NASCAR at Daytona 2016: Top Sleepers to Watch in Great American Race

It seems like we were just crowning Kyle Busch with his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship and watching Jeff Gordon ride off into the sunset. Yet drivers are only a few days away from firing up the engines on the shores of Daytona Beach, Florida.  The 58th running of the Daytona 500 is next weekend, and it kicks off the 36-race, nine-month marathon that is the Sprint Cup Series schedule.  The headliners are usually the favorites in the sport's version of the Super Bowl, as it’s the once-a-year opportunity to cement a legacy among NASCAR greats. But the nature of restrictor-plate racing that packs nearly all cars together throughout allows dark horses to lurk late.  Trevor Bayne took the checkered flag in the 20...

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