Early Rankings: New Hampshire I, 2016

Kevin Harvick tops my early New Hampshire I driver rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

Update: I’ve posted my final New Hampshire I driver rankings, which improve upon these early rankings.

Here are my early driver rankings for Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at New Hampshire. I compiled them by crunching:

The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Talladega and Sonoma);
the loop data for the past four races;
the loop data for the past four races at New Hampshire;
the loop data for the past seven races at the other tracks in the Flats track group (i.e., Martinsville, Phoenix, Indy, Pocono and Richmond);
the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at New Hampshire; and
the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Flats.

The results:

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