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