Early Rankings: New Hampshire II, 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, 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:

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