Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Pocono. 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 Pocono;
• the loop data for the past seven races at the other tracks in the Flats track group (i.e., Martinsville, Phoenix, Indy, Richmond and New Hampshire);
• the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Pocono; and
• the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Flats.

The results:

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