The Restricted class is where the sport builds its next stars, and this week the numbers did the building for us. We ran every contender through the formula, restrictor races only, and let the math sort the pretenders from the problems. Some names climbed. Some got locked out at the door. And the fight for the top spot turned into the best argument on the board.
One housekeeping note before the ranks, because fair is fair. If a driver has run fewer than nine Restricted features this season, there is simply not enough on the stat sheet to rank them here, so they sit in the waiting room until the sample catches up. And if a driver has run a good chunk more A-Class races than Restricted races, we counted them as an A-Class driver and they will show up on that board instead. This is the Restricted rankings. You have to actually be running Restricted to make it.
Here is the top ten.
- Levi Ballard
The iron man gets the top spot, and he earned every mile of it.
Thirty-nine Restricted features. Nine wins. Twenty-six top-fives. Nobody in this class has stacked a body of work anywhere close to what the Grimes, Iowa driver has put on the board in 2026, and he finally landed the signature national result to match it by winning the Restricted feature at the Non-Wing Nationals. That is the kind of win that turns a great season into a statement.
Now, full transparency, because we print our receipts. On raw points, Ballard is not the leader. We will get to that in about four seconds. But when you weigh the total package, the national schedule, the win count, the top-five machine, and a marquee win against the deepest fields in the country, Ballard is the most complete Restricted driver in America right now. The volume is the flex. The consistency is the closer. He is our number one, and we are comfortable defending it all week. - Brantlee Lamb
Here is where we hand you the debate, because Lamb is the math.
Eleven wins in nineteen features is a 58 percent win rate, the most dominant clip on the entire board, and on pure points he grades out higher than Ballard. He is also the national wins leader in this class. If you want to scream that the formula says Lamb is number one, you are not wrong, and we are not going to insult you by pretending otherwise.
So why second? Because a power ranking weighs the whole résumé, and Ballard’s national volume and signature win edge it out for us this week. But understand exactly what you are looking at: this is a one-and-two that could flip the second Lamb adds a big national win to that ridiculous win rate. He is not chasing the top spot from a distance. He is standing on its doorstep with the key already in his hand. - Mavrick Page
The quiet assassin of the Restricted class.
Twenty-five features, seven wins, twenty top-fives, an 80 percent top-five rate that is flat out absurd over that many starts. Page does not do a lot of yelling, but the KKM win gave him the marquee result his season was missing, and now the profile is airtight. Show up, run up front, cash a big one. Rinse and repeat.
The drop from Page’s total down to fourth is the single biggest cliff on this board. These top three have separated themselves, and Page is the one making sure it is a three-horse race and not a two. - Masyn Truitt
Welcome to the grind tier, where showing up is the whole personality, and Masyn Truitt does it as well as anybody.
Twenty features, four wins, twelve top-fives. He does not have the gaudy win rate of the drivers above him, but he answers the bell week after week, and the formula rewards a driver who races a real schedule over one who flashes hot for a weekend and vanishes. He edges his brother for fourth on the tiebreaker, and yes, that is going to make for an awkward car ride home. - Hudsyn Truitt
The other half of the Truitt problem, and only a hair behind.
Twenty-one features, two wins, twelve top-fives. Same story as his brother, same relentless schedule, same steady presence near the front. He loses the head-to-head tiebreak on win percentage and nothing else. When two drivers from the same family are locking down the middle of your top five, the rest of the class has a problem on its hands. - Braxton Flatt
Flatt is the highest-upside driver in this range, and the schedule is the only thing holding him back.
Thirteen features, four wins, nine top-fives, a 30 percent win rate that tops everybody in the logjam behind him. That is why he holds sixth on the tiebreaker. The talent is obvious and the ceiling is real. He just needs more nights on the board to climb out of the penalty and start pressuring the tier above him. The speed says he will. - Mason Corbin
Corbin is exactly the kind of driver this class is built to produce, and he is trending the right way.
Nineteen features, three wins, seven top-fives. He races a full slate against national competition, and the volume keeps him firmly in the top ten. The win rate needs to climb for him to make a run at the top five, but he is in the room, he is dangerous, and he is one hot stretch from making this ranking look conservative. - Ryker Jones
The Port City points leader belongs here, and it took us exactly one look at the stat sheet to know it.
Twenty-five features, two wins, twelve top-fives, and he currently leads one of the most prestigious tracks in the country in Restricted points. Jones runs weekly at Port City rather than chasing a national schedule, but week in and week out he keeps finding the top five against a stout home crowd, and that is the whole ballgame in a class that rewards consistency. The wins will come. The floor is already high. - Cade Wolfe
The most efficient driver on the entire board, and he did just enough to make it count.
Nine features, three wins, and a top-five finish in every single start, a flawless 100 percent top-five rate. Nobody else on this list has been perfect. Wolfe does not run the heavy schedule the volume guys pile up, but when he unloads he goes straight to the front and stays there. He cleared the minimum by exactly one night, and he made every one of those nights matter. Get him a few more features on the board and he is not sitting at ninth, he is chasing the top five. - Brexton Busch
Limited schedule, unlimited threat, and he cleared the bar by the width of a tire.
Ten features, two wins, seven top-fives. Busch hit the exact minimum to qualify, and his win rate wins the tiebreaker to grab the final spot. Part-time schedule, full-time problem. The name on the entry list changes the temperature of the race, and if he runs more Restricted nights down the stretch, he climbs this list in a hurry.
On the Bubble
The scary part about Restricted is who did not crack the ten.
Lathan Knott is the toughest cut on the board. Twenty-four features and twelve top-fives is one of the steadiest full-season lines in the entire class, and he is at nearly every big show finishing clean. With just one win the point total came up a hair short this week, but a driver who shows up this often and runs this well does not stay off the list for long. He is one hot stretch from being right back in the ten.
Gavyn Bolt has the best win rate of anyone on the bubble at 44 percent, four wins in nine starts. Same story as Wolfe, just short on the sample. The speed is not in question. The schedule is.
Mackcen Roush keeps logging laps against the kind of fields that harden a driver fast, fifteen features and ten top-fives already banked. He is one win stretch from crashing the list.
Mason Vincent rounds out the bubble with twelve features and eight top-fives. The consistency is there. He needs the win column to catch up to the finishes, and he is right on the edge of the ten.
Think we got it wrong? Good. The Ballard-Lamb argument alone is worth a thousand comments, so go ahead and settle it for us. Drop your Restricted top ten below and tell us who got robbed. New rankings drop every week, and every feature between now and then is a chance to move.
