Update: I’ve posted my final Dover I driver rankings, which improve upon the below early rankings.
Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Cup race at Dover. 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 Dover;
- the loop data for the past five races at the other tracks in the Steeps track group (i.e., Bristol, Darlington, Las Vegas and Homestead);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Dover; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past five races at the aforementioned Steeps.
The results:
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Kevin Harvick
- Kyle Busch
- Kyle Larson
- Matt Kenseth
- Denny Hamlin
- Joey Logano
- Jimmie Johnson
- Chase Elliott
- Brad Keselowski
- Jamie McMurray
- Kurt Busch
- Ryan Blaney
- Erik Jones
- Kasey Kahne
- Ryan Newman
- Austin Dillon
- Clint Bowyer
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Daniel Suarez
- Paul Menard
- AJ Allmendinger
- Trevor Bayne
- #43 Car
- Ty Dillon
- Chris Buescher
- Danica Patrick
- David Ragan
- Michael McDowell
- Landon Cassill
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Cole Whitt
- Carl Long
- Ryan Sieg
- Gray Gaulding
- Ross Chastain
- Jeffrey Earnhardt
- Cody Ware