Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kentucky. I compiled them by crunching:
- The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Talladega and Sonoma;
- the loop data for the past four races at Kentucky;
- the loop data for the past eight races at other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Fontana, Kansas, Texas, Charlotte, Atlanta and Michigan;
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Kentucky; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.
The results:
- Kevin Harvick
- Brad Keselowski
- Jimmie Johnson
- Kurt Busch
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Kyle Busch
- Joey Logano
- Matt Kenseth
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Denny Hamlin
- Kasey Kahne
- Jeff Gordon
- Carl Edwards
- Ryan Newman
- Jamie McMurray
- Paul Menard
- Kyle Larson
- Clint Bowyer
- Austin Dillon
- Greg Biffle
- Tony Stewart
- Aric Almirola
- A.J. Allmendinger
- Danica Patrick
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Casey Mears
- David Ragan
- Sam Hornish Jr.
- Trevor Bayne
- Ryan Blaney
- Justin Allgaier
- Landon Cassill
- Brett Moffitt
- Michael Annett
- David Gilliland
- Michael McDowell
- Josh Wise
- Cole Whitt
- Alex Bowman
- Jeb Burton
- Jeff Green
- Will Kimmel
- Matt DiBenedetto
- J.J Yeley
- Brendan Gaughan
- Alex Kennedy