Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Darlington, S.C. I compiled them by crunching the loop, practice and qualifying data for the fall 2010 race at Dover, the March 2011 race at Bristol and the May 2011 race at Darlington:

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