Early Rankings: Michigan II, 2016

Kevin Harvick tops my early Michigan II driver rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

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

Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Michigan. 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 Michigan;
the loop data for the past seven races at other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Fontana, Kansas, Texas, Charlotte, Atlanta, Chicagoland and Kentucky;
the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Michigan; and
the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.

The results:

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