Early Rankings: Bristol I, 2017

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

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

The loop data for the past 15 Sprint Cup races (excluding Daytona and Talladega);
the loop data for the past four races;
the loop data for the past four races at Bristol;
the loop data for the past five races at the other tracks in the Steeps track group (i.e., Dover, Darlington, Las Vegas and Homestead);
the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Bristol; and
the practice and qualifying data for past five races at the aforementioned Steeps.

The results:

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