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:
- Martin Truex Jr
- Kyle Busch
- Kevin Harvick
- Kyle Larson
- Matt Kenseth
- Chase Elliott
- Brad Keselowski
- Denny Hamlin
- Ryan Blaney
- Jimmie Johnson
- Joey Logano
- Kurt Busch
- Jamie McMurray
- Daniel Suarez
- Erik Jones
- Austin Dillon
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr
- Dale Earnhardt Jr
- Ryan Newman
- Clint Bowyer
- Kasey Kahne
- Trevor Bayne
- Paul Menard
- AJ Allmendinger
- Aric Almirola
- Ty Dillon
- Danica Patrick
- Chris Buescher
- Michael McDowell
- David Ragan
- Landon Cassill
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Cole Whitt
- Corey LaJoie
- Gray Gaulding
- Jeffrey Earnhardt
- Reed Sorenson
- Derrike Cope
- Carl Long
- Brett Moffitt
- #51 Car TBA
Note: To crunch loop data, I use the Statistics Wizard on Fantasy Racing Cheatsheet.