Mid-Week Rankings: Bristol II, 2013

Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Bristol. I compiled them by crunching:

  • The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Talladega, Sonoma and Watkins Glen);
  • the loop data for the past four races;
  • the loop data for the past four races at Bristol;
  • the loop data for the past seven races at the other tracks in the Steeps track group (i.e., Dover, Darlington, Las Vegas and Homestead);
  • the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Bristol; and
  • the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Steeps.

The results:

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