Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kansas. 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 Kansas;
• the loop data for the past seven races at other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Michigan, Kentucky, Fontana, Charlotte, Texas, Atlanta and Chicagoland);
• the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Kansas; and
• the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.

The results:

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