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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The quarterfinal round -- or as NASCAR calls it, the Round of 12 -- of the Chase for the Sprint Cup could be called the half-and-half round.Half of the field of 12 are former champions: Matt Kenseth (2003), Kurt Busch (2004), Jimmie Johnson (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013), Brad Keselowski (2012), Kevin Harvick (2014) and Kyle Busch (2015).Half of the field of 12 have never won a title: Martin Truex Jr., Joey Logano, Chase Elliott, Denny Hamlin, Carl Edwards and Austin Dillon.Elliott and Dillon have never even won a Cup race. Johnson leads all drivers with 77 career wins.By manufacturer, its fairly even: Five Toyotas, five Chevrolets and two Fords.Heres a look at their chances of advancing to the Round of 8 as every driver left starts even with 3,000 points:1. Martin Truex Jr.Furniture Row Racing No. 78 ToyotaFirst-round wins: 2First-round points: 2,131 (1st)Why he will advance: Simple. Hes been the most dominant driver as of late, having won three of the past five races.Why he wont: Remember all those near-wins and bad luck he had in the first 24 races? It can return in an instant.2. Kevin HarvickStewart-Haas Racing No. 4 ChevroletFirst-round wins: 1First-round points: 2,075 (12th)Why he will advance: The closer knows how to get it done.Why he wont: This team certainly isnt immune to bad pit stops, mechanical failures and a fuel-mileage miscalculation.3. Kyle BuschJoe Gibbs Racing No. 18 ToyotaFirst-round wins: 0First-round points: 2,125 (2nd)Why he will advance: This team is quietly running well. Wait, that was last years comment at this time. Still works.Why he wont: There always is a chance of getting caught up in a mess at Talladega, and no one knows that better than Busch, who in 2014 seemed comfortably in the semifinal round only to get turned from behind while running in the back.4. Matt KensethJoe Gibbs Racing No. 20 ToyotaFirst-round wins: 0First-round points: 2,114 (4th)Why he will advance: Kenseth is determined not to have a repeat of 2015. And he has a better chance to win Talladega than a year ago.Why he wont: This team has been streaky this year with three or four top-10 races and then three-race stretches outside the top-10. He posted top-10 finishes in each race of the first round.5. Joey LoganoTeam Penske No. 22 FordFirst-round wins: 0First-round points: 2,108 (5th)Why he will advance: He wont do anything to beat himself.Why he wont: Ford is just not there this year.6. Chase ElliottHendrick Motorsports No. 24 ChevroletFirst-round wins: 0First-round points: 2,106 (6th)Why he will advance: He didnt crack under the pressure of the first round, so no reason to think he will this round. He had top-10s at Charlotte, Kansas and Talladega earlier this year.Why he wont: Sometimes experience matters, and in this situation, it does.7. Brad KeselowskiTeam Penske No. 2 FordFirst-round wins: 0First-round points: 2,125 (3rd)Why he will advance: He knows when to make the move he needs at the critical moment.Why he wont:?He thinks he knows when to make the move he needs at the critical moment -- and it costs him.8. Kurt BuschStewart-Haas Racing No. 41 ChevroletFirst-round wins: 0First-round points: 2,093 (10th)Why he will advance: Busch has a way of getting the job done when you dont think he will.Why he wont: This team has not seemed to capture the strength and speed that Harvick has.9. Denny HamlinJoe Gibbs Racing No. 11 ToyotaFirst-round wins: 0First-round points: 2,103 (8th)Why he will advance: Hes done it twice before.Why he wont: You might think the Daytona 500 winner would have an advantage at Talladega, but he finished 31st and 17th, respectively, in the two restrictor-plate races since that big win.10. Carl EdwardsJoe Gibbs Racing No. 19 ToyotaFirst-round wins: 0First-round points: 2,095 (9th)Why he will advance: Edwards and crew chief Dave Rogers have enough experience to rebound from a poor first round.Why he wont: Because of their experience, Edwards and Rogers will out-think themselves and tune themselves out of races.11. Jimmie JohnsonHendrick Motorsports No. 48 ChevroletFirst-round wins: 0First-round points: 2,105 (7th)Why he will advance: He has returned pretty much to form, having led 208 laps in the first round.Why he wont: The team beat itself twice in the first round and recovered. It wont be so easy in this round to overcome errors.12. Austin DillonRichard Childress Racing No. 3 ChevroletFirst-round wins: 0First-round points: 2,085 (11th)Why he will advance: Sometimes destiny just goes your way.Why he wont: Hasnt had the performance necessary to show he will be in the top eight. Cheap Shoes From China . 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Argentina will try to put the failure of past David Cup campaigns behind it when it goes for its first title in its fifth finals appearance against Croatia in November.The Argentines, who previously lost in the finals in 1981, 2006, 2008 and 2011, got another shot at the trophy after Leonardo Mayer sealed his teams thrilling 3-2 win over defending champion Britain by beating Dan Evans in the deciding match of their semifinal tie on Sunday.Croatia advanced to the Davis Cup final for only the second time with Marin Cilics straight-set win over Frances Richard Gasquet, which gave his side an unassailable 3-1 lead over the French with one singles rubber left to play.Argentina is one of four countries, along with Belgium, India and Romania, that has yet to win the Davis Cup after reaching more than one final. The Argentines, however, have been on the losing end in championship rubbers more than anyone else, losing to Spain twice (2008, 2011), Russia (2006) and the United States (1981).Croatia, which beat Slovakia to win the title in 2005, will host the finals from Nov. 25-27.In front of a home crowd in Glasgow, Scotland, Andy Murray ensured that Britains semifinal against Argentina would go to the deciding match when he breezed past Guido Pella in straight sets in the opening singles match on Sunday, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3.Evans expected to face Juan Martin del Potro, who beat Andy Murray on Friday, in the decider, but the former U.S. Open champion did not want to risk his fragile body after wrist injuries earlier in the year, so Mayer was named as a last-minute substitution.Mayer, who is ranked 114th, then rallied to defeat the 53rd-ranked Evans 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4.Leos match was something we believed could happen, but I think it was a great effort from his part after playing a little nervous in the first set, Argentina captain Daniel Orsanic said..dddddddddddd.In Zadar, Croatia, Cilic beat Gasquet 6-3, 6-2, 7-5 in the first singles match on Sunday to clinch the tie for the hosts.Cilic, the 2014 U.S. Open champion, won both of his singles matches and teamed up with Ivan Dodig on Saturday to stun top-ranked doubles pair Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert.Marin Draganja replaced Borna Coric for the meaningless final rubber and lost 6-4, 6-4 to Lucas Pouille.We are still pinching ourselves, thats how excited we are with the result, Croatia captain Zelko Krajan said.Nine-time champion France played without Gael Monfils and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who were both ruled out by knee problems.In other results, Jan-Lennard Struff defeated Hubert Hurkacz 7-6 (4), 6-4, 6-1 to preserve Germanys World Group status with a 3-2 win over Poland in their playoff.Earlier, Marcin Matkowski upset Florian Mayer 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 as Poland came from 2-0 down to level the tie.Russia is also returning to the top level of the Davis Cup for the first time since 2012 after beating Kazakhstan 3-1.The schedule was backed up due to rain on Friday, leaving four potential matches to play Sunday. Kazakhstans Mikhail Kukushkin beat Russias Evgeny Donskoy to level the tie at 1-1 in the first match of the day, but Russia captured the doubles and then sealed the win when Andrei Kuznetsov beat Kukushkin 6-1, 6-2, 6-2.A Swiss team lacking stars Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka came back to defeat Uzbekistan in their World Group playoff 3-2, with 507th-ranked Antoine Bellier securing the final point with a 6-2, 6-4, 6-7 (8), 6-3 win over Jurabek Karimov.The other teams returning to the World Group next year after winning playoffs this weekend are Spain, Belgium, Australia, Canada and Japan. ' ' '