Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Indianapolis. 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 past four races at Indy;
- the loop data for the past eight races at the other tracks in the Flats track group (i.e., Martinsville, Phoenix, New Hampshire, Pocono and Richmond);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Indy; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Flats.
The results:
- Jimmie Johnson
- Denny Hamlin
- Jeff Gordon
- Kasey Kahne
- Greg Biffle
- Mark Martin
- Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
- Kevin Harvick
- Carl Edwards
- Kyle Busch
- Clint Bowyer
- Ryan Newman
- Tony Stewart
- Matt Kenseth
- Juan Pablo Montoya
- Martin Truex, Jr.
- Brad Keselowski
- Jamie McMurray
- Jeff Burton
- Paul Menard
- Marcos Ambrose
- Trevor Bayne
- Joey Logano
- Regan Smith
- Sam Hornish, Jr.
- Aric Almirola
- Bobby Labonte
- Kurt Busch
- Casey Mears
- David Ragan
- David Reutimann
- Landon Cassill
- David Gilliland
- Dave Blaney
- David Stremme
- Travis Kvapil
- Reed Sorenson
- Joe Nemechek
- Michael McDowell
- Scott Riggs
- Scott Speed
- Mike Bliss
- Mike Skinner
- Josh Wise
- Ken Schrader
- Stephen Leicht
- Driver of #49 TBA