Mid-Week Rankings: Dover I, 2012

Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Dover. 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 Dover;
  • the loop data for the past seven races at the other tracks in the Steeps track group (i.e., Bristol, Darlington, Homestead, Las Vegas);
  • the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Dover; and
  • the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Steeps.

The results:

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