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