By David G. Firestone
Thanksgiving has passed, holiday music and decorations are abound, and the 2021 Paint Scheme Leaderboard is here! Here’s how the process works. I will rank all of the Cup Series teams by their paint scheme GPA. I will rank them by manufacturer, then all of them in one final list. There is no committee this year, as Zoe chose to skip the proceedings. Here is the Chevy list:
1-Beard Motorsports #62 Chevy Camaro
Rank Last Year: 1 of 23
Number of Schemes: 1
GPA: 4.00
2-Hendrick Motorsports #24 Chevy Camaro
Rank Last Year: 5 of 23
Number of Schemes: 8
GPA: 3.79
3-Hendrick Motorsports #9 Chevy Camaro
Rank Last Year: 21 of 23
Number of Schemes: 7
GPA: 3.61
4-Kaulig Racing #16 Chevy Camaro
Rank Last Year: of 23
Number of Schemes: 5
GPA: 3.60
5-Rick Ware Racing #51 Chevy Camaro/Ford Mustang
Rank Last Year: of 23
Number of Schemes: 4
GPA: 3.50
6-Richard Childress Racing #3 Chevy Camaro
Rank Last Year: 13 of 23
Number of Schemes: 18
GPA: 3.31
7-Richard Petty Motorsports #43 Chevy Camaro
Rank Last Year: 11 of 23
Number of Schemes: 13
GPA: 3.31
8-Hendrick Motorsports #5 Chevy Camaro
Rank Last Year: N/A
Number of Schemes: 9
GPA: 3.29
9-Rick Ware Racing #52 Chevy Camaro/Ford Mustang
Rank Last Year: 3 of 23
Number of Schemes: 24
GPA: 3.28
10-Hendrick Motorsports #48 Chevy Camaro
Rank Last Year: 3 of 23
Number of Schemes: 5
GPA: 2.80
11-Rick Ware Racing #15 Chevy Camaro/Ford Mustang
Rank Last Year: N/A
Number of Schemes: 26
GPA: 2.73
12-Rick Ware Racing #53 Chevy Camaro/Ford Mustang
Rank Last Year: 10 of 23
Number of Schemes: 25
GPA: 2.71
13-JTG Daugherty Racing #37 Chevy Camaro
Rank Last Year: 20 of 23
Number of Schemes: 27
GPA: 2.69
14-Spire Motorsports #77 Chevy Camaro
Rank Last Year: 14 of 23
Number of Schemes: 21
GPA: 2.68
15-StarCom Racing #00 Chevy Camaro
Rank Last Year: 18 of 23
Number of Schemes: 1
GPA: 2.68
16-Chip Ganassi Racing #42 Chevy Camaro
Rank Last Year: 15 of 23
Number of Schemes: 1
GPA: 2.67
17-Chip Ganassi Racing #1 Chevy Camaro
Rank Last Year: 8 of 23
Number of Schemes: 6
GPA: 2.28
18-Spire Motorsports #7 Chevy Camaro
Rank Last Year: 12 of 23
Number of Schemes: 1
GPA: 2.18
19-Richard Childress Racing #8 Chevy Camaro
Rank Last Year: 22 of 23
Number of Schemes: 24
GPA: 2.14
20-JTG Daugherty Racing #47 Chevy Camaro
Rank Last Year: 7 of 23
Number of Schemes: 25
GPA: 1.77
21-Trackhouse Racing #99 Chevy Camaro
Rank Last Year: N/A
Number of Schemes: 10
GPA: 1.26
Next week, the Ford Leaderboard.