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

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

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

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

The results:

1. Kyle Busch
2. Martin Truex Jr
3. Kyle Larson
4. Matt Kenseth
5. Brad Keselowski
6. Denny Hamlin
7. Kevin Harvick
8. Chase Elliott
9. Jimmie Johnson
10. Joey Logano
11. Jamie McMurray
12. Erik Jones
13. Ryan Blaney
14. Ryan Newman
15. Dale Earnhardt Jr
16. Kurt Busch
17. Kasey Kahne
18. Clint Bowyer
19. AJ Allmendinger
20. Austin Dillon
21. Paul Menard
22. Daniel Suarez
23. Ricky Stenhouse Jr
24. Aric Almirola
25. Danica Patrick
26. Trevor Bayne
27. Ty Dillon
28. Michael McDowell
29. Chris Buescher
30. David Ragan
31. Landon Cassill
32. Matt DiBenedetto
33. Cole Whitt
34. Corey LaJoie
35. JJ Yeley (Hermie Sadler?)
36. Reed Sorenson
37. #83 Car TBA
38. Carl Long
39. Jeffrey Earnhardt
40. #51 Car TBA

Note: To crunch loop data, I use the Statistics Wizard on Fantasy Racing Cheatsheet.