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