Early Rankings: Dover II, 2016

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

Update: I’ve posted my final Dover II driver rankings, which improve upon the below early rankings.

Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Dover. I compiled them by crunching:

The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Watkins Glen, Sonoma and Talladega);
the loop data for the past four races;
the loop data for the past four races at Dover;
the loop data for the past five races at the other tracks in the Steeps track group (i.e., Bristol, Darlington, Las Vegas and Homestead);
the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Dover; and
the practice and qualifying data for past five races at the aforementioned Steeps.

The results:

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