Mid-Week Rankings: Michigan II, 2014

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., FontanaKansasTexasCharlotte 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:

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