Update: I’ve now completed my final Charlotte II rankings (click here to see them).
Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Charlotte. I compiled them by crunching:
- The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Watkins Glen, Sonoma and Talladega);
- the loop data for the past four races;
- the loop data for the past four races at Charlotte;
- the loop data for the past eight races at the other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Fontana, Kansas, Atlanta, Texas, Chicago, Michigan and Kentucky);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Charlotte; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.
Plus, I tweaked those results with data pulled from the 2015 All Star and Showdown qualifyings and races. The results:
- Kevin Harvick
- Denny Hamlin
- Kurt Busch
- Brad Keselowski
- Joey Logano
- Kyle Busch
- Matt Kenseth
- Jimmie Johnson
- Carl Edwards
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Jeff Gordon
- Kasey Kahne
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Jamie McMurray
- Ryan Newman
- Kyle Larson
- Clint Bowyer
- Greg Biffle
- Paul Menard
- Austin Dillon
- Aric Almirola
- Tony Stewart
- David Ragan
- AJ Allmendinger
- Ryan Blaney
- Danica Patrick
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Casey Mears
- Justin Allgaier
- Sam Hornish Jr.
- Trevor Bayne
- David Gilliland
- Alex Bowman
- Landon Cassill
- Michael McDowell
- Cole Whitt
- Brett Moffitt
- Michael Annett
- Josh Wise
- J.J Yeley
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Jeb Burton
- Reed Sorenson
- Timmy Hill
- Alex Kennedy