Talladega: Pre-Race Driver Rating

Everyone knows Dale Earnhardt Jr. is strong at Talladega. But did you know Denny Hamlin is, too? And David Ragan?

Thanks to NASCAR's pre-race driver rating, now you do.

At one of the toughest tracks to make fantasy picks and predictions due to wrecks and the lottery ball nature of the racing, the driver rating may not help you as much as usual this week.

But our opinion is using it probably can't hurt.

Aaron's 499 Pre-Race
For point-paying races in current and past four years, at this track.
Talladega Superspeedway
Sunday, April 25, 2010

Driver Rating
Formula combining the following categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish. Maximum: 150 points per race.
Number of Races: 10

Rank	Car	Driver	    Avg Finish	High	AVG DRIVER RATING
1	09	Brad Keselowski	4.5	98.9	94.2
2	11	Denny Hamlin	21.3	125.0	93.4
3	88	D Earnhardt Jr.	20.7	119.0	92.2
4	6	David Ragan	14.5	121.5	91.8
5	20	Joey Logano	6.0	91.2	90.0
6	14	Tony Stewart	16.1	117.2	89.9
7	83	Brian Vickers	16.3	107.6	89.3
8	24	Jeff Gordon	20.5	135.5	87.1
9	31	Jeff Burton	18.4	101.0	85.8
10	17	Matt Kenseth	17.2	120.1	85.7
11	2	Kurt Busch	13.1	107.3	85.6
12	26	Jamie McMurray	19.3	110.5	84.5
13	42	Juan Montoya	18.7	102.9	83.8
14	48	Jimmie Johnson	13.8	117.2	82.7
15	19	Elliott Sadler	19.1	105.0	80.7
16	39	Ryan Newman	19.3	111.3	78.3
17	18	Kyle Busch	24.6	93.1	76.4
18	1	M. Truex Jr.	28.4	91.9	75.4
19	28	Travis Kvapil	17.2	91.9	74.8
20	29	Kevin Harvick	18.0	101.9	74.7
21	47	Marcos Ambrose	19.0	81.4	74.5
22	07	Casey Mears	20.9	91.4	73.6
23	8	Aric Almirola	25.3	105.3	73.4
24	00	M. McDowell	26.0	70.9	70.9
25	36	Scott Riggs	20.8	90.6	70.1
26	12	David Stremme	24.7	85.0	68.7
27	16	Greg Biffle	22.4	89.7	68.4
28	99	Carl Edwards	21.7	103.4	67.6
29	55	Michael Waltrip	20.3	100.7	66.8
30	9	Kasey Kahne	20.3	98.7	66.0
31	33	Mike Wallace	22.6	76.7	65.9
32	98	Paul Menard	26.6	115.4	65.1
33	87	Joe Nemechek	24.8	85.2	64.1
34	70	Johnny Sauter	19.3	78.8	63.4
35	33	Clint Bowyer	23.3	90.7	63.4
36	00	David Reutimann	27.2	69.5	63.1
37	7	Robby Gordon	22.1	98.4	62.1
38	43	Reed Sorenson	24.1	91.8	61.4
39	5	Mark Martin	31.3	85.5	61.3
40	71	Bobby Labonte	20.6	79.1	61.1
41	78	Regan Smith	23.4	72.2	60.7
42	71	David Gilliland	23.5	94.4	60.6
43	66	Dave Blaney	21.7	87.2	56.7
44	82	Scott Speed	16.0	69.5	56.4
45	77	Sam Hornish Jr.	36.3	61.7	54.2
46	60	Boris Said	31.0	53.5	51.1
47	36	R.Richardson	18.0	48.7	48.7
48	13	Max Papis	23.5	50.0	46.1
49	34	John Andretti	27.7	47.4	46.0
50	49	Mike Bliss	31.3	52.2	44.9
51	44	AJ Allmendinger	32.7	56.8	40.4
52	27	K Shelmerdine	41.0	31.3	31.3
53	74	Derrike Cope	43.0	27.0	27.0