Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Chicagoland. 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 Chicagoland;
- the loop data for the past eight races at other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Michigan, Kentucky, Fontana, Charlotte, Texas, Atlanta and Kansas);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Chicagoland; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.
The results:
- Brad Keselowski
- Joey Logano
- Matt Kenseth
- Kyle Busch
- Kevin Harvick
- Jimmie Johnson
- Kurt Busch
- Carl Edwards
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Denny Hamlin
- Kyle Larson
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Jeff Gordon
- Kasey Kahne
- Ryan Newman
- Jamie McMurray
- Clint Bowyer
- Austin Dillon
- Paul Menard
- Aric Almirola
- Tony Stewart
- Greg Biffle
- David Ragan
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Sam Hornish Jr.
- A.J. Allmendinger
- Ryan Blaney(i)
- Danica Patrick
- Casey Mears
- Justin Allgaier
- Trevor Bayne
- Brian Scott
- Landon Cassill
- Brett Moffitt
- Michael Annett
- Cole Whitt
- David Gilliland
- Alex Bowman
- Michael McDowell
- J.J Yeley
- Josh Wise
- Jeb Burton
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Reed Sorenson
- Travis Kvapil
- Timmy Hill