Early Rankings: Richmond II, 2017

Kyle Busch tops my early Richmond II driver rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

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

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

The loop data for the past 15 Cup races (excluding Daytona, Talladega, Sonoma and Watkins Glen);
the loop data for the past four races;
the loop data for the past four races at Richmond;
the loop data for the past eight races at four other tracks in the Flats track group (i.e., Martinsville, Phoenix, Pocono, Indy and New Hampshire);
the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Richmond; and
the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Flats.

The results:

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