Kevin Harvick tops my mid-week Richmond rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Richmond. 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 Richmond;
• the loop data for the past seven races at four other tracks in the Flats track group (i.e., Martinsville, Phoenix, Pocono, Indy and New Hampshire);
• the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Richmond; and
• the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Flats.

The results:

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