Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Charlotte. I compiled them by crunching the loop, practice and qualifying data for the 2011 races at Charlotte, Las Vegas, Texas and Atlanta:
- Carl Edwards
- Matt Kenseth
- Denny Hamlin
- Kurt Busch
- Greg Biffle
- Kyle Busch
- Jimmie Johnson
- A.J. Allmendinger
- David Ragan
- Marcos Ambrose
- Brad Keselowski
- Paul Menard
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Tony Stewart
- Jeff Burton
- David Reutimann
- Clint Bowyer
- Jeff Gordon
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Ryan Newman
- Kevin Harvick
- Juan Pablo Montoya
- Kasey Kahne
- Joey Logano
- Mark Martin
- Brian Vickers
- Jamie McMurray
- Regan Smith
- Bobby Labonte
- Casey Mears
- David Gilliland
- Landon Cassill
- Dave Blaney
- Michael McDowell
- Mike Bliss
- J.J. Yeley
- Joe Nemechek
- Robby Gordon
- Travis Kvapil
- David Stremme
- Mike Skinner
- Trevor Bayne
- Andy Lally
- Tony Raines
- Scott Speed(i)
- Geoff Bodine