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:

1. Jimmie Johnson
2. Matt Kenseth
3. Kyle Busch
4. Kevin Harvick
5. Joey Logano
6. Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
7. Carl Edwards
8. Brad Keselowski
9. Jeff Gordon
10. Kasey Kahne
11. Clint Bowyer
12. Denny Hamlin
13. Martin Truex, Jr.
14. Ryan Newman
15. Greg Biffle
16. Brian Vickers
17. Kurt Busch
18. Paul Menard
19. Jamie McMurray
20. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
21. Aric Almirola
22. Tony Stewart
23. Marcos Ambrose
24. A.J. Allmendinger
25. Austin Dillon
26. Kyle Larson
27. Casey Mears
28. David Ragan
29. David Reutimann
30. Danica Patrick
31. David Gilliland
32. Michael Annett
33. Brian Scott
34. Cole Whitt
35. Dave Blaney
36. Travis Kvapil
37. Justin Allgaier
38. Landon Cassill
39. Reed Sorenson
40. Parker Kligerman
41. Alex Bowman
42. Josh Wise
43. Ryan Truex
44. Joe Nemechek