Eric continued his domination of the season with getting another 1-2-3 finish on Sunday in Atlanta. In fact, he ended up with four of his eight drivers in the top six which countered having three drivers being 27th or worse.

CJ had two cars in the top 10 but was overall 9-10-16-17-19-20-28-32. Greg had three cars in the top 10 (5-7-8) but also 11-13-24-31-35 too.

That’s pushed Eric’s lead to 580 points over CJ and 645 over Greg.

CJ had the top two finishers in Fontana as well and the winner in Vegas and Phoenix too. However, this team was reeling behind each week as well. His finishes from Fontana were 1-2-9-11-16-25-33-36. For Vegas, it was 1-7-14-18-22-23-24-27. In Phoenix, it was 1-8-12-16-17-19-20-28.

Greg had a total of 5 top 10 finishes prior to Phoenix but nearly got that alone there two weeks ago in going 2-3-4-7-21-24-25-35. In Vegas, Greg had 2-6-12-13-15-19-26-28. In Fontana, he had just 1 driver in the top 10 (Ross Chastain, 3rd) with 7 of his 8 being 15th or worse (3-15-19-20-26-28-29-34). For Daytona, 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 gave him a 430 point lead over CJ and 515 point advantage over Greg heading to Vegas.

For the Pennzoil 400, Eric had three more cars in the top 5 (3-4-5) to go along with 5 of his 8 in the top 10 (9-10). He also had 11th and 17th with Logano’s last place result being the only driver outside the top 20.

In Phoenix, he went 5-6-9-11-14-18-22-23.

2023 FANTASY STANDINGS

 

1 TEAM ERIC 

2 TEAM CJ – 580 points

3 TEAM GDP – 645 points 

1 TEAM ERIC – 1,480 points (1 win)

J Logano… 330 (1 win)

A Bowman… 240

C Bell… 230

K Harvick… 170

D Suarez… 170

B Keselowski… 125

D Hamlin… 115

B Wallace… 100

 

2 TEAM CJ – 900 points (3 wins)

K Busch… 210 (1 win)

W Byron… 205 (2 wins)

M Truex Jr… 130

AJ Allmendinger… 120

T Gibbs… 65

IR-C Elliott… 60

A Dillon… 55

R Preece… 30

R Stenhouse Jr… 25

 

DRIVER CHANGES

3/5 (After Race 2) Placed C Elliott on IR; picked-up R Stenhouse Jr. for Las Vegas.  

3 TEAM GDP – 835 points (0 wins)

R Blaney… 205

R Chastain… 175

K Larson… 135

T Reddick… 100

A Cindric… 75

E Jones… 55

C Briscoe… 50

C Buescher… 0

Waived/Traded Drivers… (40 points)

 

DRIVER CHANGES

3/13 (After Race 4) Waived H Burton (40 points) and picked-up C Buescher.  

 

Weekly Race Points Standings

 

Week 5 Atlanta

1 ERIC 260

2 GDP 145

3 CJ 105

 

Week 4 Phoenix

1 CJ 195 (Win)

2 GDP 185

3 ERIC 160

 

Week 3 Las Vegas

1 ERIC 210

2 CJ 180 (Win)

3 GDP 170

 

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… 330 (ERIC)

2 A Bowman… 240 (ERIC)

3 C Bell… 230 (ERIC)

4 K Busch… 210 (CJ)

5 R Blaney… 205 (GDP)

5 W Byron… 205 (CJ)

7 R Chastain… 175 (GDP)

8 K Harvick… 170 (ERIC)

8 D Suarez… 170 (ERIC)

10 K Larson… 135 (GDP)