Mid-Week Rankings: New Hampshire I, 2013

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 and Sonoma);
  • the loop data for the past four races (excluding Daytona and Sonoma);
  • the loop data for the past four races at New Hampshire;
  • the loop data for the past seven races at the 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:

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