Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup All Star and Sprint Showdown races at Charlotte. 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 (excluding Talladega);
- the loop data for the past four races at Charlotte;
- the loop data for the past seven races at the other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Fontana, Kansas, Atlanta, Texas, Chicago, Michigan and Kentucky);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Charlotte; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.
Note: This early list doesn’t include whoever gets into the All Star race via the fan vote. And, if Clint Bowyer does in fact win the Showdown and get into the All Star race, I tentatively have him ranked 12th.
The results for the All Star race:
- Jimmie Johnson
- Jeff Gordon
- Joey Logano
- Kevin Harvick
- Kyle Busch
- Brad Keselowski
- Kasey Kahne
- Matt Kenseth
- Carl Edwards
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Greg Biffle
- Denny Hamlin
- Ryan Newman
- Kurt Busch
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Tony Stewart
- Jamie McMurray
- Brian Vickers
- David Ragan
The results for the Showdown:
- Clint Bowyer
- Aric Almirola
- Paul Menard
- Kyle Larson
- Marcos Ambrose
- AJ Allmendinger
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Austin Dillon
- Casey Mears
- Danica Patrick
- David Gilliland
- Michael Annett
- Alex Bowman
- Landon Cassill
- Cole Whitt
- Dave Blaney
- David Stremme
- Ryan Truex
- J.J Yeley
- Josh Wise
- Blake Koch
- Reed Sorenson
- Joe Nemechek
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