Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Dover. I compiled them by crunching:
- The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Sonoma and Watkins Glen);
- the loop data for the past four races;
- the loop data for the past four races at Dover;
- the loop data for the past seven races at the other tracks in the Steeps track group (i.e., Bristol, Darlington, Las Vegas and Homestead);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Dover; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Steeps.
The results:
- Kyle Busch
- Matt Kenseth
- Jimmie Johnson
- Kasey Kahne
- Jeff Gordon
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Brad Keselowski
- Carl Edwards
- Clint Bowyer
- Kurt Busch
- Kevin Harvick
- Denny Hamlin
- Joey Logano
- Greg Biffle
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Brian Vickers
- Ryan Newman
- Mark Martin
- Jamie McMurray
- Paul Menard
- Aric Almirola
- Juan Pablo Montoya
- A J Allmendinger
- Jeff Burton
- Marcos Ambrose
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Casey Mears
- David Ragan
- David Gilliland
- David Reutimann
- J.J. Yeley
- Landon Cassill
- Travis Kvapil
- Danica Patrick
- Josh Wise
- Timmy Hill
- Dave Blaney
- Michael McDowell
- Ryan Truex
- Reed Sorenson
- Cole Whitt
- Joe Nemechek
- Tony Raines