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