Nascar's Most Valuable Teams 2015

1. Hendrick MotorsportsHendrick has taken home 11 of the last 20 Sprint Cup championships, and that success has helped the team secure Nascar’s most valuable sponsorship portfolio.

2. Joe Gibbs RacingIn 2015 Joe Gibbs Racing will become the third team to run four full-time cars, joining Hendrick Motorsports and Stewart-Haas Racing. Driving the fourth car is Carl Edwards, who comes over from Roush Fenway Racing.

3. Stewart-Haas RacingStewart-Haas expanded to four cars in 2014, signing both Kevin Harvick and Kurt Busch to multiyear contracts.

4. Richard Childress RacingAfter losing Kevin Harvick and his Budweiser sponsorship following the 2013 season, RCR added rookie Austin Dillon and Stewart-Haas castoff Ryan Newman; the two brought Caterpillar, Dow Chemical and Quicken Loans to the team’s sponsor portfolio.

5. Roush Fenway RacingThe team has been struggling to keep its top drivers in place, as Matt Kenseth left for Joe Gibbs Racing in 2013 and Carl Edwards has now followed him there for the 2015 season. Sponsor 3M also jumped ship, leaving Greg Biffle’s car to sponsor Jeff Gordon in his final season.

6. Team PenskeBrad Keselowski took home the team’s first ever Sprint Cup title in 2012, bringing an end to billionaire owner Roger Penske’s 40 years in the sport without a championship.

7. Michael Waltrip RacingMWR put two cars in the Chase in 2013, which ended with Clint Bowyer in second place, but last year the team took a step back. Not only did it contract to two cars, but neither of those rides managed to win a single race in 2014.

8. Chip Ganassi RacingIn 2010 Jamie McMurray returned to the team after four years with Roush Fenway and promptly won a famously pot-hole-delayed Daytona 500. He’d win two more races that season but has yet to return to that form, winning just once over the four seasons since.

9. Richard Petty MotorsportsAric Almirola’s win at last year’s Coke Zero 2014 was the team’s first trip to the top of the podium since the now-departed Marcos Ambrose won at Watkins Glen in 2012. In 2015 Ambrose will be replaced by Sam Hornish Jr., who has raced well in Nationwide but hasn’t had any real success at the top level thus far in his career.

10. Front Row MotorsportsRestaurant entrepreneur Bob Jenkins’ North Carolina-based team began making a serious push into Sprint Cup racing in 2009. The team improved every year from then until 2013, when drivers David Ragan and David Gilliland took a surprise one-two finish at the Aaron’s 499 at Talladega.