Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Richmond. I compiled them by crunching:
- The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Watkins Glen and Sonoma;
- the loop data for the past four races;
- the loop data for the past four races at Richmond;
- the loop data for the past seven races at four other tracks in the Flats track group (i.e., Martinsville, Phoenix, Pocono, Indy and New Hampshire);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Richmond; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Flats.
The results:
- Kevin Harvick
- Jeff Gordon
- Joey Logano
- Brad Keselowski
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Clint Bowyer
- Matt Kenseth
- Jimmie Johnson
- Denny Hamlin
- Kasey Kahne
- Jamie McMurray
- Kurt Busch
- Ryan Newman
- Kyle Busch
- Carl Edwards
- Brian Vickers
- Tony Stewart
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Greg Biffle
- Kyle Larson
- Paul Menard
- Marcos Ambrose
- Aric Almirola
- AJ Allmendinger
- Austin Dillon
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Justin Allgaier
- Casey Mears
- Danica Patrick
- David Ragan
- David Gilliland
- Landon Cassill
- Michael Annett
- Alex Bowman
- Clay Rogers
- Travis Kvapil
- Josh Wise
- Cole Whitt
- Reed Sorenson
- Ryan Truex
- David Stremme
- Mike Bliss
- J.J Yeley
- Joe Nemechek