Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kentucky. I compiled them by crunching:

• The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Talladega and Sonoma;
• the loop data for the past three races at Kentucky;
• the loop data for the past eight races at other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Fontana, Kansas, Texas, Charlotte and Michigan;
• the practice and qualifying data for the past three races at Kentucky; and
• the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.

The results:

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