Mid-Week Rankings: Texas II, 2012

Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Texas. 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 Texas;
  • the loop data for the past eight races at the other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Fontana, Charlotte, Atlanta, Kansas, Chicago, Michigan and Kentucky);
  • the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Texas; and
  • the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.

The results:

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