Mid-Week Rankings: Charlotte II, 2013

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

  • The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Talladega, Watkins Glen and Sonoma);
  • the loop data for the past four races;
  • the loop data for the past four races at Charlotte;
  • the loop data for the past eight races at the other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Fontana, Kansas, Atlanta, Texas, Chicago, Michigan and Kentucky);
  • the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Charlotte; and
  • the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.

The results:

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