Early Rankings: Las Vegas, 2017

Kevin Harvick tops my early Las Vegas driver rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

Update: I’ve posted my final Las Vegas driver rankings, which improve upon the below early rankings.

Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Cup race at Las Vegas. 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 Las Vegas;
the loop data for the past six races at the other tracks in the Steeps track group (i.e., Bristol, Darlington, Dover and Homestead);
the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Las Vegas; and
the practice and qualifying data for past six races at the aforementioned Steeps.

Update 3/8/17: I tweaked the rankings to match the official entry list.

The results:

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