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