Early Rankings: Richmond I, 2012

Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Richmond. 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 Richmond;
the loop data for the past eight races at the other tracks in the Flats track group (i.e., Martinsville, Phoenix, New Hampshire, Pocono and Indy);
the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Richmond; and
the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Flats.

The results:

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