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

The results:

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