Mid-Week Rankings: Phoenix II, 2011

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

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