Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Michigan. 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 Michigan;
• the loop data for the past seven races at other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Fontana, Kansas, Texas, Charlotte);
• the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Michigan; and
• the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.

The results:

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