Final Rankings: Richmond I, 2012

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):

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