Mid-Week Rankings: New Hampshire II, 2015

Joey Logano tops my early New Hampshire II rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

Joey Logano tops my early New Hampshire II rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

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 DaytonaTalladega, 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:

  1. Joey Logano
  2. Kevin Harvick
  3. Brad Keselowski
  4. Kyle Busch
  5. Matt Kenseth
  6. Denny Hamlin
  7. Kurt Busch
  8. Carl Edwards
  9. Martin Truex Jr.
  10. Jeff Gordon
  11. Jimmie Johnson
  12. Kyle Larson
  13. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
  14. Jamie McMurray
  15. Kasey Kahne
  16. Ryan Newman
  17. Clint Bowyer
  18. Paul Menard
  19. Austin Dillon
  20. Tony Stewart
  21. Aric Almirola
  22. AJ Allmendinger
  23. David Ragan
  24. Greg Biffle
  25. Danica Patrick
  26. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
  27. Casey Mears
  28. Justin Allgaier
  29. B.J. McLeod(i)
  30. Landon Cassill
  31. David Gilliland
  32. Sam Hornish Jr.
  33. Trevor Bayne
  34. Cole Whitt
  35. Michael Annett
  36. Alex Bowman
  37. Brett Moffitt
  38. Josh Wise
  39. Matt DiBenedetto
  40. Jeffrey Earnhardt(i)
  41. Ryan Preece
  42. Travis Kvapil
  43. Jeb Burton
  44. Timmy Hill