Update: I’ve posted my final Homestead driver rankings, which improve upon the below early rankings.
Here are my early driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Cup race at Homestead. I compiled them by crunching:
- The loop data for the past 15 Cup races (excluding Watkins Glen and Talladega;
- the loop data for the past four races;
- the loop data for the past four races at Homestead;
- the loop data for the past six races at the other tracks in the Steeps track group (i.e., Bristol, Darlington, Las Vegas and Dover);
- the practice and qualifying data for the past four races at Homestead; and
- the practice and qualifying data for past six races at the aforementioned Steeps.
The results:
- Martin Truex Jr
- Kyle Busch
- Kevin Harvick
- Matt Kenseth
- Chase Elliott
- Denny Hamlin
- Kyle Larson
- Brad Keselowski
- Jimmie Johnson
- Joey Logano
- Erik Jones
- Ryan Blaney
- Kurt Busch
- Ryan Newman
- Jamie McMurray
- Dale Earnhardt Jr
- Kasey Kahne
- Clint Bowyer
- Daniel Suarez
- Austin Dillon
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr
- Paul Menard
- Aric Almirola
- Trevor Bayne
- AJ Allmendinger
- Chris Buescher
- Danica Patrick
- Ty Dillon
- Michael McDowell
- David Ragan
- Landon Cassill
- Matt DiBenedetto
- Cole Whitt
- Corey LaJoie
- Ross Chastain
- Reed Sorenson
- Jeffrey Earnhardt
- Carl Long
- Ray Black II