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

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