New Tiers in Effect Starting this week.

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As promised the first of our tier shuffles takes place this week with the Coca Cola 600 Next Sunday. The next tier shuffle will take place September 15 right at the start of the Chase.

The tiers are setup as per the current standings at nascar.com as of Today. Here is how the new tiers will look from now till mid September.



Tier 1
48 Jimmy Johnson
99 Carl Edwards
20 Matt Kenseth
88 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
15 Clint Bowyer
5 Kasey Kahne
2 Brad Keselowski
18 Kyle Busch
43 Aric Almirola
29 Kevin Harvick
27 Paul Menard
24 Jeff Gordon


Tier 2
16 Greg Biffle
56 Martin Truex Jr
1 Jamie McMurray
17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
39 Ryan Newman
78 Kurt Busch
22 Joey Logano
31 Jeff Burton
14 Tony Stewart
42 Juan Pablo Montoya
9 Marcos Ambrose
55 Mark Martin/Brian Vickers


Tier 3
13 Casey Mears
34 David Ragan
11 Denny Hamlin
10 Danica Patrick
47 Bobby Labonte
7 Dave Blaney
38 David Gilliland
36 JJ Yeley
30 David Stremme
83 David Reutimann
33 Landon Cassill
93 Travis Kvapil
51 Regan Smith/AJ Allmendinger
95 Scott Speed
98 Michael McDowell
32 Ken Schrader/Timmy Hill
44 Scott Riggs
52 Brian Keselowski
21 Trevor Bayne
35 Josh Wise
87 Joe Nemechek
19 Mike Bliss
12 Sam Hornish Jr
81 Elliot Sadler