Mid-Week Rankings: Bristol I, 2012

Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR race at Bristol. I compiled them by crunching the loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona and Talladega), the loop data for the past four races at Bristol, the loop data for the 2011 races at Las Vegas, Dover, Homestead and Darlington, and the practice and qualifying data for the 2011/2012 races at Las Vegas, Bristol, Dover, Homestead and Darlington:

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