36.

Greg had 1 driver in the top 10 on Sunday (Ross Chastain, 3rd) with 7 of his 8 being 15th or worse (3-15-19-20-26-28-29-34). Last week, Greg had 8-9-18-23-26-35-37-39.

Eric is the one who’s off to a hot start. He had an astounding 2-3-5-7-12-17-20-22 in Daytona and 4-5-6-7-8-10-30-32 in Fontana which gives him a 430 point lead over CJ and 515 point advantage over Greg heading to Vegas.

1 TEAM ERIC

2 TEAM CJ – 430 points

3 TEAM GDP – 515 points

1 TEAM ERIC – 850 points (0 wins)

J Logano… 210

A Bowman… 150

D Suarez… 130

C Bell… 120

K Harvick… 100

D Hamlin… 60

B Keselowski… 45

B Wallace… 35

2 TEAM CJ – 420 points (1 wins)

K Busch… 130 (1 win)

AJ Allmendinger… 90

M Truex Jr… 80

C Elliott… 60

A Dillon… 30

T Gibbs… 25

W Byron… 5

R Preece… 0

3 TEAM GDP – 335 points (0 wins)

R Chastain… 130

R Blaney… 95

K Larson… 35

H Burton… 35

A Cindric… 20

C Briscoe… 10

E Jones… 10

T Reddick… 0

Weekly Race Points Standings

Week 2 Fontana

1 CJ 225 (Win)

2 ERIC 205

3 GDP 95

Week 1 Daytona (Bonus Points)

1 ERIC 645

2 GDP 240

3 CJ 195

Driver Standings (Top 10)

1 J Logano… 210 (ERIC)

2 A Bowman… 150 (ERIC)

3 K Busch… 130 (CJ)

4 R Chastain… 130 (GDP)

5 D Suarez… 130 (ERIC)

6 C Bell… 120 (ERIC)

7 K Harvick… 100 (ERIC)

8 R Blaney… 95 (GDP)

9 AJ Allmendinger… 90 (CJ)

10 M Truex Jr… 80 (CJ)