Dale Jr. tops my early Daytona 500 driver rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)
Update: I’ve now completed my final Daytona rankings.
Here are my early driver rankings for the Daytona 500. I compiled them by crunching the qualifying data from Daytona yesterday, and then melding it with the historical data:
- Dale Earnhardt Jr
- Jimmie Johnson
- Denny Hamlin
- Kevin Harvick
- Kasey Kahne
- Paul Menard
- Matt Kenseth
- Kurt Busch
- Joey Logano
- Carl Edwards
- Kyle Busch
- Brad Keselowski
- Chase Elliott
- Ryan Blaney
- Austin Dillon
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr
- Jamie McMurray
- Kyle Larson
- Ryan Newman
- Casey Mears
- Greg Biffle
- Martin Truex Jr
- Clint Bowyer
- Aric Almirola
- Danica Patrick
- Trevor Bayne
- Brian Scott
- David Ragan
- Michael McDowell
- Chris Buescher
- Brian Vickers
- Michael Waltrip
- Ty Dillon
- AJ Allmendinger
- Michael Annett
- Bobby Labonte
- Regan Smith
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Cole Whitt
- David Gilliland
- Landon Cassill
- Robert Richardson
- Reed Sorenson
- Josh Wise