Early Rankings: Fontana, 2017 | NASCARpredict.com

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

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

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

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

The results: