Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Dover. 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 Dover;
• the loop data for the past six races at the other tracks in the Steeps track group (i.e., Bristol, Darlington, Las Vegas and Homestead);
• the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Dover; and
• the practice and qualifying data for past six races at the aforementioned Steeps.

The results:

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