Roush Fenway

The Daytona 500 means the Sprint Cup Series is starting for another long run. The NASCAR season runs from now until mid-November and TheSportsNotebook will be on the scene. Now as the editor, I’m going to admit I’m not remotely qualified to talk NASCAR (well, critics would say I’m not qualified to talk baseball, basketball, football or hockey either, but at least I can fake it there). But my brother Bill is, and he was gracious enough to spend some time with me this week going over the Top 20 drivers from last year’s Sprint Cup standings, offering insights, opinions and generally showing a lot of us that NASCAR drivers really need to do more than just turn left. Here’s a summation of the Top 20, with Bill’s insights mixed in.