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

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

• The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Watkins Glen and Talladega;
• the loop data for the past four races;
• the loop data for the past four races at Homestead;
• the loop data for the past seven races at the other tracks in the Steeps track group (i.e., Bristol, Darlington, Las Vegas and Dover);
• the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Homestead; and
• the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Steeps.

The results:

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