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

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