Early Rankings: Kansas II, 2013

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

  • The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding DaytonaTalladegaSonoma and Watkins Glen);
  • the loop data for the past four races;
  • the loop data for the past four races at Kansas;
  • the loop data for the past seven races at other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., MichiganKentuckyFontanaCharlotteTexasAtlanta and Chicagoland);
  • the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Kansas; and
  • the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.

The results:

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