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 Daytona, Talladega, Watkins Glen 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 eight 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 eight races at the aforementioned Flats.
The results:
- Joey Logano
- Kevin Harvick
- Brad Keselowski
- Kyle Busch
- Matt Kenseth
- Denny Hamlin
- Kurt Busch
- Carl Edwards
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Jeff Gordon
- Jimmie Johnson
- Kyle Larson
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Jamie McMurray
- Kasey Kahne
- Ryan Newman
- Clint Bowyer
- Paul Menard
- Austin Dillon
- Tony Stewart
- Aric Almirola
- AJ Allmendinger
- David Ragan
- Greg Biffle
- Danica Patrick
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Casey Mears
- Justin Allgaier
- B.J. McLeod(i)
- Landon Cassill
- David Gilliland
- Sam Hornish Jr.
- Trevor Bayne
- Cole Whitt
- Michael Annett
- Alex Bowman
- Brett Moffitt
- Josh Wise
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Jeffrey Earnhardt(i)
- Ryan Preece
- Travis Kvapil
- Jeb Burton
- Timmy Hill