Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kansas. 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 (excluding Daytona and Talladega);
- the loop data for the past four races at Kansas;
- the loop data for the past eight races at the other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Fontana, Charlotte, Atlanta, Texas, Chicago, Michigan and Kentucky);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Kansas; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.
The results:
- Jimmie Johnson
- Matt Kenseth
- Greg Biffle
- Tony Stewart
- Jeff Gordon
- Kyle Busch
- Carl Edwards
- Denny Hamlin
- Brad Keselowski
- Kevin Harvick
- Kasey Kahne
- Mark Martin
- Ryan Newman
- Clint Bowyer
- Martin Truex, Jr.
- Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
- Paul Menard
- A.J. Allmendinger
- Jamie McMurray
- Jeff Burton
- Marcos Ambrose
- Juan Pablo Montoya
- Joey Logano
- Regan Smith
- Aric Almirola
- Bobby Labonte
- Casey Mears
- Sam Hornish Jr.
- Kurt Busch
- Landon Cassill
- David Ragan
- David Reutimann
- David Gilliland
- Travis Kvapil
- Dave Blaney
- David Stremme
- Tim Andrews
- J.J. Yeley
- Michael McDowell
- Mike Bliss
- Joe Nemechek
- Scott Riggs
- Josh Wise
- Reed Sorenson (i)
- Stacy Compton
- Tony Raines