NASCAR's most likely 2011 Cup chasers
The 2011 NASCAR season begins with this weekend's Daytona 500. Charles Bradley runs through those most likely to be in the hunt for the title 35 races later
And so it begins, the 26-chapter story to decide who qualifies for the 'Chase' to be in with a chance of winning the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup.
At each race there will be 43 wannabes, among them 31 shoulda, woulda, coulda-bes. But in the end only 12 will be allowed to fight for the title in the final 10 races. Ten of those will qualify by rights, plus the two most-winning 'wild cards' who didn't.
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Charles Bradley is Motorsport.com’s Global Editor in Chief. After spending five years in the aerospace industry in his native North Wales, while working weekends as a freelance writer at racetracks around the UK, Charles joined the staff of Motoring News in the heart of London. He transferred to the nascent Autosport.com team in 2000 before transitioning to the magazine, becoming its Editor between 2011 and 2014. Charles then upped sticks to work in America, as Motorsport.com’s Editor in Chief, where he created the multi-national and multi-lingual editorial team that quickly became the world’s most-read motorsport website. He was instrumental in delivering three of the biggest Global F1 Fan Surveys in sports history and is also a multiple award-winning scriptwriter. Charles is an overseas member of the Guild of Motoring Writers. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife Helen – and a cat that’s named after Serbia’s top football club.
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