Here are my final driver rankings for tonight’s race at Richmond. I compiled them by crunching the qualifying data from Richmond on Friday, and then melding it with the historical data (once again the practice data is screwy, so I discarded it):
- Jeff Gordon
- Kevin Harvick
- Carl Edwards
- Kyle Busch
- Denny Hamlin
- Ryan Newman
- Jimmie Johnson
- Kasey Kahne
- Mark Martin
- Clint Bowyer
- Brad Keselowski
- Martin Truex, Jr.
- Juan Pablo Montoya
- Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
- A.J. Allmendinger
- Greg Biffle
- Jeff Burton
- Matt Kenseth
- Joey Logano
- Marcos Ambrose
- Tony Stewart
- Regan Smith
- Paul Menard
- Jamie McMurray
- Aric Almirola
- Bobby Labonte
- Kurt Busch
- Casey Mears
- Dave Blaney
- Landon Cassill
- David Reutimann
- David Ragan
- Michael McDowell
- Joe Nemechek
- David Gilliland
- David Stremme
- Scott Speed
- Travis Kvapil
- Mike Bliss
- Josh Wise
- Reed Sorenson(i)
- Stephen Leicht
- Cole Whitt