Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at New Hampshire. 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;
- the loop data for the past four races at New Hampshire;
- the loop data for the past seven races at the other tracks in the Flats track group (i.e., Martinsville, Phoenix, Indy, Pocono and Richmond);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at New Hampshire; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Flats.
The results:
- Kevin Harvick
- Brad Keselowski
- Jeff Gordon
- Kyle Busch
- Joey Logano
- Matt Kenseth
- Kurt Busch
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Denny Hamlin
- Jimmie Johnson
- Kasey Kahne
- Kyle Larson
- Jamie McMurray
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Carl Edwards
- Ryan Newman
- Clint Bowyer
- Paul Menard
- Tony Stewart
- Greg Biffle
- Austin Dillon
- Aric Almirola
- AJ Allmendinger
- Danica Patrick
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Ryan Blaney
- David Ragan
- Casey Mears
- Justin Allgaier
- Trevor Bayne
- Sam Hornish Jr.
- David Gilliland
- Landon Cassill
- Derek White
- Michael Annett
- Cole Whitt
- Brett Moffitt
- Alex Bowman
- Reed Sorenson
- Timmy Hill
- Eddie MacDonald
- Jeb Burton
- Matt DiBenedetto
- J.J Yeley