Update: I’ve posted my final Charlotte I driver rankings, which improve upon the below early rankings.
Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Cup race at Charlotte. 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 Charlotte;
- the loop data for the past eight races at the other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Fontana, Kansas, Atlanta, Texas, Chicagoland, Michigan and Kentuck);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Charlotte; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.
Plus, I tweaked the results obtained with the above with data pulled from the All Star and Open prelims and races. The results:
- Kyle Larson
- Kevin Harvick
- Kyle Busch
- Jimmie Johnson
- Martin Truex Jr
- Brad Keselowski
- Kurt Busch
- Joey Logano
- Denny Hamlin
- Chase Elliott
- Matt Kenseth
- Jamie McMurray
- Ryan Blaney
- Clint Bowyer
- Ryan Newman
- Erik Jones #
- Dale Earnhardt Jr
- Kasey Kahne
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr
- Austin Dillon
- Daniel Suarez
- AJ Allmendinger
- Trevor Bayne
- Paul Menard
- Ty Dillon
- Chris Buescher
- Danica Patrick
- Regan Smith
- Michael McDowell
- David Ragan
- Landon Cassill
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Cole Whitt
- Corey LaJoie
- Reed Sorenson
- Gray Gaulding
- Jeffrey Earnhardt
- Timmy Hill
- Derrike Cope
- Cody Ware
- Carl Long
Will final rankings be posted tonight or tomorrow?
Could use a final rankings, thanks
Tonight, crunching them now!