Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Pocono. 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 Pocono;
- the loop data for the past seven races at the other tracks in the Flats track group (i.e., Martinsville, Phoenix, New Hampshire, Richmond and Indy);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Pocono; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Flats.
The results:
- Jimmie Johnson
- Denny Hamlin
- Jeff Gordon
- Kevin Harvick
- Kasey Kahne
- Kyle Busch
- Tony Stewart
- Carl Edwards
- Ryan Newman
- Clint Bowyer
- Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
- Greg Biffle
- Brad Keselowski
- Jeff Burton
- Mark Martin
- Martin Truex, Jr.
- Juan Pablo Montoya
- Matt Kenseth
- A.J. Allmendinger
- Paul Menard
- Joey Logano
- Marcos Ambrose
- Jamie McMurray
- Regan Smith
- Aric Almirola
- Bobby Labonte
- Landon Cassill
- Casey Mears
- David Reutimann
- David Ragan
- Dave Blaney
- David Gilliland
- J.J. Yeley
- Joe Nemechek
- Travis Kvapil
- David Stremme
- Michael McDowell
- Mike Bliss
- Reed Sorenson
- Scott Riggs
- Josh Wise
- Tony Raines
- Stephen Leicht
- Stacy Compton