Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at the big-flat track at Kansas. I compiled them by crunching the loop, practice and qualifying data for the fall 2010 races at Fontana and Kansas, and this spring’s race at Fontana:

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