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