1. Tony Stewart  Against conventional wisdom, the Burger King car outran the Subway car at Daytona. If fat is fast, I’ll have a BK Triple Whopper with cheese meal to go, please. And you're darn right I'd like to super-size it.

2. Jimmie Johnson  New Lowe’s/Kobalt commercial:
Chad Knaus: “What are you doing out there, Jimmie?”
Jimmie: “Repairing the SAFER barrier and catchfencing, Chad.”

3. Jeff Gordon  Flame paint scheme fitting of Gordon’s Daytona run … as in “flaming out.”

4. Kurt Busch  Miller Lite car looked drank, crumpled and thrown away by the end of the night last weekend. Credit Kurt for weaving it to a top-5 finish, though.

5. Mark Martin  It was Mark Martin at Daytona. Seriously, what did you expect?

6. Kyle Busch  I wonder if Kyle really knew where he was going while walking around aimlessly after the wreck on Saturday night. He looked a little dazed and confused to me.

7. Kasey Kahne  Kasey to crew chief following the race: “No wonder we were having tire issues all weekend — those Goodyear Eagles had a strong cinnamon-y aftertaste. Hey … just what’s in those compounds anyway?”

8. Carl Edwards  Lost in the last-lap mayhem was Carl’s slick move through a wet Daytona infield at 188 mph. Youtube it. Awesome.

9. Matt Kenseth  At least we can’t use the old “fatherhood will slow him down” line. Kenseth’s been a daddy for a while. Won a championship and quite a few races in that time, too.

10. Denny Hamlin  Stat that blew my mind this week: Denny’s third-place run last Saturday was his first career top 5 in a points-paying race at Daytona.

11. Greg Biffle  You’ve got to figure that if Biffle never saw Daytona again he’d be OK with it.

12. Juan Pablo Montoya  Conversation overheard this week: “Put me in the third IRL car, Chip, and let Danica take over this single-car effort on the Cup side. Hey, be careful what you wish for, right?”

13. Ryan Newman  Krissie is praying Ryan doesn’t land the Bass Pro sponsorship, as he'll spend every free moment on the lake playing with his new toys.

14. David Reutimann  “Hey Martin, you think you could introduce me to Dale Earnhardt Jr.?”

15. Joey Logano  “Honest Kyle, all I saw was smoke, so I just remembered what Harry Hogge said and floored the sucker …”

Just off the lead pack: Marcos Ambrose, Clint Bowyer, Jeff Burton, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Elliott Sadler

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