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