Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Fontana. 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 Fontana;
- the loop data for the past eight races at the other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Texas, Charlotte, Atlanta, Kansas, Chicago, Michigan and Kentucky);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Fontana; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.
The results:
- Jimmie Johnson
- Matt Kenseth
- Kyle Busch
- Kevin Harvick
- Joey Logano
- Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
- Carl Edwards
- Brad Keselowski
- Jeff Gordon
- Kasey Kahne
- Clint Bowyer
- Denny Hamlin
- Martin Truex, Jr.
- Ryan Newman
- Greg Biffle
- Brian Vickers
- Kurt Busch
- Paul Menard
- Jamie McMurray
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Aric Almirola
- Tony Stewart
- Marcos Ambrose
- A.J. Allmendinger
- Austin Dillon
- Kyle Larson
- Casey Mears
- David Ragan
- David Reutimann
- Danica Patrick
- David Gilliland
- Michael Annett
- Brian Scott
- Cole Whitt
- Dave Blaney
- Travis Kvapil
- Justin Allgaier
- Landon Cassill
- Reed Sorenson
- Parker Kligerman
- Alex Bowman
- Josh Wise
- Ryan Truex
- Joe Nemechek