Final Rankings: Talladega I, 2015

Kasey Kahne tops my final Talladega rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

Kasey Kahne tops my final Talladega rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

Here are my final driver rankings for today’s race at Talladega. I compiled them by crunching the qualifying data from Talladega on Saturday, and then melding it with the historical data:

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