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

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