Kyle Busch tops my early Martinsville I driver rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

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

Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Cup race at Martinsville. 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;
• 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:

1. Kyle Busch
2. Martin Truex Jr.
3. Joey Logano
4. Brad Keselowski
5. Kyle Larson
6. Kevin Harvick
7. Denny Hamlin
8. Matt Kenseth
9. Jimmie Johnson
10. Erik Jones
11. Chase Elliott
12. Jamie McMurray
13. Ryan Newman
14. Kasey Kahne
15. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
16. Kurt Busch
17. Ryan Blaney
18. AJ Allmendinger
19. Austin Dillon
20. Paul Menard
21. Clint Bowyer
22. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
23. Aric Almirola
24. Ty Dillon
25. Danica Patrick
26. Trevor Bayne
27. Daniel Suarez
28. David Ragan
29. Michael McDowell
30. Chris Buescher
31. Landon Cassill
32. Matt DiBenedetto
33. Cole Whitt
34. Gray Gaulding
35. Corey LaJoie
36. Reed Sorenson
37. Jeffrey Earnhardt
38. Timmy Hill