Here are my early driver rankings for this week’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, Watkins Glen and Sonoma);
• the loop data for the past four races;
• the loop data for the past four races at New Hampshire;
  

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

• the loop data for the past eight 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 eight races at the aforementioned Flats.

The results:

1. Kevin Harvick
2. Kyle Busch
3. Brad Keselowski
4. Denny Hamlin
5. Joey Logano
6. Matt Kenseth
7. Martin Truex Jr.
8. Carl Edwards
9. Jimmie Johnson
10. Kyle Larson
11. Kurt Busch
12. Chase Elliott
13. Kasey Kahne
14. Jamie McMurray
15. Ryan Newman
16. Austin Dillon
17. Ryan Blaney
18. Alex Bowman
19. Tony Stewart
20. AJ Allmendinger
21. Paul Menard
22. Greg Biffle
23. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
24. Danica Patrick
25. Aric Almirola
26. Casey Mears
27. Trevor Bayne
28. Clint Bowyer
29. David Ragan
30. Chris Buescher
31. Landon Cassill
32. Brian Scott
33. Regan Smith
34. Matt DiBenedetto
35. Michael McDowell
36. Cole Whitt
37. Michael Annett
38. Josh Wise
39. Reed Sorenson
40. Jeffrey Earnhardt