Mid-Week Rankings: Martinsville I, 2012

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:

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