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:
- Kyle Busch
- Martin Truex Jr
- Kyle Larson
- Matt Kenseth
- Brad Keselowski
- Denny Hamlin
- Kevin Harvick
- Chase Elliott
- Jimmie Johnson
- Joey Logano
- Jamie McMurray
- Erik Jones
- Ryan Blaney
- Ryan Newman
- Dale Earnhardt Jr
- Kurt Busch
- Kasey Kahne
- Clint Bowyer
- AJ Allmendinger
- Austin Dillon
- Paul Menard
- Daniel Suarez
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr
- Aric Almirola
- Danica Patrick
- Trevor Bayne
- Ty Dillon
- Michael McDowell
- Chris Buescher
- David Ragan
- Landon Cassill
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Cole Whitt
- Corey LaJoie
- JJ Yeley (Hermie Sadler?)
- Reed Sorenson
- #83 Car TBA
- Carl Long
- Jeffrey Earnhardt
- #51 Car TBA
Note: To crunch loop data, I use the Statistics Wizard on Fantasy Racing Cheatsheet.
Can not pull up final rankings for martinsville