Update: I’ve posted my final Kansas 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 Kansas. I compiled them by crunching:
- The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Watkins Glen and Sonoma);
- the loop data for the past four races;
- the loop data for the past four races at Kansas;
- the loop data for the past eight races at other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Michigan, Kentucky, Fontana, Charlotte, Texas, Atlanta and Chicagoland);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Kansas; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.
The results:
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Kyle Busch
- Joey Logano
- Kevin Harvick
- Brad Keselowski
- Jimmie Johnson
- Chase Elliott
- Carl Edwards
- Matt Kenseth
- Denny Hamlin
- Kyle Larson
- Ryan Newman
- Kurt Busch
- Kasey Kahne
- Ryan Blaney
- Austin Dillon
- Jamie McMurray
- Tony Stewart
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Greg Biffle
- AJ Allmendinger
- Paul Menard
- Aric Almirola
- Trevor Bayne
- Alex Bowman
- Danica Patrick
- Clint Bowyer
- Brian Scott
- Casey Mears
- Chris Buescher
- David Ragan
- Landon Cassill
- Regan Smith
- Michael McDowell
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Michael Annett
- Cole Whitt
- Josh Wise
- Reed Sorenson
- Joey Gase