Early Rankings: Dover I, 2015

Kevin Harvick photo

Kevin Harvick tops my early Dover rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Dover. 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 Dover;
  • the loop data for the past six races at the other tracks in the Steeps track group (i.e., BristolDarlingtonLas Vegas and Homestead);
  • the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Dover; and
  • the practice and qualifying data for past six races at the aforementioned Steeps.

The results:

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