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

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