For both Kurt Busch and Martin Truex Jr., they have won almost everywhere. Busch, is a former Daytona 500 champion while both are past Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season champions as well.

Now, they head to the Talladega Superspeedway hoping to check off a nagging track off their check list in Sunday’s GEICO 500 (2 p.m. ET/FOX/MRN/SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

Busch shows up at Talladega this week 0-for-36 at the sport’s biggest track – one of eight drivers ranked among the potential championship Top 16 who have not hoisted a trophy there. However, Busch certainly must feel some confidence as he is one of the best – statistically speaking – of all those on this week’s entry list, win or no-win.

Busch boasts the best driver rating at the track (90.5) for competitors with more than six starts and is second only to Chase Elliott (91.3) who has just six starts at Talladega. Busch is ranked first or second in four of the six primary Loop Data Statistical charts that evaluate past performance. His 19 top-10 showings are best in the field, as are his eight previous top-five showings. Only third-year series driver Daniel Suarez (15.0) has a better average finish than Busch (15.4) – and Suarez only has four starts compared to Busch’s 36.

Busch finished 14^th in the October Playoff race last year after leading 108 laps – the most laps led by a driver since Matt Kenseth led 142 laps and finished eighth in 2011. Busch has led laps in the last three Talladega races. His 116 laps led in that time is second only to three-time race winner Joey Logano, who led 129 laps and is defending winner of this spring race.

Truex, crossed another nagging track off his list in the last race at Richmond in earning his first career short track victory two weeks ago. Now, he’d like to expand his resume again this week with his first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series win at the other extreme – on one of NASCAR’s biggest tracks – Talladega Superspeedway.

Although the 2017 series champion won three consecutive NASCAR XFINITY Series races at Talladega from 2004-06, he has only a pair of top-five finishes in 28 Monster Energy Series starts there and has crashed out 13 times, most among the series’ top 16 ranked drivers. Truex’s best work at Talladega is a fifth-place finish – twice – in the fall, 2006, and the spring, 2015. He won the pole position there in October of 2016.

Certainly, the Richmond win – after leading a race best 186 laps – was a huge confidence boost in his first year with Joe Gibbs Racing, a team that’s collected six wins through the season’s opening nine races. And having checked off one major item on his bucket list at Richmond, confidence will not be a problem.

“I don’t think anyone really knows what to expect going into Talladega this week,’’ Truex said. “It’s going to be really fast is all I know.