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

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