Thursday, July 7, 2011

Pick a partner: The list of drivers who will pair up at Daytona

Like it or not, the two-car draft is a must at Daytona International Speedway and will be a huge storyline in Saturday night's Coke Zero 400. According to Jeff Gordon, he picked his partner�long before he arrived in�Daytona and suspected most other drivers did, too.

Here is the list of drivers who will pair up. Some are obvious; some not so much.

Teammates:

? Jeff Gordon and Mark Martin
? Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Jimmie Johnson
? Kyle Busch and Joey Logano
? Brian Vickers and Kasey Kahne
? Marcos Ambrose and AJ Allmendinger
? Kurt Busch and Brad Keselowski
? Jamie McMurray and Juan Pablo Montoya
? Kevin Harvick and Paul Menard
? David Ragan and Matt Kenseth
? Jeff Burton and Clint Bowyer
? Greg Biffle and Carl Edwards
? Martin Truex Jr. and David Reutimann

Non-teammates:

? Denny Hamlin and Ryan Newman
(Explanation: These two worked well together at Talladega; also, Joe Gibbs Racing is a three-car team, and Hamlin is the odd-man out, though that doesn't explain why Newman isn't pairing up with his only teammate, Tony Stewart.)

? Tony Stewart and David Gilliland
(Explanation: It may seem odd ? a two-time series champion pairing with a journeyman who's never won a Cup race ? but like Hamlin and Newman, Stewart and Gilliland worked together at Talladega.)

? Bobby Labonte and Terry Labonte
(Explanation: They come from the same womb, though this pairing may�not materialize as Bobby Labonte will likely work with Casey Mears, too.)

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