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

The results:

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