Mid-Week Rankings: Dover II, 2013

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:

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