Update: I’ve posted my final driver rankings for Martinsville II, which improve upon the below early rankings.
Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Martinsville. I compiled them by crunching:
- The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Sonoma, Watkins Glen and Talladega);
- the loop data for the past four races;
- the loop data for the past four races at Martinsville;
- the loop data for the past eight races at the other tracks in the Flats track group (i.e., Richmond, Phoenix, Indy, Pocono and New Hampshire);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Martinsville; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Flats.
The results:
- Kyle Busch
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Matt Kenseth
- Kevin Harvick
- Denny Hamlin
- Joey Logano
- Jimmie Johnson
- Carl Edwards
- Brad Keselowski
- Jeff Gordon
- Kurt Busch
- Kyle Larson
- Chase Elliott
- Ryan Newman
- Kasey Kahne
- Tony Stewart
- Jamie McMurray
- AJ Allmendinger
- Austin Dillon
- Ryan Blaney
- Paul Menard
- Greg Biffle
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Aric Almirola
- Danica Patrick
- Casey Mears
- Clint Bowyer
- Trevor Bayne
- David Ragan
- Chris Buescher
- Brian Scott
- Regan Smith
- Michael McDowell
- Landon Cassill
- Dylan Lupton
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Michael Annett
- Cole Whitt
- Gray Gaulding
- Jeffrey Earnhardt
- Reed Sorenson