Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Homestead. I compiled them by crunching:
- The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Watkins Glen and Talladega;
- the loop data for the past four races;
- the loop data for the past four races at Homestead;
- the loop data for the past seven races at the other tracks in the Steeps track group (i.e., Bristol, Darlington, Las Vegas and Dover);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Homestead; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Steeps.
The results:
- Jimmie Johnson
- Kyle Busch
- Matt Kenseth
- Kasey Kahne
- Martin Truex, Jr.
- Carl Edwards
- Jeff Gordon
- Kevin Harvick
- Brad Keselowski
- Clint Bowyer
- Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
- Greg Biffle
- Joey Logano
- Denny Hamlin
- Kurt Busch
- Ryan Newman
- Jamie McMurray
- Aric Almirola
- Mark Martin
- Jeff Burton
- Paul Menard
- Juan Pablo Montoya
- Marcos Ambrose
- A.J. Allmendinger
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Trevor Bayne
- Casey Mears
- Kyle Larson
- Elliott Sadler
- David Ragan
- Danica Patrick
- David Reutimann
- David Gilliland
- Travis Kvapil
- Landon Cassill
- Dave Blaney
- Michael McDowell
- Josh Wise
- Joe Nemechek
- Parker Kligerman
- J.J. Yeley
- Ken Schrader
- Tony Raines