Indycar Twitter Stats

So last July, something hit me. I was wondering which drivers gain the most followers and which drivers people seem to attract to on Twitter as they follow them. So this table is what I came up with. These are all of the drivers involved in Indycar including the Mazda Road to Indy, with a couple of miscellaneous Indycar related Twitter peeps in there. The first column is the rank the drivers had with largest to smallest number of followers on July 28th, 2012, which when I took these stats. Next column is the driver listed. The next column is the amount of followers the driver had in July. Next to that is the amount of followers the driver has now. Using those new follower numbers, I ranked them once again. The change column is the change in rank from July to now. Not that followers on Twitter is a competition, but it helps see which drivers are gaining followers:

Rank in July	Driver	7/28/2012	2/5/2013	New Rank	Change
1	Tony Kanaan	536673	578930	1	0
2	Arie Luyendyk Jr	92922	126883	2	0
9	EJ Viso	47647	120734	3	6
3	AJ Allmendinger	74024	90043	4	1
5	Dario Franchitti	72567	86318	5	0
4	Indycar Account	73494	79626	6	-2
7	Helio Castroneves	67000	78462	7	0
6	Alex Tagliani	67803	67508	8	-2
8	Marco Andretti	48470	52727	9	-1
10	Scott Dixon	47379	49796	10	0
13	Graham Rahal	28456	44163	11	2
39	Townsend Bell	5406	37829	12	27
11	Ana Beatriz	33124	35649	13	-2
12	Will Power	30680	34665	14	-2
16	Ryan Hunter-Reay	24559	28832	15	1
14	Ryan Briscoe	25408	28110	16	-2
15	Paul Tracy	24905	26726	17	-2
17	James Hinchcliffe	22674	26471	18	-1
18	Justin Wilson	19848	22091	19	-1
19	Simona de Silvestro	18690	20944	20	-1
21	Takuma Sato	15367	17881	21	0
23	JR Hildebrand	14628	16391	22	1
20	Tomas Scheckter	15596	16361	23	-3
22	Randy Bernard	15065	16093	24	-2
24	Oriol Servia	12952	14683	25	-1
26	Gustavo Yacaman	11672	14168	26	0
33	Alex Lloyd	7308	13621	27	6
27	Ed Carpenter	11553	12956	28	-1
25	Mike Conway	11687	12749	29	-4
28	Pippa Mann	11340	12407	30	-2
31	Esteban Guerrieri	8268	11389	31	0
30	Sebastian Saavedra	8528	10350	32	-2
45	Zach Veach	2161	9876	33	12
32	Katherine Legge	8018	9581	34	-2
36	Simon Pagenaud	6952	9556	35	1
29	James Jakes	8652	9086	36	-7
34	Conor Daly	7257	8731	37	-3
35	Charlie Kimball	7188	8661	38	-3
37	Josef Newgarden	6183	8229	39	-2
38	Bryan Clauson	5676	7254	40	-2
40	Beaux Barfield	5209	6169	41	-1
46	Sebastien Bourdais	1875	4401	42	4
43	Martin Plowman	3624	4382	43	0
42	Wade Cunningham	3781	4329	44	-2
41	Connor De Phillippi	4071	4277	45	-4
44	Stefan Wilson	2422	2750	46	-2
47	Anders Krohn	1687	1863	47	0
48	Sage Karam	1487	1767	48	0
49	Peter Dempsey	1273	1607	49	0
53	Carlos Munoz	738	1154	50	3
54	Tristan Vautier	603	1151	51	3
51	Spencer Pigot	803	1091	52	-1
50	Gustavo Menezes	971	1071	53	-3
52	Stefan Rzadzinski	776	876	54	-2
56	Matt Brabham	334	789	55	1
55	Petri Suvanto	539	668	56	-1
58	Jack Hawksworth	269	523	57	1
57	David Ostella	279	343	58	-1

Here is the ranking of drivers by percent change using the percent change formula { [(Y2-Y1) / Y1] x 100 }

Townsend Bell	599.8
Zach Veach	357.1
EJ Viso	153.4
Matt Brabham	136.2
Sebastien Bourdais	134.7
Jack Hawksworth	94.4
Tristan Vautier	90.9
Alex Lloyd	86.4
Carlos Munoz	56.4
Graham Rahal	55.2
Esteban Guerrieri	37.8
Simon Pagenaud	37.5
Arie Luyendyk Jr	36.5
Spencer Pigot	35.9
Josef Newgarden	33.1
Bryan Clauson	27.8
Peter Dempsey	26.2
Petri Suvanto	23.9
David Ostella	22.9
AJ Allmendinger	21.6
Gustavo Yacaman	21.4
Sebastian Saavedra	21.4
Martin Plowman	21
Charlie Kimball	20.5
Katherine Legge	19.5
Dario Franchitti	18.9
Beaux Barfield	18.4
James Hinchcliffe	18
Ryan Hunter-Reay	17.4
Helio Castroneves	17.1
Sage Karam	16.8
Takuma Sato	16.4
Conor Daly	16
Wade Cunningham	14.5
Stefan Wilson	13.5
Oriol Servia	13.4
Will Power	13
Stefan Rzadzinski	12.9
Simona de Silvestro	12.1
JR Hildebrand	12.1
Ed Carpenter	12.1
Justin Wilson	11.3
Ryan Briscoe	10.6
Anders Krohn	10.4
Gustavo Menezes	10.3
Pippa Mann	9.4
Mike Conway	9.1
Marco Andretti	8.8
Indycar Account	8.3
Tony Kanaan	7.8
Ana Beatriz	7.6
Paul Tracy	7.3
Randy Bernard	6.8
Scott Dixon	5.1
Connor De Phillippi	5.1
Tomas Scheckter	5
James Jakes	5
Alex Tagliani	0.4

Anything surprising? Let me know what you think!

-Matthew Hickey