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