Mid-Week Rankings: Homestead, 2011

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

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