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