Mid-Week Rankings: Las Vegas, 2011

Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR race at Las Vegas. I compiled them by crunching the practice and qualifying data for the fall 2010 races at Texas, Charlotte, Atlanta and Homestead, and the loop data for those same races:

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