Richmond
If history is any guide, some of your top-10-in-points drivers are going to stink out loud in Saturday's race at RIR.
Then you have the list of winners from the past seven Cup races there: Jeremy Mayfield, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Ryan Newman, Joe Nemechek, Matt Kenseth, Tony Stewart and Ricky Rudd. If you counted right, that's seven different winners.
So who do you like in Saturday night's race? One of the past winners? One of the four guys who haven't done very well here?
Me? I'd like to see one of the Virginia drivers (Sadler, Rudd or Jeff Burton) win it. Of those three, I'll go with Burton. He's won there once before, and he's had three top 5s there in four races in 2002 and 2003. (I had to look it up, in case you're wondering, like I do with all the stats here.)
Here's another dark horse: Rusty Wallace. He's got more modern-era Richmond wins -- six -- than any other driver. 'Course, the most recent one was in 1997.
So what's the concensus around Spotter-ville?
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