Mid-Week Rankings: Dover II, 2011

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

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