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., Fontana, Charlotte, Atlanta, Kansas, Chicago, Michigan 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:
- Jimmie Johnson
- Matt Kenseth
- Kyle Busch
- Brad Keselowski
- Carl Edwards
- Joey Logano
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Kevin Harvick
- Jeff Gordon
- Clint Bowyer
- Kasey Kahne
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Kurt Busch
- Denny Hamlin
- Greg Biffle
- Brian Vickers
- Paul Menard
- Ryan Newman
- Aric Almirola
- Marcos Ambrose
- Jamie McMurray
- Tony Stewart
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- A J Allmendinger
- Austin Dillon
- Trevor Bayne
- Kyle Larson
- Casey Mears
- Danica Patrick
- David Gilliland
- David Ragan
- Michael Annett
- Justin Allgaier
- David Reutimann
- Travis Kvapil
- Cole Whitt
- Landon Cassill
- Dave Blaney
- Alex Bowman
- Josh Wise
- Michael McDowell
- Parker Kligerman
- Reed Sorenson
- Joe Nemechek
- Timmy Hill
- Ryan Truex
- J J Yeley