ESPN.com's Top 12 Drivers: Preseason

Updated: February 12, 2010, 1:43 PM ET
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ESPN.com writers Terry Blount, Ed Hinton, Ryan McGee, David Newton, Marty Smith and editors Joe Breeze and K. Lee Davis voted on where they thought NASCAR's top 12 drivers would finish the Sprint Cup season. A first-place vote is worth 12 points, a 12th-place vote is worth one.

Click on each driver and you will find updated outlook entries on each of their seasons.

ESPN.com Writers' Vote
Driver Blount Breeze Davis Hinton McGee Newton Smith TOTAL
1. Jimmie Johnson 10 12 12 12 12 12 12 82
2. Denny Hamlin 12 10 11 10 11 10 11 75
3. Mark Martin -- 11 5 8 8 9 10 51
4. Jeff Gordon 8 9 8 1 10 8 6 50
5. Kyle Busch 5 4 9 9 3 11 8 49
6. Carl Edwards 9 3 10 6 9 5 -- 42
7. Juan Pablo Montoya 11 6 6 11 -- -- 7 41
8. Kurt Busch 6 7 3 3 7 6 5 37
9. Tony Stewart 4 8 1 7 -- 7 -- 28
10. Matt Kenseth 7 1 8 4 2 2 -- 24
11. Greg Biffle -- 5 2 5 4 4 3 23
12. Kasey Kahne 2 2 4 -- -- 3 9 20