Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Dover, Del. 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 last week’s race at Darlington:

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