Update: I’ve posted my final Kentucky driver rankings, which improve upon these early rankings.
Here are my mid-week driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kentucky. I compiled them by crunching:
- The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona II, Talladega and Sonoma;
- the loop data for the past four races at Kentucky;
- the loop data for the past seven races at other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Fontana, Kansas, Texas, Charlotte, Atlanta and Michigan;
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Kentucky; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.
The results:
- Brad Keselowski
- Kevin Harvick
- Joey Logano
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Jimmie Johnson
- Kyle Busch
- Carl Edwards
- Chase Elliott
- Matt Kenseth
- Denny Hamlin
- Kurt Busch
- Ryan Newman
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Austin Dillon
- Ryan Blaney
- Jamie McMurray
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Kyle Larson
- Kasey Kahne
- AJ Allmendinger
- Tony Stewart
- Greg Biffle
- Paul Menard
- Aric Almirola
- Clint Bowyer
- Trevor Bayne
- Casey Mears
- Danica Patrick
- Ty Dillon
- Brian Scott
- Chris Buescher
- David Ragan
- Landon Cassill
- Regan Smith
- Michael Annett
- Cole Whitt
- Josh Wise
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Jeffrey Earnhardt
- Reed Sorenson
When will the final rankings for Kentucky 2016 be posted?
Hi Brenda. I just posted them here: https://nascarpredict.com/2016/07/09/final-rankings-kentucky-2016/