Mid-Week Rankings: Atlanta, 2014

Jeff Gordon is the clear early favorite at Atlanta this week. (photo courtesy nascar)

Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Atlanta. I compiled them by crunching:

The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Talladega, Sonoma and Watkins Glen);
the loop data for the past four races (excluding Watkins Glen);
the loop data for the past four races at Atlanta;
the loop data for the past seven races at other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Michigan, Kentucky, Fontana, Charlotte, Texas, and Kansas);
the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Atlanta; and
the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.

The results:

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