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The Top Thirty-Five Trauma

Let's face it, there are 61 cars at Daytona this year attempting to make the Daytona 500. Seven of eight of these are part-time or relatively hopeless entries.

But there are around 51 full-time, extremely competitive entries this year running full-time. Only thirty-five will be guaranteed starting spots. And this seems just a little unfair. This was in a time when money was hard to come by, like finding a news story not about Anna Nicole Smith. So there were field fillers, and the worry was some really good teams could get upstaged.

But this year, which such a competitive deal, the top 35 rule should go out the win. So hard will the 16 teams or so fight for those seven/eight spots (depending on past champion's provisional) that all of these teams will likely miss one race or more.

And thus the top 35 teams from last year will likely have a leg up for the rest of the year too. Kyle Petty, though lord knows we love him, is not the same caliber as Dale Jarrett or Jeremy Mayfield. Yet, because he is already locked in, he's going to have an excellent chance to stay in the top 35, because there will be a huge gap between 35th and the 36th place driver, someone who has almost inevitably missed a race or two.

The top 35 rules needs to be scrapped....now.

But since it's here:

Getting In:

44- Dale Jarrett - Past Champion Can't Hurt

15- Paul Menard - Was solid last year.

Falling Out:

45 - Kyle Petty - No difference from last year

7 - Robby Gordon - New make = no success.

Meanwhile, good teams like David Reutimann, Jeremy Mayfield and Brian Vickers will have to wait until next year.