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