Jeff Gordon tops my early Martinsville II rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

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

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

The results:

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