Mid-Week Rankings: Martinsville II, 2012

Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Martinsville. 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 Talladega);
  • the loop data for the past four races at Martinsville;
  • the loop data for the past eight races at the other tracks in the Flats track group (i.e., Richmond, Phoenix, Indy, Pocono and New Hampshire);
  • the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Martinsville; and
  • the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Flats.

The results:

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