Final Rankings: Charlotte I, 2011

Here are my final driver rankings for tonight’s race at Charlotte. I compiled them by crunching the practice and qualifying data from Charlotte Friday and Saturday, and then melding it with the loop, practice and qualifying data from the fall 2010 race weekend at Charlotte and this year’s race weekends at Las Vegas and Texas:

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