Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kansas. 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 Kansas;
- the loop data for the past eight races at other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Michigan, Kentucky, Fontana, Charlotte, Texas, Atlanta and Chicagoland);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Kansas; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.
The results:
- Kevin Harvick
- Joey Logano
- Carl Edwards
- Kyle Busch
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Jimmie Johnson
- Brad Keselowski
- Matt Kenseth
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Kurt Busch
- Denny Hamlin
- Ryan Newman
- Kasey Kahne
- Kyle Larson
- Austin Dillon
- Jamie McMurray
- Greg Biffle
- Tony Stewart
- Paul Menard
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Aric Almirola
- AJ Allmendinger
- Chase Elliott
- Ryan Blaney
- Clint Bowyer
- Danica Patrick
- Trevor Bayne
- Casey Mears
- David Ragan
- Brian Scott
- Landon Cassill
- Michael Annett
- Chris Buescher
- Cole Whitt
- Regan Smith
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Joey Gase
- Michael McDowell
- Josh Wise
- Reed Sorenson
Interesting site…just found it today