Power Ranking the Drivers After 1st Month of 2016 Season

The first five races of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season are in the books. Six-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, whose No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, featuring a Superman paint scheme last Sunday at Auto Club Speedway, is the only driver with multiple wins. Johnson also passed Hall of Famer and seven-time champion Dale Earnhardt in career wins with his 77th of all time in the Auto Club 400, which Fox Sports television analyst Darrell Waltrip recently attempted to put into perspective. "He hasn't been in the sport all that long, so the amount of time it took him to break Dale Earnhardt's record is remarkable," Waltrip told Fox Sports of Johnson, who took 512 races to score career win No. 77 (Earnhardt earned his 76 over 676 s...

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