26 down - 10 to go

In February, Bench Racing's pre-season picks were blogged. With the first twenty-six races in the books, I thought it might be good to revisit how awful we were in our predictions. The jury is still out on some of them because 10 races remain in the year.

Daytona 500 winner:

• BT - Kasey Kahne - Grabbed a twin win but that's as close as he got
• TMC - Smoke - Um, 22nd. NEXT!

Cup Champ:

• BT - Mark Martin - Gotta be in it to win it. Enjoy playing cards with teammate Dale Jr. the next 10 weeks.
• TMC - Denny Hamlin - So far, so good.

Chasers:

BT - 75% - Pretty good

1. Mark Martin - Miss
   
2. Smoke - Hit
   
3. Cuzzin - Hit
   
4. Gordo - Hit
   
5. Harvick - Hit
   
6. 4x champ - Hit
7. Kasey Kahne - Miss
   
8. Kenseth - Hit
   
9. Hamlin - Hit
   
10. Rowdy - Hit
    
11. Kurt - Hit
12. Montoya - Miss
    

TMC - 67%

1. JJ - Hit
2. Gordon - Hit
3. Martin - Miss
   
4. Smoke - Hit
   
5. Cuzzin - Hit
   
6. Hamlin - Hit
   
7. Rowdy - Hit
   
8. The Biff - Hit
   
9. Kurt - Hit
   
10. Kasey - Miss
    
11. Truex - What was I thinking? - Miss
    
12. JoLo - Miss
    

Underachiever

• BT: Dale Jr, Jamie Mc, T-Rex, Keselousy, and Danica (Nationwide, but had to mention anyway) - Except for Jamie, he nailed it. McMurray has had a career year.
  
• TMC: Brian Vickers, Clint Bowyer - Hate to pick on Vickers because of his medical situaton, but he was headed nowhere anyway after an overachieving 2009. So I say WIN. Totally whiffed on Bowyer.
  

Overachiever

• BT: JoLo
• TMC: Marcos Ambrose
• FAIL for both of us.
  

Most Improved

• BT: Kevin Harvick - Huge win
  
• TMC: Scott Speed - Huge slip away into the shadows with damaged pride after this colossal blunder
  

Penthouse to Outhouse

• BT: Greg Biffle, Brian Vickers - 50/50
  
• TMC: Ryan Newman, David Reutimann- Flyin Ryan got his 1st win for Stewart-Haas and Reuty got a legit win for MWR to silence critics such as me for his 2009 Coke 600 win. So I claim a WIN.
  

TMC