Mid-Week Rankings: Texas I, 2014

Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Texas. 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 Texas;
  • the loop data for the past eight races at the other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., FontanaCharlotteAtlantaKansasChicagoMichigan and Kentucky);
  • the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Texas; 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. Brad Keselowski
  5. Carl Edwards
  6. Joey Logano
  7. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
  8. Kevin Harvick
  9. Jeff Gordon
  10. Clint Bowyer
  11. Kasey Kahne
  12. Martin Truex Jr.
  13. Kurt Busch
  14. Denny Hamlin
  15. Greg Biffle
  16. Brian Vickers
  17. Paul Menard
  18. Ryan Newman
  19. Aric Almirola
  20. Marcos Ambrose
  21. Jamie McMurray
  22. Tony Stewart
  23. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
  24. A J Allmendinger
  25. Austin Dillon
  26. Trevor Bayne
  27. Kyle Larson
  28. Casey Mears
  29. Danica Patrick
  30. David Gilliland
  31. David Ragan
  32. Michael Annett
  33. Justin Allgaier
  34. David Reutimann
  35. Travis Kvapil
  36. Cole Whitt
  37. Landon Cassill
  38. Dave Blaney
  39. Alex Bowman
  40. Josh Wise
  41. Michael McDowell
  42. Parker Kligerman
  43. Reed Sorenson
  44. Joe Nemechek
  45. Timmy Hill
  46. Ryan Truex
  47. J J Yeley