Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup All Star race at Charlotte. I compiled them by crunching:
- The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona and Talladega);
- the loop data for the past four races (excluding Talladega);
- the loop data for the past four races at Charlotte;
- the loop data for the past eight races at the other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Fontana, Kansas, Atlanta, Texas, Chicago, Michigan and Kentucky);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Charlotte; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.
Note: This early list doesn’t include whoever gets into the All Star race via the Showdown or the fan vote.
The results:
- Jimmie Johnson
- Kyle Busch
- Denny Hamlin
- Matt Kenseth
- Greg Biffle
- Kasey Kahne
- Brad Keselowski
- Carl Edwards
- Clint Bowyer
- Kevin Harvick
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Mark Martin
- Jeff Gordon
- Joey Logano
- Tony Stewart
- Marcos Ambrose
- Ryan Newman
- Kurt Busch
- David Ragan