Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at New Hampshire. I compiled them by crunching:
- The loop data for the past 14 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 past four races at New Hampshire;
- the loop data for the past eight races at the other tracks in the Flats track group (i.e., Martinsville, Phoenix, Indy, Pocono and Richmond);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at New Hampshire; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Flats.
The results:
- Jimmie Johnson
- Jeff Gordon
- Clint Bowyer
- Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
- Kasey Kahne
- Kevin Harvick
- Denny Hamlin
- Ryan Newman
- Greg Biffle
- Tony Stewart
- Kyle Busch
- Brad Keselowski
- Jeff Burton
- Carl Edwards
- Martin Truex, Jr.
- Matt Kenseth
- Juan Pablo Montoya
- Paul Menard
- Joey Logano
- Jamie McMurray
- Marcos Ambrose
- Brian Vickers
- Sam Hornish Jr(i)
- Kurt Busch
- Regan Smith
- Aric Almirola
- Bobby Labonte
- David Reutimann
- Casey Mears
- David Ragan
- Landon Cassill
- Kelly Bires
- Dave Blaney
- David Gilliland
- Joe Nemechek
- Travis Kvapil
- J.J. Yeley
- David Stremme
- Michael McDowell
- Mike Bliss
- Josh Wise
- Scott Riggs
- Ken Schrader
- Stephen Leicht