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 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:
- Kevin Harvick
- Joey Logano
- Brad Keselowski
- Jeff Gordon
- Jimmie Johnson
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Matt Kenseth
- Denny Hamlin
- Kurt Busch
- Jamie McMurray
- Ryan Newman
- Clint Bowyer
- Kasey Kahne
- Carl Edwards
- Kyle Larson
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Paul Menard
- Tony Stewart
- Greg Biffle
- AJ Allmendinger
- Aric Almirola
- David Ragan
- Austin Dillon
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Chase Elliott
- Danica Patrick
- Casey Mears
- Justin Allgaier
- Trevor Bayne
- Sam Hornish Jr.
- Brett Moffitt
- David Gilliland
- Landon Cassill
- Alex Bowman
- Cole Whitt
- Michael Annett
- Josh Wise
- Ron Hornaday Jr.
- Chris Buescher
- TBA – #44 Car
- Jeb Burton
- J.J Yeley
- Alex Kennedy
- Brendan Gaughan
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Mike Bliss