Update: I’ve completed my final Texas I driver rankings.
Here are my early driver rankings for Saturday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Texas. I compiled them by crunching:
- The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona 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:
- Kevin Harvick
- Jimmie Johnson
- Kyle Busch
- Joey Logano
- Brad Keselowski
- Carl Edwards
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Kurt Busch
- Matt Kenseth
- Denny Hamlin
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Ryan Newman
- Austin Dillon
- Chase Elliott
- Kasey Kahne
- Jamie McMurray
- Kyle Larson
- Paul Menard
- Greg Biffle
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Aric Almirola
- AJ Allmendinger
- Ty Dillon
- Ryan Blaney
- Clint Bowyer
- Trevor Bayne
- Casey Mears
- Brian Vickers
- Danica Patrick
- David Ragan
- Brian Scott
- Landon Cassill
- Regan Smith
- Michael Annett
- Cole Whitt
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Chris Buescher
- Josh Wise
- Reed Sorenson
- Jeffrey Earnhardt