Mid-Week Rankings: Bristol I, 2011

Here are my mid-week driver rankings for next week’s NASCAR race at Bristol. I compiled them by crunching the practice and qualifying data for the late-season 2010 races at Bristol and Dover, and the loop data for those same races:

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