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