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

The results:

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