Early Rankings: Atlanta, 2017 | NASCARpredict.com

Joey Logano tops my early Atlanta driver rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

Update: I’ve posted my final Atlanta driver rankings, which improve upon these early rankings.

Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Atlanta. I compiled them by crunching:

The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona, Talladega, and Watkins Glen);
the loop data for the past four races (excluding Daytona);
the loop data for the past four races at Atlanta;
the loop data for the past eight races at other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Michigan, Kentucky, Fontana, Charlotte, Texas, and Kansas);
the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Atlanta; and
the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.

Update 2/28/17: I’ve updated the rankings with the official Atlanta entry list.

The results: