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, Talladega and Sonoma);
• the loop data for the past four races;
• the loop data for the past four races at Pocono;
• the loop data for the past eight 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 eight races at the aforementioned Flats.

The results:

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