Early Rankings: Kansas I, 2015

Kevin Harvick is a big favorite in my early Kansas rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kansas. 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 Kansas;
the loop data for the past eight races at other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Michigan, Kentucky, Fontana, Charlotte, Texas, Atlanta and Chicagoland);
the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Kansas; and
the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.

The results:

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