Final Rankings: Darlington, 2012

Here are my final driver rankings for tonight’s race at Darlington. I compiled them by crunching the practice and qualifying data from Darlington on Friday, and then melding it with the historical data:

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