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:
- Kevin Harvick
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Denny Hamlin
- Kyle Busch
- Matt Kenseth
- Brad Keselowski
- Carl Edwards
- Joey Logano
- Jimmie Johnson
- Chase Elliott
- Kyle Larson
- Kurt Busch
- Kasey Kahne
- Jeff Gordon
- Jamie McMurray
- Ryan Blaney
- Ryan Newman
- Austin Dillon
- Paul Menard
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- AJ Allmendinger
- Greg Biffle
- Aric Almirola
- Tony Stewart
- Clint Bowyer
- Trevor Bayne
- Casey Mears
- Chris Buescher
- Danica Patrick
- Ty Dillon
- Brian Scott
- David Ragan
- Regan Smith
- Landon Cassill
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Timmy Hill
- Michael Annett
- Josh Wise
- Reed Sorenson
- Jeffrey Earnhardt