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, Sonoma 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 and Kentucky;
- 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:
- Kevin Harvick
- Brad Keselowski
- Joey Logano
- Jimmie Johnson
- Jeff Gordon
- Kasey Kahne
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Matt Kenseth
- Kyle Busch
- Clint Bowyer
- Carl Edwards
- Kurt Busch
- Greg Biffle
- Ryan Newman
- Paul Menard
- Tony Stewart
- Kyle Larson
- Denny Hamlin
- Jamie McMurray
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Austin Dillon
- Aric Almirola
- Brian Vickers
- Marcos Ambrose
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- AJ Allmendinger
- Danica Patrick
- Justin Allgaier
- Trevor Bayne
- Casey Mears
- Michael Annett
- David Gilliland
- David Ragan
- Alex Kennedy
- Cole Whitt
- Landon Cassill
- Josh Wise
- Alex Bowman
- Travis Kvapil
- Dave Blaney
- Reed Sorenson
- Ryan Truex
- Joe Nemechek