Mid-Week Rankings: Martinsville I, 2011

Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR race at Martinsville, Va. I compiled them by crunching the loop, practice and qualifying data for the October 2010 race at Martinsville and the February 2011 race at Phoenix:

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