Driver Rating Season Update: Good News For Montoya, Bad News For Edwards

Despite being 19th in points, Juan Pablo Montoya is having a great season when it comes to on-track performance, according to NASCAR's driver rating.

Montoya is eighth in the driver rating, which is a sign that without some late-race bad luck and parts failures, Montoya would be much higher in the points.

The same can be said for Clint Bowyer, who is 15th in points but ninth in driver rating.

Unfortunately, there's bad news if you're a Carl Edwards fan. Edwards is 10th in points but only 17th in the driver rating, indicating he's higher in points than he should actually be.

Martin Truex Jr. is in a similar situation. The Michael Waltrip Racing driver is 12th in points but only 18th in driver rating.

No. 1 in the driver rating? Well, that's no surprise. See for yourself:

Season Leaders
Through the Autism Speaks 400 at Dover

Driver Rating
Formula combining the following categories: Win, Finish, Top-15 Finish, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish. Maximum: 150 points per race. Must have raced in 75 percent of scheduled point-paying races.

Rank	Car	Driver	    Pts Pos.	DRIVER RATING
1	48	Jimmie Johnson	4	109.9
2	24	Jeff Gordon	6	107.8
3	18	Kyle Busch	2	103.4
4	31	Jeff Burton	8	101.4
5	2	Kurt Busch	9	95.1
6	29	Kevin Harvick	1	94.7
7	11	Denny Hamlin	5	93.6
8	42	Juan Montoya	19	89.2
9	33	Clint Bowyer	15	87.3
10	17	Matt Kenseth	3	87.1
11	16	Greg Biffle	7	86.3
12	5	Mark Martin	11	85.5
13	14	Tony Stewart	14	85.3
14	88	D Earnhardt Jr.	16	84.0
15	00	David Reutimann	20	83.3
16	1	Jamie McMurray	17	82.9
17	99	Carl Edwards	10	81.4
18	56	M Truex Jr.	12	81.2
19	39	Ryan Newman	13	80.0
20	9	Kasey Kahne	21	79.8
21	20	Joey Logano	18	77.1
22	83	Brian Vickers	27	74.8
23	43	AJ Allmendinger	25	74.6
24	12	Brad Keselowski	24	69.6
25	98	Paul Menard	23	67.4
26	6	David Ragan	22	66.6
27	47	Marcos Ambrose	28	65.7
28	77	Sam Hornish Jr.	30	61.5
29	82	Scott Speed	26	60.6
30	19	Elliott Sadler	29	56.5
31	78	Regan Smith	31	55.3
32	71	Bobby Labonte	33	50.5
33	34	Travis Kvapil	32	45.0
34	38	David Gilliland	35	44.9
35	7	Robby Gordon	34	44.3
36	09	Mike Bliss	37	42.2
37	13	Max Papis	38	35.2
38	87	Joe Nemechek	40	33.8
39	66	Dave Blaney	41	32.7
40	37	Kevin Conway	36	32.5
41	55	M McDowell	42	31.5