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 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Talladega, Sonoma and Watkins Glen);
- the loop data for the past four races (excluding Watkins Glen);
- the loop data for the past four races at New Hampshire;
- the loop data for the past eight races at 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:
- Denny Hamlin
- Jimmie Johnson
- Jeff Gordon
- Kasey Kahne
- Clint Bowyer
- Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
- Brad Keselowski
- Kevin Harvick
- Kyle Busch
- Greg Biffle
- Ryan Newman
- Martin Truex, Jr.
- Brian Vickers
- Carl Edwards
- Jeff Burton
- Paul Menard
- Matt Kenseth
- Joey Logano
- Sam Hornish, Jr.
- Juan Pablo Montoya
- Marcos Ambrose
- Jamie McMurray
- Tony Stewart
- Regan Smith
- Aric Almirola
- Kurt Busch
- Bobby Labonte
- Landon Cassill
- Casey Mears
- David Reutimann
- Travis Kvapil
- David Ragan
- David Gilliland
- David Stremme
- J.J. Yeley
- Stephen Leicht
- Scott Speed
- Jason Leffler (i)
- Tony Raines
- Reed Sorenson
- Michael McDowell
- Josh Wise
- Joe Nemechek
- Scott Riggs
- Jeff Green (i)
- Mike Olsen
- Kelly Bires
Mears is a start’n park this weekend…
No way on Stewart at P23… I have him ranked 5th!
Yeah, doesn’t seem right to have Smoke down that far. I guess he’s looked bad in the loop/practcie/quali data on the flats this year. He’s one of those guys who tends to outperform his stats, though.