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:
- Jimmie Johnson
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Joey Logano
- Jeff Gordon
- Matt Kenseth
- Kevin Harvick
- Brad Keselowski
- Kasey Kahne
- Kyle Busch
- Carl Edwards
- Ryan Newman
- Denny Hamlin
- Kurt Busch
- Clint Bowyer
- Jamie McMurray
- Greg Biffle
- Tony Stewart
- Paul Menard
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Brian Vickers
- Marcos Ambrose
- Aric Almirola
- AJ Allmendinger
- Kyle Larson
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Austin Dillon
- Casey Mears
- Justin Allgaier
- Danica Patrick
- David Gilliland
- David Ragan
- Landon Cassill
- Michael Annett
- Travis Kvapil
- Alex Bowman
- Josh Wise
- J.J Yeley
- Cole Whitt
- Alex Kennedy
- Dave Blaney
- Joe Nemechek
- Ryan Truex
- Reed Sorenson
After seeing practices, believe 18 5 20 will miss top. Suprises showing speed are 41 14 31.
55 is my real sleeper.
Ray, my final numbers largely agree with you. Should be an interesting day.