With no Cup Series race this Easter weekend, let’s dream wildly. Who would win in a Cup Series race that only included winless drivers?

Hundreds of drivers have competed in the Cup Series and never gotten to experience the thrill of winning a race and we wanted to figure out who could be the best of them all.

Is it G.C. Spencer, who has the most second-place finishes of any winless driver? Cyde Lynn, who had 73 top 10s in his career? Or is it Larry Thomas, who had 56 top 10s in just over 120 Cup starts before he was killed in a non-racing car crash in 1965?

Maybe it’s someone like Alex Bowman or Daniel Suarez, two guys who are currently competing in the Cup Series.

Since NASCAR’s charter system guarantees 36 teams entry into each Cup Series race, we dug through Racing Reference and found 36 of the best drivers* in NASCAR history without a Cup win to their credit with the completely impossible idea of pitting them against each other at a track like Martinsville or Bristol in relatively equal equipment.

It’s a fun thought exercise. Especially when there’s no racing to watch. Here’s our field of 36 drivers in the race that’s guaranteed to have a first-time winner. Who do you think would take the checkered flag?

(*To be considered, drivers had to compete in more than two seasons of Cup competition. Sorry William Byron. You’ll probably win at some point anyway.)

Buddy Arrington

Arrington had 103 top-10 finishes in 560 starts. While he had 10 top-10 finishes in a season twice, his best points season came in 1982 when he was seventh in the standings. Arrington led just 14 laps in his Cup Series career.

Walter Ballard

Ballard finished in the top 10 of the points standings from 1971-1973. His best season in the points came in 1972 when he finished sixth despite having an average finish of 18th. He had 34 top 10s in 175 starts.

Herman Beam

Beam had 57 top 10s in 194 starts. He was fourth in the 1959 standings when he has 12 top 10s in 30 races. He had just three top-five finishes.

View photos Had the 2012 Daytona 500 been called after Juan Pablo Montoya hit a jet drier, Dave Blaney would be a Cup Series winner. (Getty Images) More

Dave Blaney

Blaney has just 28 top 10 finishes and finished inside the top 20 of the points standings just once. But he didn’t arrive to the Cup Series full-time until he was 37 and drove just one full season with a top-tier team.

Mike Bliss

Bliss won the 2002 Truck Series title and drove just one full season in the Cup Series. He scored seven top-10 finishes in his 179 starts across 20 seasons and finished fourth at Richmond in 2004 in his third and final start for Joe Gibbs Racing.

Todd Bodine

Bodine had just 21 top 10s in 241 career Cup starts and never finished higher than 20th in the points. He had much more success in the Truck and Xfinity Series. Bodine won two Truck titles and combined for 37 wins in the two lower series.

View photos Alex Bowman took over the No. 88 car for Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 2018. (AP) More

Alex Bowman

Bowman has 14 top-10 finishes in 126 starts. Though, as you likely know, he spent the first 71 starts of his career with BK Racing and Tommy Baldwin Racing. He hasn’t scored a top-10 finish through the first nine races of 2019.

Neil Castles

Castles had 178 top-10 finishes and 51 top-five finishes in 498 career starts. He also scored 26 top-five finishes in 1969 and 1970 yet never won a race. Crazily enough, he only led laps in three of his top-five finishes.

Richard Childress

The Hall of Fame car owner had 76 top 10s in his 285 starts. He finished in the top five in six different races and was fifth in the 1975 points standings. While Childress might have snagged a win in the 1980s had he kept driving, he made a pretty good decision to hire a guy named Dale Earnhardt to drive his car.

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