Predicting a Daytona 500 winner is never going to be an easy exercise.
It's difficult to go by recent performances in NASCAR's season-opening race, which is set for a 2:30 p.m. start Sunday at Daytona International Speedway, because there haven't been back-to-back winners since 1994 and '95, when Sterling Marlin pulled it off.
And finding a driver who's been consistently dominant isn't easy, either. Denny Hamlin, who won last year and in 2016, is the only repeat winner over the last eight seasons. And there have been huge surprises in recent years. Remember Austin Dillon in 2018, Trevor Bayne in 2011 and Jamie McMurray in 2010?
But try and predict a winner we must:
