Mid-Week Rankings: Phoenix I, 2011

Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s race at Phoenix. I compiled them by crunching the practice and qualifying data for the fall 2010 races at Phoenix, Martinsville, New Hampshire and Richmond, and the loop data for those same races.

  1. Carl Edwards
  2. Joey Logano
  3. Kevin Harvick
  4. Jeff Gordon
  5. A.J. Allmendinger
  6. Ryan Newman
  7. Denny Hamlin
  8. Jimmie Johnson
  9. Jamie McMurray
  10. Greg Biffle
  11. Kurt Busch
  12. David Reutimann
  13. Kyle Busch
  14. Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
  15. Juan Pablo Montoya
  16. Mark Martin
  17. Matt Kenseth
  18. Tony Stewart
  19. Jeff Burton
  20. Clint Bowyer
  21. David Ragan
  22. Martin Truex, Jr.
  23. Regan Smith
  24. Brad Keselowski
  25. Kasey Kahne
  26. Marcos Ambrose
  27. Paul Menard
  28. Casey Mears
  29. Bobby Labonte
  30. Scott Speed
  31. Robby Gordon
  32. Dave Blaney
  33. Travis Kvapil
  34. David Gilliland
  35. Joe Nemechek