Update: I’ve posted my final Bristol II driver rankings, which improve upon these early rankings.
Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Bristol. I compiled them by crunching:
- The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Talladega, Watkins Glen and Sonoma;
- the loop data for the past four races;
- the loop data for the past four races at Bristol;
- the loop data for the past five races at the other tracks in the Steeps track group (i.e., Dover, Darlington, Las Vegas and Homestead);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Bristol; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past five races at the aforementioned Steeps.
The results:
- Kevin Harvick
- Carl Edwards
- Kyle Busch
- Joey Logano
- Matt Kenseth
- Brad Keselowski
- Kurt Busch
- Denny Hamlin
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Jimmie Johnson
- Kyle Larson
- Kasey Kahne
- Jeff Gordon
- Ryan Newman
- Ryan Blaney
- Jamie McMurray
- Austin Dillon
- Chase Elliott
- Paul Menard
- Greg Biffle
- Tony Stewart
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- AJ Allmendinger
- Aric Almirola
- Clint Bowyer
- Trevor Bayne
- Casey Mears
- David Ragan
- Danica Patrick
- Chris Buescher
- Landon Cassill
- Michael McDowell
- Brian Scott
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Regan Smith
- Cole Whitt
- Michael Annett
- Josh Wise
- Reed Sorenson
- Jeffrey Earnhardt
Lineups out soon bro?