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, Sonoma and Watkins Glen);
- 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:
- Kyle Busch
- Jeff Gordon
- Jimmie Johnson
- Kasey Kahne
- Clint Bowyer
- Matt Kenseth
- Brad Keselowski
- Kevin Harvick
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Kurt Busch
- Carl Edwards
- Denny Hamlin
- Ryan Newman
- Brian Vickers
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Greg Biffle
- Joey Logano
- Jeff Burton
- Mark Martin
- Juan Pablo Montoya
- Jamie McMurray
- Paul Menard
- Aric Almirola
- Marcos Ambrose
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Bobby Labonte
- David Ragan
- Travis Kvapil
- Danica Patrick
- Casey Mears
- Dave Blaney
- David Reutimann
- David Gilliland
- Landon Cassill
- J.J. Yeley
- Timmy Hill
- Kevin Swindell (i)
- Johnny Sauter (i)
- Josh Wise(i)
- Joe Nemechek
- Tony Raines
- Michael McDowell
- Scott Riggs