Mid-Week Rankings: Martinsville II, 2011

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

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