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 14 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Talladega and Sonoma);
- 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:
- Jimmie Johnson
- Kyle Busch
- Matt Kenseth
- Kasey Kahne
- Denny Hamlin
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Jeff Gordon
- Carl Edwards
- Clint Bowyer
- Brad Keselowski
- Kurt Busch
- Kevin Harvick
- Joey Logano
- Ryan Newman
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Greg Biffle
- Mark Martin
- Paul Menard
- Tony Stewart
- Juan Pablo Montoya
- Jeff Burton
- Jamie McMurray
- Marcos Ambrose
- Aric Almirola
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- A J Allmendinger
- Danica Patrick
- Bobby Labonte
- Casey Mears
- David Ragan
- David Gilliland
- David Reutimann
- Landon Cassill
- Travis Kvapil
- Dave Blaney
- David Stremme
- J.J. Yeley
- Josh Wise
- Tony Raines
- Timmy Hill
- Brian Keselowski
- Michael McDowell
- Joe Nemechek
- Mike Bliss