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

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