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 Daytona, Talladega, Sonoma 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., Michigan, Kentucky, Fontana, Charlotte, Texas, Atlanta 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:
- Matt Kenseth
- Jimmie Johnson
- Kyle Busch
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Kasey Kahne
- Carl Edwards
- Clint Bowyer
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Kevin Harvick
- Greg Biffle
- Kurt Busch
- Joey Logano
- Brad Keselowski
- Denny Hamlin
- Jeff Gordon
- Ryan Newman
- Mark Martin
- Aric Almirola
- Paul Menard
- Jamie McMurray
- Juan Pablo Montoya
- Brian Vickers
- Jeff Burton
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Marcos Ambrose
- A J Allmendinger
- David Ragan
- Casey Mears
- David Gilliland
- Danica Patrick
- Travis Kvapil
- Cole Whitt(i)
- David Reutimann
- Josh Wise
- Timmy Hill
- Justin Allgaier
- Dave Blaney
- Landon Cassill
- J.J. Yeley
- Michael McDowell
- Joe Nemechek
- Tony Raines
- Reed Sorenson