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

The results:

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