Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at the short-banked track in Bristol, Tenn. I compiled them by crunching the loop, practice and qualifying data for the 2011 races at Bristol, Dover and Darlington:

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