Mid-Week Rankings: Texas II, 2011

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:

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