Update: I’ve now completed my final Kansas II rankings (click here to see them).
Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kansas. I compiled them by crunching:
- The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Watkins Glen and Sonoma);
- the loop data for the past four races;
- the loop data for the past four races at Kansas;
- 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 Chicagoland);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Kansas; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.
The results:
- Kevin Harvick
- Joey Logano
- Carl Edwards
- Kurt Busch
- Kyle Busch
- Brad Keselowski
- Matt Kenseth
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Jimmie Johnson
- Jeff Gordon
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Kyle Larson
- Denny Hamlin
- Ryan Newman
- Kasey Kahne
- Jamie McMurray
- Austin Dillon
- Paul Menard
- Aric Almirola
- Clint Bowyer
- Greg Biffle
- Tony Stewart
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Ryan Blaney
- Danica Patrick
- AJ Allmendinger
- David Ragan
- Casey Mears
- Brian Scott
- Justin Allgaier
- Sam Hornish Jr.
- Trevor Bayne
- Landon Cassill
- David Gilliland
- Cole Whitt
- Alex Bowman
- Michael Annett
- J.J Yeley
- Brett Moffitt
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Reed Sorenson
- Jeb Burton
- Will Kimmel III
- Timmy Hill