Mid-Week Rankings: New Hampshire I, 2015

Kevin Harvick photo

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

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 DaytonaTalladega 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:

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