Round 7 Power Rankings: Teams

Here are the power rankings following round seven at Texas. Number next to team represents change in rankings based off of last rankings:

Biggest Mover: Dale Coyne Racing (+4)
Biggest Loser: Rahal Letterman Racing (-3)

1. Team Penske 0
Despite a Power penalty and a pit incident for Helio, all three Penske cars finished in the top-8. That is a huge success for the team.

2. Chip Ganassi Racing 0
Three out of the four of their drivers had a legit chance at winning, and all three came short. But their cars were blisteringly quick.

3. Schmidt Hamilton Racing 0
Oh, don't worry about Simon Pagenaud sneaking his way into P6 without anyone knowing, just whatever. He has been the Cinderella story of the season.

4. Panther Dreyer and Reinbold Racing  0
I'm looking forward to this F1-like inner team battle between JR Hildebrand and Oriol Servia, so far it is shaping up to be a good one!

5. Dale Coyne Racing +4
The little team that could, well done Justin Wilson on P1, and James Jakes who finished P10! Great day for the team.

6. Bryan Herta Autosport 0
After a great qualifying session, I was a little let down by their race pace. But like Tags said, "if having a bad day is P9, then we are doing something right."

7. Andretti Autosport 0
This has been the story for AA all year: Hinch does well, RHR either gets a top-10 or a DNF, and Marco does nothing.

8. Rahal Letterman Racing -3
Sato needs to start finishing races.

9. KV Racing -1
TK get's blocked hard by Power, Rubens doesn't even get off the grid, and Viso's engine dies on him. This team is just not having a good year.

10. Ed Carpenter Racing 0
They and their driver took the piss out of all of us when Ed said it was a boring race. Well kiss my ass Ed, maybe you an I can get together some time for an exciting "watching paint dry" session.

11. Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing 0
Average isn't good enough for this very above average team.

12. AJ Foyt Enterprises 0
Mike Conway qualified strong and practiced strong, until they had a 10 spot grid penalty for an engine change and then a mechanical issue that hampered his progress in the race.

13. Dragon Racing 0
I guess Legge did a good job of finishing.....? Really isn't something to high five each other about.

14. HVM Racing 0
A solid ZERO laps in the race! This whole one car deal for Lotus isn't working as well as they hoped.

Let me know what you think.

-Matthew Hickey