Final Rankings: Daytona I, 2012

Here are my final driver rankings for today’s race at Daytona. I compiled them by crunching the prelim data from Daytona during Speedweeks, and then melding it with the historical data:

  1. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
  2. Jeff Gordon
  3. Carl Edwards
  4. Tony Stewart
  5. Paul Menard
  6. Ryan Newman
  7. Jimmie Johnson
  8. Jeff Burton
  9. Matt Kenseth
  10. Greg Biffle
  11. Brad Keselowski
  12. Trevor Bayne
  13. Martin Truex Jr.
  14. Kasey Kahne
  15. Juan Pablo Montoya
  16. AJ Allmendinger
  17. David Ragan
  18. Marcos Ambrose
  19. Clint Bowyer
  20. Joey Logano
  21. Mark Martin
  22. Aric Almirola
  23. Casey Mears
  24. Regan Smith
  25. Kevin Harvick
  26. Kyle Busch
  27. Kurt Busch
  28. Danica Patrick(i)
  29. Elliott Sadler(i)
  30. Jamie McMurray
  31. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.(i)
  32. Dave Blaney
  33. Denny Hamlin
  34. Robby Gordon
  35. Terry Labonte [PC1]
  36. Joe Nemechek(i)
  37. Tony Raines(i)
  38. David Reutimann
  39. David Stremme
  40. Bobby Labonte
  41. Michael McDowell
  42. David Gilliland
  43. Landon Cassill