Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Fontana. I compiled them by crunching:
- The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona and Talladega);
- the loop data for the past four races (excluding Daytona);
- the loop data for the past four races at Fontana;
- the loop data for the past eight races at the other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Texas, Charlotte, Atlanta, Kansas, Chicago, Michigan and Kentucky);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Fontana; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.
The results:
- Kevin Harvick
- Joey Logano
- Jeff Gordon
- Jimmie Johnson
- Brad Keselowski
- Ryan Newman
- Denny Hamlin
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Matt Kenseth
- Kurt Busch
- Carl Edwards
- Kyle Larson
- Kasey Kahne
- Jamie McMurray
- Clint Bowyer
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Tony Stewart
- Paul Menard
- Greg Biffle
- A.J. Allmendinger
- Austin Dillon
- David Ragan
- Brian Vickers
- Aric Almirola
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Sam Hornish Jr.
- Casey Mears
- Danica Patrick
- Trevor Bayne
- Justin Allgaier
- Michael Annett
- Cole Whitt
- David Gilliland
- Landon Cassill
- Reed Sorenson
- Brian Scott
- Josh Wise
- Brett Moffitt
- Alex Bowman
- Jeb Burton
- Travis Kvapil
- J.J Yeley
- Mike Bliss
- Brendan Gaughan
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Mike Wallace