For 2010, ESPN's Stock Car Challenge, in association with Jayski, has a brand new format and it's going to be a lot of fun to play, especially with so many potential team combinations for every Sprint Cup race. All you need to do is pick three drivers from Group "A" and two from Group "B". It looks like it will be pretty easy to pick your team, yet getting the strongest combination will be no easy trick. That's where, hopefully, "The Guru" can come to the rescue with my weekly race previews and two weekly chats -- Wednesdays from 3 to 4 p.m. ET and then every race day, the latter of which will feature my exclusive crew chief notes. I'm fired up for the new season to begin and look forward to working with all my fantasy racing friends again.

Now, let's drop the hammer on the Daytona 500.

GROUP A

In Group A there are 15 drivers and, as you would suspect, there's not a bow-wow in the bunch. Each one of them is capable of running at least in the top-10. But who are the top three? Who are the guys with the best chance to win NASCAR's biggest race?

Mark Martin is ranked first in my Group A. With the bigger restrictor plate, this race will be more about handling than it normally is and, unlike Talladega, the pack will break up during long green flag runs. So, when it comes to making great adjustments during the race Martin and his crew chief Alan Gustafson are usually running better at the end than they did in the early laps. The 51-year-old driver has the speed and has burning to win the 500 since barely getting beat in 2007. More

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