Martin Truex Jr. tops my early Charlotte II driver rankings. (photo courtesy nascar)

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

Here are my mid-week 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, Watkins Glen, Sonoma 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, Chicago, Michigan and Kentucky);
• 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.

The results:

1. Martin Truex Jr.
2. Kyle Busch
3. Kevin Harvick
4. Kyle Larson
5. Denny Hamlin
6. Matt Kenseth
7. Chase Elliott
8. Brad Keselowski
9. Jimmie Johnson
10. Joey Logano
11. Kurt Busch
12. Erik Jones
13. Ryan Blaney
14. Jamie McMurray
15. Ryan Newman
16. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
17. Daniel Suarez
18. Austin Dillon
19. Clint Bowyer
20. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
21. Kasey Kahne
22. AJ Allmendinger
23. Trevor Bayne
24. Danica Patrick
25. Aric Almirola
26. Paul Menard
27. Chris Buescher
28. Michael McDowell
29. Ty Dillon
30. David Ragan
31. Landon Cassill
32. Matt DiBenedetto
33. Cole Whitt
34. Reed Sorenson
35. Corey LaJoie
36. Gray Gaulding
37. Jeffrey Earnhardt
38. Brett Moffitt
39. Carl Long
40. #51 Car – Driver TBA