Mid-Week Rankings: Charlotte II, 2015

Kevin Harvick tops my early Charlotte II rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

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:

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