DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The 60th Daytona 500 will include 40 NASCAR Cup Series drivers and more than 100,000 fans.
Here are 60 people to watch. The 40 drivers are ranked by starting order, and then there's a list of 20 more people who are expected to be at the track.
1. Alex Bowman: He knows leading after 200 laps is a lot tougher than leading the field to green. He ran the 2014 Daytona 500 and finished 23rd.
2. Denny Hamlin: His 31 career wins include the 2016 Daytona 500.
3. Ryan Blaney: He won his qualifying race Thursday, and many believe that if he wins, the party could be one of the better ones.
4. Chase Elliott: He nearly won last year before running out of gas. His crew chief, Alan Gustafson, desperately wants to win, having grown up in the Daytona area. This could be the biggest day in both of their careers.
5. Joey Logano: The Fords are strong, and Logano has Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s former spotter, T.J. Majors. That makes him the favorite, according to Earnhardt.
6. Kevin Harvick: He appears to have carried some of his swagger from late 2017 into 2018.
7. Darrell Wallace Jr.: He knows he will make history as the first African-American in Cup since Wendell Scott in 1971. He earned the ride thanks to a solid four-race run last year as a substitute for the injured Aric Almirola.
8. Erik Jones: A year older and a year wiser -- and maybe a year of more pressure, as he's the replacement for veteran Matt Kenseth.
9. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.: Stenhouse won two of the four restrictor-plate races last year, including last summer at Daytona. He has to be one of the most confident drivers coming into Sunday.
10. Clint Bowyer: He is willing to do what it takes to win. He once slid across the finish line on his roof.
11. Kurt Busch: Defending winner of the race, he has a new crew chief in Billy Scott, as well as many new crew members.
12. Kyle Busch: Many consider him the favorite to win the championship. Maybe they don't know this: No driver who finished second in the standings has gone on to win the title the following year since Tony Stewart won in 2002.
13. Ryan Newman: He is one of three drivers in the field who have raced against Dale Earnhardt in Cup (Mark Thompson and Kurt Busch are the others).
14. Austin Dillon: Giving up this spot because he went to a backup car, it has been 20 years since the 3 won the Daytona 500.
15. David Ragan: He finished fifth in his first Daytona 500 in 2007 and hasn't matched that since then.
16. Paul Menard: It's a new team this year for Menard, and FYI, Blaney has the Menard's store colors for this race -- not Menard.
17. Daniel Suarez: This Mexican driver is much more comfortable going into his second full Cup season.
18. Trevor Bayne: One of eight former Daytona 500 winners in the race along with Harvick, Newman, McMurray, Johnson, Logano, Hamlin and Kurt Busch, Bayne is still the youngest ever at 20 years, 1 day.
19. Jamie McMurray: He did a marathon in the offseason, and he had a pretty decent time, at 3 hours, 25 minutes, 14 seconds. That will be about the length of Sunday's 500.
20. AJ Allmendinger: He has won at Daytona -- in the Rolex 24 at Daytona in 2012.
21. Chris Buescher: This is a year when Buescher really needs to have a breakout season, and it starts with at least some consistency as he returns to the same ride for a second consecutive year.
22. Michael McDowell: He wasn't ready to quit after losing his ride to Kasey Kahne, and he landed a job at Front Row.
23. Ty Dillon: The sponsor signed an extension through 2020 for Dillon, who doesn't mind at all being on a satellite team to his grandfather's RCR organization instead of being in an in-house car.
24. Martin Truex Jr.: The defending champ is probably not sweating a mid-pack start. He probably wouldn't sweat a horrible finish, either, because his season won't be dictated by Sunday's result.
25. Brendan Gaughan: This team (Beard Motorsports) will do only restrictor-plate events, and Gaughan likes that schedule as he transitions to a part-time racing career.
26. Kasey Kahne: He hopes that going to a one-car team means four times the success after his release from Hendrick.
27. Jeffrey Earnhardt: His start on Sunday means an Earnhardt is in the race for the 40th consecutive year.
28. Danica Patrick: It's her last NASCAR race, and then she's off to the Indianapolis 500.
29. Justin Marks: He gets the nod in the No. 51 this week. Next week it will be rookie Harrison Rhodes.
30. D.J. Kennington: The Canadian racer raced his way into the Daytona 500 last year and finished 36th. It has been a much calmer week, as only 40 cars were entered.
31. Brad Keselowski: Trying to squeeze into a lane in the duel, he crashed and is going to a backup. Knowing Team Penske, it's just as good as the primary.
32. Corey LaJoie: He will share the TriStar Motorsports ride with Cole Whitt this year.
33. William Byron: He groomed himself for Cup racing by doing online's iRacing and then winning races at every step along the way.
34. Gray Gaulding: He found out just a week ago that he might get to race, so he's excited.
35. Jimmie Johnson: Looking for his third Daytona 500 win while on a quest for his eighth title, he should be happy if he doesn't wreck a third car this week.
36. Matt DiBenedetto: You might never have heard of him, but he finished ninth in the 2017 Daytona 500.
37. Aric Almirola: He's ready for the best opportunity of his career at Stewart-Haas Racing.
38. Kyle Larson: Larson is a fashionable pick to win the 2018 title. Don't change the pick if he doesn't have a good opening day.
39. David Gilliland: He says this 500 might be his last one.
40. Mark Thompson: He's 66 years old racing No. 66 to become the oldest driver to start the Daytona 500.
And 20 people to watch who aren't racing ...
41. Dale Earnhardt Jr.: He's going to give the command to drivers to start their engines, watch the race and then head to South Korea on Monday to be part of NBC's Olympic coverage.
42. Chipper Jones: A hometown hero of sorts for the area, as the first pick of the MLB draft in 1990, the future Hall of Famer will receive a warm welcome.
43. Peyton Manning: He's driving the pace car. Hopefully his buddy Dale Jr. taught him well. Manning also will have another friend with him: former wide receiver Brandon Stokley, whose stops included Indianapolis and Denver.
44. Aaron Rodgers: He watched from atop the Danica Patrick pit box on Thursday but seemed uncomfortable with the attention and declined to answer questions about being there.
45. Jeff Gordon: One of the three-man Daytona 500 broadcast booth, he's the most influential of the bunch as a four-time Cup champion.
46: AJ Foyt: The 1972 Daytona 500 winner and legendary driver makes any racing event better.
47. Charlize Theron: The actress is waving the green flag. She's known in these parts for portraying Daytona Beach-area serial killer Aileen Wuornos in "Monster."
48. Brian France: The NASCAR chairman often speaks at the prerace drivers' meeting. Last year, it was a little bit of a bizarre statement. His moves will be as unpredictable as the drivers on the track.
49. USAF Thunderbirds: Their flyover will be awesome.
50. Steve O'Donnell: If he's talking after the race, it will probably be about a controversial call. In other words, he hopes he isn't talking to the media after the race.
51. Barney Visser and Sherry Pollex: It's nice to see them at the track. Visser, the Cup series' defending champion owner, is back at the track after heart surgery in early November. Pollex, the longtime girlfriend of Truex, recently finished chemotherapy after a recurrence of ovarian cancer.
52. Engine tuners: Pick any engine tuner in the crowd, and watch them sweat, as NASCAR had a new rule mandating that they couldn't change engines at all during this race week.
53. Rascal Flatts: The band is doing a prerace concert.
54. Tyron Woodley: If NASCAR needs any help breaking up any fights, it could ask the UFC welterweight champ. He'll be at the track as a guest of Monster.
55. Cole Pearn: If nothing else, we'll see the 2017 champion crew chief wearing a T-shirt instead of a firesuit, which most crew chiefs do.
56. Ian Somerhalder: The "Vampire Diaries" actor is expected to be at the race.
57. Mike Smith: He attended high school in Daytona Beach, so people around here enjoy seeing the former Atlanta Falcons head coach and current Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive coordinator.
58. Olivia Holt: The actress and singer has appeared in various Disney series.
59. Rodney Sacks: Is the Monster Energy chairman going to be there? And if not, what does it mean about the future of the company's sponsorship?
60. Richard Petty: The best for last? He has won 200 races, and fans love to meet him.