Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Bristol. I compiled them by crunching:
- The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Talladega, Watkins Glen and Sonoma;
- the loop data for the past four races;
- the loop data for the past four races at Bristol;
- the loop data for the past six races at the other tracks in the Steeps track group (i.e., Dover, Darlington, Las Vegas and Homestead);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Bristol; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past six races at the aforementioned Steeps.
The results:
- Kevin Harvick
- Brad Keselowski
- Matt Kenseth
- Joey Logano
- Denny Hamlin
- Kyle Busch
- Jimmie Johnson
- Carl Edwards
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Jeff Gordon
- Kurt Busch
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Kyle Larson
- Ryan Newman
- Kasey Kahne
- Jamie McMurray
- Clint Bowyer
- Paul Menard
- Austin Dillon
- Aric Almirola
- Greg Biffle
- Ryan Blaney
- AJ Allmendinger
- Tony Stewart
- David Ragan
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Danica Patrick
- Casey Mears
- Sam Hornish Jr.
- Justin Allgaier
- Trevor Bayne
- David Gilliland
- Brett Moffitt
- Landon Cassill
- Michael Annett
- Cole Whitt
- Alex Bowman
- Michael McDowell
- Josh Wise
- Reed Sorenson
- J.J Yeley
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Travis Kvapil
- Jeb Burton
- Timmy Hill
- Mike Bliss