Early Rankings: Homestead, 2017

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

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:

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