Update: I’ve posted my final New Hampshire II driver rankings, which improve upon the below early rankings.
Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Cup race at New Hampshire. I compiled them by crunching:
- The loop data for the past 15 Cup races (excluding Daytona, Talladega, Watkins Glen and Sonoma);
- the loop data for the past four races;
- the loop data for the past four races at New Hampshire;
- the loop data for the past seven races at the other tracks in the Flats track group (i.e., Martinsville, Phoenix, Indy, Pocono and Richmond);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at New Hampshire; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past seven races at the aforementioned Flats.
The results:
- Martin Truex Jr.
- Kyle Busch
- Denny Hamlin
- Kevin Harvick
- Kyle Larson
- Matt Kenseth
- Brad Keselowski
- Chase Elliott
- Jimmie Johnson
- Joey Logano
- Kurt Busch
- Jamie McMurray
- Erik Jones
- Ryan Blaney
- Ryan Newman
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Kasey Kahne
- Daniel Suarez
- Clint Bowyer
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Austin Dillon
- Paul Menard
- Danica Patrick
- AJ Allmendinger
- Aric Almirola
- Trevor Bayne
- Ty Dillon
- Michael McDowell
- Chris Buescher
- David Ragan
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Landon Cassill
- Cole Whitt
- Corey LaJoie
- Brett Moffitt
- Reed Sorenson
- Jeffrey Earnhardt
- Derrike Cope
- #51 Car TBA