Martin Truex Jr. tops my early Kansas I driver rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kansas. 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 Kansas;
• the loop data for the past seven races at other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Michigan, Kentucky, Fontana, Charlotte, Texas, Atlanta and Chicagoland);
• the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Kansas; and
• the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.

The results:

1. Martin Truex Jr.
2. Joey Logano
3. Brad Keselowski
4. Kevin Harvick
5. Kyle Busch
6. Jimmie Johnson
7. Chase Elliott
8. Kyle Larson
9. Matt Kenseth
10. Denny Hamlin
11. Ryan Blaney
12. Ryan Newman
13. Kurt Busch
14. Jamie McMurray
15. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
16. Clint Bowyer
17. Kasey Kahne
18. Austin Dillon
19. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
20. Erik Jones
21. Trevor Bayne
22. AJ Allmendinger
23. Paul Menard
24. Ty Dillon
25. Aric Almirola
26. Daniel Suarez
27. Danica Patrick
28. Chris Buescher
29. Michael McDowell
30. David Ragan
31. Landon Cassill
32. Matt DiBenedetto
33. Cole Whitt
34. Corey LaJoie
35. Gray Gaulding
36. Reed Sorenson
37. #66 Car – Driver TBA
38. Jeffrey Earnhardt
39. Derrike Cope
40. Timmy Hill