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

Brad Keselowski tops my early New Hampshire II rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

• The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Talladega, Watkins Glen and Sonoma);
• the loop data for the past four races;
• the loop data for the past four races at New Hampshire;
• the loop data for the past seven races at the other tracks in the Flats track group (i.e., Martinsville, Phoenix, Indy, Pocono and Richmond);
• the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at New Hampshire; and
• the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Flats.

The results:

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