Early Rankings: Phoenix II, 2016

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

Update: I’ve posted my final Phoenix 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 Phoenix. I compiled them by crunching:

The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Talladega, Sonoma and Watkins Glen);
the loop data for the past four races (excluding Talladega);
the loop data for the past four races at Phoenix;
the loop data for the past eight races at the other tracks in the Flats track group (i.e., Richmond, Martinsville, Indy, Pocono and New Hampshire);
the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Phoenix; and
the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Flats.

The results:

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