Check out a short list of favorites for Sunday's Samsung/Radio Shack 500 at Ft. Worth, Texas.:

	Burton

Jeff Burton
A pair of top-10 finishes in the first three races and two races just outside puts him ninth in the points standings going into the seventh race of the season; best result was sixth at North Carolina Speedway, a week after a 12th in the Daytona 500; recorded his first career Winston Cup victory at Texas Motor Speedway in the inaugural 1997 race; also was second to Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 2000.

Ward Burton
Some disappointing results after winning the season-opening Daytona 500 in February; that is one of two top-10 finishes in six starts; seventh at Atlanta Motor Speedway was his other good run; decreased in the standings down to 11th place.

Kurt Busch
Coming off his first career Winston Cup victory scored at Bristol Motor Speedway two weeks ago; at 23, became the youngest winner on the circuit since Jeff Gordon captured the 1994 Coca-Cola 600 as a 22-year old; past veteran Jimmy Spencer after the two bumped with 55 laps to run; two top-five finishes places him fifth in the standings, three points ahead of Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Good things seem to happen to Dale Jr. and his teammate at Texas Motor Speedway; in two Winston Cup starts at the track, he won a pole last year en route to an eighth-place finish and took his first career checkered flag in his rookie season of 2000; last year, he led 108 laps before a late pit cycle pushed him back in the field; he led a total of 214 laps in his two races in Texas; also posted his first Busch series victory here in 1998; consistent runs in the past three races propelled him to sixth in the series standings, 140 points out of first place; the first three races resulted in finishes of 15th and lower; last three starts were a runner-up in Atlanta, and fourth-place outings at Darlington Raceway and Bristol Motor Speedway (both started 23rd).

Jeff Gordon
Texas Motor Speedway was one track he has not fared particularly well at until a fifth-place finish last year; he was 30th in 1997, 31st in 1998, 43rd and last in 1999 and 25th in 2000; modest results by his standards in the first six races, with seventh as highest finish in the second race of the year at North Carolina Speedway; finished outside the top 15 positions in three of the past four races; his streak of not finishing in the top five reached a career-high 14 races; the four-time Winston Cup champion has not recorded a top-five finish since winning at Kansas Speedway last September; this will be his 300th career Winston Cup race; made his first start in the 1992 season finale at Atlanta.

	Jarrett

Dale Jarrett
Not a good start to the season, but comes to Texas Motor Speedway as the defending race champion; led seven times, the last with six laps remaining when he past and deprived Johnny Benson of his first career victory; also was runner-up in Texas in 1997 and again in 1999; top finish this year was seventh in Las Vegas; only 24th in the series points standings.

Jimmie Johnson
Impressive runs in the last four races after rather slow initial starts, despite taking the pole for the Daytona 500; two sixth-place finishes, one seventh and a career-high third in Atlanta; moved up from as low as 21st five races ago to fourth in the current standings; 118 points behind leader Sterling Marlin.

Bobby Labonte
This race is a homecoming of sorts for the 2000 NASCAR Winston Cup champion, a native of Corpus Christi; a year ago at Texas Motor Speedway, he was focused on finding victory lane, given his record in the previous four starts, but lasted only 149 laps when an engine failure relegated him to a 42nd; finished third the previous two years and three of four starts; the lowest result at the track was eighth in 1998; a third place at Darlington and fifth at Bristol Motor Speedway two weeks ago are the only top-five performances; is long way out of the top 10 in the standings in 16th.

Terry Labonte
Holder of qualifying (2000) and race (1999) speed records at the Texas Motor Speedway oval; race winner in 1999 and was eighth two years ago after starting from the pole; last year, he missed out on a top-10 finish in 13th; without a top-10 finish in six races this year, which puts him a mere 21st in the standings; the Labonte brothers are the only drivers that have finished in the top 10 in four of the five Winston Cup races at Texas Motor Speedway; both finished outside the top 10 in 2001.

Sterling Marlin
The short track at Bristol Motor Speedway was the site of his first finish outside the top 10 this year -- 19th; but two wins, a runner-up and two more top-10 results kept him first in the series standings with 931 points, 99 more than Matt Kenseth; a late accident in this race last year took him out six laps short of the finish line; performances to start the season are best in his career.

Mark Martin
Consistent efforts to start the season in a positive way; finished three times in the top 10 and just missed another with an 11th place at Bristol in the last race; stands eighth in the points, 163 behind leader Sterling Marlin; has had some success at Texas Motor Speedway, winning the Winston Cup race in 1998 and Busch races in 1997 and 1999; last year, he grabbed a ninth-place finish and was 11th in 2000.

	Stewart

Tony Stewart
Citing his strong start to the 2002 NASCAR season and a shot at $1 million bonus by competing in the May 26 Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte, he has decided not to race in the Indianapolis 500 -- a double duty he has done the past two years with relative success; his first foray put him in the record books as he logged the most racing miles in one day by a race car driver; broke his own record in 2001, when he completed the full race distance in both events; finished sixth at Texas in his 1999 rookie season and was ninth the following year; in the past season, he was not a factor, finishing 23rd.

Rusty Wallace
Has not finished lower than 18th in the first six events this year; strong performances in all, with four top-10 finishes and an 11th-place showing; the results have him third in the standings, 116 points behind Sterling Marlin; placed fourth at Texas Motor Speedway in 1999 and 2000; last season, he was 12th.