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:
- Kevin Harvick
- Brad Keselowski
- Joey Logano
- Kyle Busch
- Matt Kenseth
- Carl Edwards
- Kurt Busch
- Jimmie Johnson
- Denny Hamlin
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Chase Elliott
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Kyle Larson
- Kasey Kahne
- Jamie McMurray
- Ryan Newman
- Ryan Blaney
- Tony Stewart
- Austin Dillon
- Paul Menard
- AJ Allmendinger
- Greg Biffle
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Clint Bowyer
- Aric Almirola
- Danica Patrick
- Casey Mears
- David Ragan
- Trevor Bayne
- Landon Cassill
- Brian Scott
- Chris Buescher
- Michael McDowell
- Regan Smith
- Cole Whitt
- Michael Annett
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Josh Wise
- Reed Sorenson
- Eddie MacDonald