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