Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Charlotte. 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 Charlotte;
- the loop data for the past eight races at the other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Fontana, Kansas, Atlanta, Texas, Chicago, Michigan and Kentucky);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Charlotte; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.
Plus, I tweaked the results obtained with the above with data pulled from the All Star and Showdown qualifyings and races. The results:
- Kevin Harvick
- Kurt Busch
- Brad Keselowski
- Jimmie Johnson
- Jeff Gordon
- Kasey Kahne
- Joey Logano
- Denny Hamlin
- Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
- Matt Kenseth
- Kyle Busch
- Carl Edwards
- Martin Truex, Jr.
- Jamie McMurray
- Ryan Newman
- Kyle Larson
- Clint Bowyer
- Paul Menard
- Greg Biffle
- Tony Stewart
- Aric Almirola
- A.J. Allmendinger
- Austin Dillon
- Danica Patrick
- Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.
- Justin Allgaier
- Casey Mears
- Sam Hornish, Jr.
- David Ragan
- Trevor Bayne
- Chase Elliott
- Ryan Blaney(i)
- David Gilliland
- Brett Moffitt #
- Michael Annett
- Alex Bowman
- Michael McDowell
- Jeff Green
- Landon Cassill
- Alex Kennedy
- Cole Whitt
- Josh Wise
- Jeb Burton
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Travis Kvapil
- Brendan Gaughan
- J.J. Yeley
- Mike Bliss