Final Rankings: Sonoma, 2012

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

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