Early Rankings: Martinsville II, 2015

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

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., RichmondPhoenixIndyPocono 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:

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