Betting on NASCAR

Here are my early(not me) driver rankings for this week’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Phoenix. I compiled them by crunching:

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

Some go the extra mile to prepare..whew!!