Who is the next driver with a significant winless streak to snap it?

Nate Ryan: Aric Almirola (125-race winless streak) needs to follow through quickly on his early season speed to stamp this as a breakthrough season.

Dustin Long: Paul Menard (238-race winless streak). He will give the Wood Brothers’ their 100th Cup win.

Daniel McFadin: Among Cup drivers on the list who have wins, I’m going with Aric Almirola (125-race winless streak). He’s shown the most consistency and straight up speed, having not finished worse than 14th this year. If not for multiple speeding penalties at Martinsville, it’s possible he could have wound up in the top five for the first time.

Jerry Bonkowski: This is a tough one. My inclination is to pick Chase Elliott (83-race winless streak), but instead I’m going with Jamie McMurray (154-race winless streak). He has at least one win in him this season, I believe, most likely at a place like Richmond or Charlotte or Sonoma. Jamie is l-o-n-g overdue for a win.

What has been the biggest surprise after the first six races of the season?

Nate Ryan: The strength of the Fords. It seemed as if Kevin Harvick was building something toward the end of 2017, but the across-the-board excellence of Team Penske and Harvick’s Stewart-Haas Racing teammates wasn’t foreseen.

Dustin Long: Performance of Ford this season, particularly the teams of Stewart-Haas Racing and Team Penske.

Daniel McFadin: Kyle Larson is the only Chevrolet driver with multiple top-five finishes (two). Four Chevy drivers have one top five, but three of those came in the Daytona 500.

Jerry Bonkowski: The slow start of Hendrick Motorsports. After six races, none of its four drivers are in the top 10. The closest is Alex Bowman (14th), but he’s been off to a slow start, as have been his three teammates: Jimmie Johnson (17th), Chase Elliott (18th) and William Byron (20th). It’s almost as if HMS has been a forgotten entity through the first one-sixth of the 36-race season.

Who is a driver you think that is under the radar but is worthy of more attention based on their performance this season?

Nate Ryan: No one jumps out. Everyone seems to be receiving the appropriate amount of exposure based on their rankings. It’s been well documented which drivers have been surprises.

Dustin Long: Ryan Blaney. Four top 10s in six starts and has only one finish outside the top 15 in his move from the Wood Brothers to Team Penske.

Daniel McFadin: Joey Logano. Only three drivers have finished in the top 10 in five of six races this year and he’s one of them. The others are Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. The No. 22 team seems to be on the right path after their disastrous 2017 season. He has two top fives this year, one less than he had at this point last season.

Jerry Bonkowski: Joey Logano has been flying under the radar, for sure. Ask most NASCAR fans, and I bet few would be able to correctly guess he’s in fourth place in the Cup standings after Martinsville, just 25 points out of first place. I did an unscientific poll with three of my friends, and two believed Logano to be between 11th and 15th, while the third picked him as eighth or ninth in the standings. Logano may be the Rodney Dangerfield of NASCAR right now, but I guarantee he’ll get a lot more respect going forward over the next 5-10 races.