Update: I’ve posted my final Charlotte 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 Charlotte. 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 Charlotte;
- the loop data for the past eight races at the other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Fontana, Kansas, Atlanta, Texas, Chicago, Michigan and Kentucky);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Charlotte; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.
The results:
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Kevin Harvick
- Joey Logano
- Denny Hamlin
- Brad Keselowski
- Kyle Busch
- Jimmie Johnson
- Carl Edwards
- Kurt Busch
- Matt Kenseth
- Chase Elliott
- Kyle Larson
- Austin Dillon
- Ryan Newman
- Jamie McMurray
- Ryan Blaney
- Kasey Kahne
- Alex Bowman
- Greg Biffle
- Tony Stewart
- Paul Menard
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- AJ Allmendinger
- Aric Almirola
- Trevor Bayne
- Danica Patrick
- Casey Mears
- Clint Bowyer
- Chris Buescher
- Brian Scott
- David Ragan
- Regan Smith
- Landon Cassill
- Michael McDowell
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Michael Annett
- Cole Whitt
- Josh Wise
- Reed Sorenson
- Jeffrey Earnhardt