Early Rankings: Michigan I, 2015

Kevin Harvick photo

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

Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Michigan. 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 Michigan;
  • the loop data for the past seven races at other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., FontanaKansasTexasCharlotte and Kentucky;
  • the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Michigan; and
  • the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.

The results:

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