Early Rankings: Homestead, 2013

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:

NASCARpredict.com