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