Early Rankings: Kansas II, 2017

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

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

Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Cup race at Kansas. 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 Kansas;
the loop data for the past eight races at other tracks in the Large Ovals track group (i.e., Michigan, Kentucky, Fontana, Charlotte, Texas, Atlanta and Chicagoland);
the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Kansas; and
the practice and qualifying data for past eight races at the aforementioned Large Ovals.

The results:

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