Early Rankings: Kentucky, 2012

Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kentucky. I compiled them by crunching:

The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Talladega and Sonoma);
the loop data for the past four races (excluding Daytona, Talladega and Sonoma);
the loop data for the 2011 race at Kentucky;
the loop data for the past eight races at the other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Fontana, Kansas, Atlanta, Texas, Chicago, Charlotte and Michigan);
the practice and qualifying data for the 2011 race at Kentucky; and
the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.

The results:

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