Final Rankings: Chicagoland, 2011

Here are my final driver rankings for this weekend’s race at Chicagoland. I compiled them by crunching the practice and qualifying data from Chicagoland Friday and Saturday, and then melding it with the historical data:

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