Tower Of Power - The 10 Most Powerful Drivers To Date
Legends & Bandolero Driver Rankings
1) Kyle Plott : #99 Bandolero Bandit
It’s unanimous! Our voters all picked Plott #1. And you really can’t argue. You wanna talk muscle, look no further than Plott’s Shootout success this year. With five wins in the last five races, Plott is looking invincible in the Bandits division. He entered the Sizzler championship in the points lead and has extended his lead with Tuesday’s win. No matter where he starts, he gets to the front with ease.
Rating: 1
2) Ryan Glenski : #28 Bandolero Young Guns
Five wins in the first eight Shootout races makes this driver a driver to beat each week. Glenski is currently leading the Sizzler points in the Young Guns and he should be. He’s been around in the Young Guns division for a couple of years now and he’s battling a couple of first-year Gunners. Next year he needs to move up to a Legends Car or just concentrate on his Allison Legacy program or something of the sort.
Rating: 2.6
3) Kyle Hall : #69 Legends Semi-Pro
Entering the Sizzler, Hall didn’t have a win to his name this season in the Shootout. But he finally struck at the right time with a win in the first week of the Sizzler. He has certainly had the luck of the draw for heat race starting position, but his consistency is unfounded in the Semi-Pro division. He has five podium finishes in eight races, plus a 10th, 15th and 21st. Keep that up and he’ll be the Semi-Pro champ, which may be the “toughest to win in” division.
Rating: 4.6
4) Tyler Green : #20 Legends Pro
Green was the only Legends driver in the Shootout with all top-five finishes this year before the Sizzler started, which includes three victories. Trouble in the heat race Tuesday put Green in the back for the feature. After a couple incidents he was involved in, he was one of the only drivers to come from the back twice and get a solid finish (11th). Up until this week he has been the strongest of the strong in all the divisions at the Shootout. If it were not for last week, he’d be leading our Tower of Power.
Rating: 6.2
5) Davey Matthews : #41 Bandolero Bandit
Matthews has been hot this year. Currently sitting second in Bandit Sizzler points, he’s got a shot at taking the title. His only knock is that he still doesn’t have a win at LMS and is currently playing the bridesmaid role to Plott. Aside from Lowe’s, “Super Davey” has won at just about every other track in the South. We feel a victory coming in the final two weeks of the season for this young driver.
Rating: 6.3
6) Clay Hair : #29 Legends Masters
Clay Hair is a master, bottom line. He is always strong at the Shootout and everywhere else he goes. A heat race incident during round five put him out of the feature for what could might been the first time in his Shootout career. But since he has added two more wins, making a total of three so far this season as well as taking the point lead in the Masters.
Rating: 6.6
7) Casey Roderick : #147 Legends Pro
It’s been feast or famine for this kid. After his win during the first round of the Shootout, it took until the eighth round for Roderick to get back to victory lane. His muscle deteriorated a little in that span, but his workout from this past week, with a victory, certainly propelled him back up the Tower of Power. When he isn’t involved in an incident on the track he is running up front. Roderick has raw talent and shows it each week.
Rating: 6.7
8) Clint King : #07 Bandolero Young Guns
Like Matthews to Plott, poor King must be sick of seeing Ryan Glenski’s rear bumper in Young Guns. He’s got five second-place finishes, all to Glenski. King, however, does have one victory on a night Glenski finished 14th. And King is a first-year Young Gun competitor in the Young Guns, who actually moved up early (he’s 11-years-old).
Rating: 8
9) Steven Ross : #88 Legends Semi-Pro
He didn’t even make the show in Round 3, but he’s still fourth in Semi-Pro points. He hasn’t finished outside the top-five since Round 4, including back-to-back wins. And in those wins he showed some power! Or was that horsepower? Not too shabby; you miss a race and still have a shot at the title.
Rating: 8.2
10) Christopher McKinney : #13 Bandolero Outlaw
McKinney has two wins under his belt this season in the Shootout, which is impressive considering how strong the Methodist Motorsports teams (Kendall Sellers is leading the points under that banner) have been. He has had to stay up on the wheel every lap of every race to best the competition, something he did this past Tuesday. The only problem is that the Outlaws is probably the weakest of all the Summer Shootout divisions.
Rating: 9.6
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Dillon Bassett – Bandolero Bandits
Ronnie Bassett Jr. – Bandolero Young Guns
Ryan Blaney – Legends Young Lions & Semi-Pro
Trevor Farbo – Legends Young Lions
Daniel Hemric - Legends Semi-Pro
Kyle Pierce – Legends Young Lions
Kendall Sellars – Bandolero Outlaws
Josh Turner – Bandolero Outlaws
Matt Wallace – Bandolero Bandits
Dennis White – Legends Masters
Power. It’s a term used a lot in racing circles. Whether it means the horses beneath the hood or a strong move on the track, power asserts good days from bad and catapults drivers towards victory lane. When things are clicking and a driver seems unstoppable, leaving other drivers scratching their heads on how to catch them – that’s power in its rarest form.
LegendsNation.com has polled those closest to the goings-on in the Lowe’s Motor Speedway Summer Shootout and has compiled a list of the 10 most powerful drivers of the first eight weeks of the Shootout.
This is not a popularity contest. It’s not about who’s got the famous last name. It’s all about who is most on top of their game at this stage of the Shootout. Now, onto the top-10 in LegendsNation.com’s “Tower of Power.”
