Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at the big-flat track in Kentucky. I compiled them by crunching the loop, practice and qualifying data for the 2010 race at Kansas, and the same data for the 2011 races at Kansas and Fontana:

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