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The 10-race Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs begin Sunday at Chicagoland Speedway (3 p.m. ET, NBC Sports Network).
The 2017 champion will be crowned Nov. 19 in the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
A look at the 16-driver field in order of seed heading into the postseason.
1. Martin Truex Jr.
Age: 37. Born: Mayetta, N.J.
Team: Furniture Row Racing.
Car number: 78. Car make: Toyota.
Twitter handle: @MartinTruex_Jr
Championships: None
2017 STATISTICS
Wins: 4
Top 5s: 10
Top 10s: 17
Poles: 1
Playoff points: 2,053
Bonus points: 53
Odd fact: Truex has led nearly 300 more laps than any other driver this season.
Quote: 'With the way the system is set up, I don't know that you can have a favorite honestly. I mean, this has got to be the toughest championship in sports to win, without a question. With the eliminations, with one race for the championship at the end especially. You're not out there one‑on‑one. There's 39 other cars, and you're racing against three of them.'
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2. Kyle Larson
Age: 25. Born: Elk Grove, Calif.
Team: Chip Ganassi Racing.
Car number: 42. Car make: Chevrolet.
Twitter handle: @KyleLarsonRacin
Championships: None.
2017 Statistics
Wins: 4
Top 5s: 11
Top 10s: 15
Poles: 3
Playoff points: 2,033
Bonus points: 33
Odd fact: Larson co-owns sprint car team Larson Marks Racing with Justin Marks and has competed in more than a dozen events this year as a driver.
Quote: 'Our team has to do everything right in those first nine races to give ourselves a shot at Homestead. I think if we can get there, we would definitely have a very good shot as long as I stay cool and calm and don't get in the wall.”
3. Kyle Busch
Age: 32. Born: Las Vegas.
Team: Joe Gibbs Racing.
Car number: 18. Car make: Toyota.
Twitter handle: @KyleBusch
Championships: One (2015).
2017 STATISTICS
Wins: 2
Top 5s: 10
Top 10s: 16
Poles: 6
Playoff points: 2,029
Bonus points: 29
Odd fact: With his victory at Pocono Raceway this summer, Busch has now won a points race at every active Cup track except Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Quote: 'I look at all (10 tracks) as being really good tracks for us that we can contend at. If I look at two that are kind of worrisome, the two most worrisome tracks for me is Talladega and Texas, because of the repave, unknown there. The rest of them, I'm not worried at all. I feel like we're pretty good.”
4. Brad Keselowski
Age: 33. Born: Rochester Hills, Mich.
Team: Team Penske.
Car number: 2. Car make: Ford.
Twitter handle: @keselowski
Championships: One (2012).
2017 STATISTICS
Wins: 2
Top 5s: 11
Top 10s: 14
Poles: 2
Playoff points: 2,019
Bonus points: 19
Odd fact: Keselowski regularly blogs at his website bradracing.com, allowing fans to get more personal insights on a wide range of topics.
Quote: 'We have to win over the next generation and then monetize to them. That’s the biggest challenge for this sport. There are a lot of ideas for doing that, and I could go a lot longer on that piece, but monetizing millennials. You have to attract them and you have to monetize them.'
5. Jimmie Johnson
Age: 41. Born: El Cajon, Calif.
Team: Hendrick Motorsports
Car number: 48. Car make: Chevrolet.
Twitter handle: @JimmieJohnson
Championships: Seven (2006-10, 2013, 2016).
2017 STATISTICS
Wins: 3
Top 5s: 3
Top 10s: 8
Poles: 0
Playoff points: 2,017
Bonus points: 17
JOHNSON: Fueling up for run at record eighth championship
Odd fact: Johnson has won at every playoff track except Chicagoland. Of his 83 career wins, 48 have come at tracks being used in the playoffs.
Quote: 'I do think about (winning a record-breaking eighth championship) occasionally but the format really doesn’t allow you to do so. .. This playoff format to date — nobody knows, and it takes away from over-thinking it which is really nice.'
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6. Kevin Harvick
Age: 41. Born: Bakersfield, Calif.
Team: Stewart-Haas Racing.
Car number: 4. Car make: Ford.
Twitter handle: @KevinHarvick
Championships: One (2014).
2017 STATISTICS
Wins: 1
Top 5s: 8
Top 10s: 16
Poles: 4
Playoff points: 2,015
Bonus points: 15
Odd fact: Harvick and his wife DeLana founded and operate KHI Management, a full-service sports and celebrity-marketing agency representing some of the biggest names in NASCAR, UFC, PGA, motocross and the music industry.
Quote: “I’ve been fortunate to be on the side of going into the first week (of the playoffs) and thinking you’re gonna win the championship, and I’ve learned that’s how you think every year. But the one thing about it that I have learned is you better think about it one week at a time and not break down anything until you get there because you might be broke down before you even make it to the end.'
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7. Denny Hamlin
Age: 36. Born: Tampa, Fla.
Team: Joe Gibbs Racing.
Car number: 11. Car make: Toyota.
Twitter handle: @dennyhamlin
Championships: None.
2017 STATISTICS
Wins: 2
Top 5s: 11
Top 10s: 15
Poles: 0
Playoff points: 2,013
Bonus points: 13
Odd fact: Hamlin has made the playoff every year but one since he became a fulltime driver in 2006. The only exception was 2013 when he missed four races after breaking his back at Auto Club Speedway.
Quote: 'I think that's probably one of the biggest advantages that I have over other drivers, is I feel like I'm mentally tougher. I feel like I've gone through everything there is to go through in these playoffs. There's nothing that will surprise me, nothing that will shock me.'
8. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Age: 29. Born: Memphis.
Team: Roush Fenway Racing.
Car number: 17. Car make: Ford.
Twitter handle: @StenhouseJr
Championships: None.
2017 STATISTICS
Wins: 2
Top 5s: 4
Top 10s: 7
Poles: 1
Playoff points: 2,010
Bonus points: 10
Odd fact: Stenhouse scored his first two career wins in the Cup Series this season and both came at restrictor-plate tracks — Talladega Superspeedway and Daytona International Speedway.
Quote: 'Come playoffs, I don’t think the experience really has much to do with it. I think whether your team and your car and your package is better or not, I think that’s where the advantage comes in.'
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9. Ryan Blaney
Age: 23. Born: Cortland, Ohio.
Team: Wood Brothers Racing.
Car number: 21. Car make: Ford.
Twitter handle: @Blaney
Championships: None.
2017 STATISTICS
Wins: 1
Top 5s: 3
Top 10s: 9
Poles: 1
Playoff points: 2,008
Bonus points: 8
Odd fact: Blaney is the son of Dave Blaney, a sprint car Hall of Famer who also raced fulltime in the NASCAR Cup Series for 13 years. Ryan Blaney's uncle is Dale Blaney, a former college basketball star at West Virginia who switched to sprint car racing and became a six-time champion of the All Star Circuit of Champions.
Quote: 'I don’t really mind being called an underdog or dark horse and anything like that. That means if you exceed expectations you kind of know that it’s even that much cooler and better when you can do that.'
10. Chase Elliott
Age: 21. Born: Dawsonville, Ga.
Team: Hendrick Motorsports.
Car number: 24. Car make: Chevrolet.
Twitter handle: @chaseelliott
Championships: None.
2017 STATISTICS
Wins: 0
Top 5s: 6
Top 10s: 14
Poles: 1
Playoff points: 2,006
Bonus points: 6
Odd fact: Elliott is the son of NASCAR Hall of Famer Bill Elliott, who the Cup championship in 1988 and was named the series' most popular driver 16 times between 1984 and 2002.
Quote: 'I think consistency will carry you a pretty good distance in this (playoff format). I don't think consistency will get you to Homestead alone, but I do think consistency will carry you a good ways.'
11. Ryan Newman
Age: 39. Born: South Bend, Ind.
Team: Richard Childress Racing.
Car number: 31. Car make: Chevrolet.
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Twitter handle: @RyanJNewman
Championships: None.
2017 STATISTICS
Wins: 1
Top 5s: 6
Top 10s: 11
Poles: 0
Playoff points: 2,005
Bonus points: 5
Odd fact: Newman finished runner-up for the 2014 championship despite not winning a race that season.
Quote: “You definitely don’t want to sit there and say 'oh man, if they would have had this playoff system when I ran good in 2003 that I would have been the champion then.' But in the end, it doesn’t really matter. You’re giving us a set of rules at the beginning of the season and everybody has a fair shot.”
12. Kurt Busch
Age: 39. Born: Las Vegas.
Team: Stewart-Haas Racing.
Car number: 41. Car make: Ford.
Twitter handle: @KurtBusch
Championships: One (2004).
2017 STATISTICS
Wins: 1
Top 5s: 5
Top 10s: 13
Poles: 0
Playoff points: 2,005
Bonus points: 5
Odd fact: Busch was the first champion of NASCAR's 'playoff era,' winning the title as a 26-year-old in 2004.
Quote: 'I won a championship at a really young age and it surprised the NASCAR world; it surprised myself, but it was executed with great leadership from Jimmy Fennig, my team at Roush Racing and having basically the key ingredient — raw speed. Raw speed is what this new format is built around.'
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13. Kasey Kahne
Age: 37. Born: Enumclaw, Wash.
Team: Hendrick Motorsports.
Car number: 5. Car make: Chevrolet.
Twitter handle: @kaseykahne
Championships: None.
2017 STATISTICS
Wins: 1
Top 5s: 3
Top 10s: 4
Poles: 0
Playoff points: 2,005
Bonus points: 5
Odd fact: Kahne is racing his last season with Hendrick Motorsports and is still contemplating his options for next season.
Quote: 'Three or four days ago, I had this great plan to like do sprint cars, and see if I could do an IndyCar race or two, and do a couple of NASCAR races like the (Daytona) 500 and Brickyard, things like that. I thought that would be quite a dream and pretty awesome to do.'
14. Austin Dillon
Age: 27. Born: Lewisville, N.C.
Team: Richard Childress Racing.
Car number: 3. Car make: Chevrolet.
Twitter handle: @austindillon3
Championship: None.
2017 STATISTICS
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Wins: 1
Top 5s: 3
Top 10s: 4
Poles: 0
Playoff points: 2,005
Bonus points: 5
Odd fact: Dillon, the grandson of team owner Richard Childress, won the Camping World Truck championship in 2011 and the Xfinity Series championship in 2013.
Quote: 'Points racing for me is fun because I have done it winning the Truck and Xfinity championship, and I know what it is like to go to Homestead and having to run good. I have been in those situations before. I feel like it’s what you live for in NASCAR. Those races where your back is against the wall and you see if you can make it happen when it counts.'
15. Matt Kenseth
Age: 45. Born: Cambridge, Wis.
Team: Joe Gibbs Racing.
Car number: 20. Car make: Toyota.
Twitter handle: @mattkenseth
Championships: One (2003).
2017 STATISTICS
Wins: 0
Top 5s: 7
Top 10s: 12
Poles: 2
Playoff points: 2,005
Bonus points: 5
Odd fact: Kenseth will not return to Joe Gibbs Racing next season when Erik Jones will take over the No. 20 car. Kenseth's future plans are still to be determined.
Quote: 'I don't really like the term 'peaking' because I don't think you ever want to peak. Whenever you peak, that means you're going downhill on the backside of it. I feel like we definitely have more momentum and we're performing better than we were three or four months ago, which obviously you always want to be at your best, but you certainly want to be your best at the end of the year.”
16. Jamie McMurray
Age: 41. Born: Joplin, Mo.
Team: Chip Ganassi Racing.
Car number: 1. Car make: Chevrolet.
Twitter handle: @jamiemcmurray
Championships: None.
2017 STATISTICS
Wins: 0
Top 5s: 2
Top 10s: 13
Poles: 0
Playoff points: 2,003
Bonus points: 3
Odd fact: McMurray is one of just four drivers, along with A.J. Foyt, Mario Andretti and Jeff Gordon, to win the Daytona 500 and Rolex 24 at Daytona during their careers. He is also one of only three drivers to win both the Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400 in the same year. McMurray won both in 2010.
Quote: 'This has probably been the best year for me on the NASCAR side. Even though we haven’t won, we finished eighth in points (in the regular season). For our organization to have Kyle (Larson) second and we were eighth, it’s the best year for Chip Ganassi Racing. We were super consistent all year long in both cars.”
Contributing: Ellen J. Horrow
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