Final Rankings: Darlington, 2014

Here are my final driver rankings for tonight’s race at Darlington. I compiled them by crunching the practice and qualifying data from Darlington on Friday, and then melding it with the historical data:

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