Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR race at Fontana, Calif. I compiled them by crunching the practice and qualifying data for the Aug. 2010 race at Michigan and the fall 2010 races at Fontana and Kansas, and the loop data for those same races:

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