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

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