Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Martinsville. I compiled them by crunching the loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona and Talladega), the loop data for just the past four Sprint Cup races, the loop data for the past four races at Martinsville, the loop data for the past eight races at the other tracks in the Flats track group (i.e., New Hampshire, Richmond, Phoenix, Pocono and Indy), the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Flats, and the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Martinsville:
- Jimmie Johnson
- Jeff Gordon
- Kevin Harvick
- Denny Hamlin
- Tony Stewart
- Ryan Newman
- Kyle Busch
- Greg Biffle
- Clint Bowyer
- Jeff Burton
- Carl Edwards
- Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
- Brad Keselowski
- Juan Pablo Montoya
- A.J. Allmendinger
- Matt Kenseth
- Jamie McMurray
- Paul Menard
- Martin Truex, Jr.
- Kasey Kahne
- Joey Logano
- Brian Vickers
- Marcos Ambrose
- Aric Almirola
- Regan Smith
- Bobby Labonte
- Casey Mears
- Kurt Busch
- Landon Cassill
- David Reutimann
- David Ragan
- Dave Blaney
- David Gilliland
- Travis Kvapil
- David Stremme
- Michael McDowell
- Mike Bliss
- J.J. Yeley
- Joe Nemechek
- Ken Schrader
- Hermie Sadler
- Josh Wise
- Scott Riggs
- Timmy Hill
- Reed Sorenson(i)