Early Rankings: Bristol I, 2014

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

The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona and Talladega);
the loop data for the past four races (excluding Daytona);
the loop data for the past four races at Bristol;
the loop data for the past six races at the other tracks in the Steeps track group (i.e., Dover, Darlington, Las Vegas and Homestead);
the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Bristol; and
the practice and qualifying data for past six races at the aforementioned Steeps.

The results:

NASCARpredict.com