Early Week Driver Rankings for Kansas

The 2023 NASCAR Cup Series will travel to “The Heartland” this week to race at Kansas Speedway. This is my home track and the one I have visited the most. The racing at Kansas is pretty good since they added the progressive banking. The cars will be all over the track, searching for the lane that works best for their cars. The variable that makes this track tricky is the winds. Kansas Speedway is located in an open field (it does have nice hotels, excellent restaurants and tons of shopping right next door) and when the winds pick up, it can be tough to hold onto the car. It should be one of the better races in 2023. The AdventHealth 400 can be seen Sunday at 3 p.m. ET on FS1.

The Cup Series will use the normal intermediate package this week. This will be the same package used at Auto Club, Las Vegas and last week at Dover. I will use the data from those races and the two races in the Gen-7 car last year at Kansas for the driver rankings this week. I will also sprinkle in some of the data from the last three oval (non-dirt) track races (Dover, Martinsville and Richmond) to give a bump to the drivers with momentum right now.

Here are my early week driver rankings for the AdventHealth 400 …

Be sure to check back Saturday night for the updated Driver Rankings for the race Sunday at the Monster Mile.

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