2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Stock Watch: Week 17

As expected, it was a wild affair on the road course at Sonoma Raceway last weekend. Now, with the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series headed back to a series of more traditional ovals for its next five races, it's time to take stock in which drivers are on the rise, basically treading water or so far on the decline that there will be little need to pay attention to them for at least the next couple of weeks. Obviously one of the drivers whose stock is on the rise is Kyle Busch, who won at Sonoma to move one big step closer to the Chase for the Sprint Cup despite missing the first 11 races of the season because of leg and ankle injuries suffered during a wreck in the season-opening Xfinity Series race at Daytona International Speedway. He still, howev...

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