Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race 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;
• the loop data for the past four races at Charlotte;
• the loop data for the past eight 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 eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.

Plus, I tweaked the results obtained with the above with impressions gleaned from the All Star and Showdown practices and races. The results:

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