Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at the short-flat track in New Hampshire. I compiled them by crunching the loop, practice and qualifying data for the fall 2010 race at New Hampshire, and the spring 2011 races at Martinsville, Richmond and Phoenix:

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