Here are my final driver rankings for today’s race at Talladega. I compiled them by crunching the qualifying data from Talladega on Saturday, and then melding it with the historical data (the practice data ain’t worth diddly, so I discarded it):

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