Veteran racer John Andretti says he'd like to compete in both the Daytona and Indianapolis 500s in 2010 -- as he has the past two years -- but he won't return to Front Row Motorsports this season for a similar schedule as last year.

"I'm going to be in Daytona, in the Daytona 500, but with what team how all that will play out is still to be determined, though this week should get something finalized," Andretti said Monday. "The focus is to do some other races, but the second major focus after the Daytona 500 is the Indy 500, similar to the same program I did in 2008, kinda free bird."

John Andretti, who in 1994 became the first driver to complete a same-day "double" in the Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600 Cup race at Charlotte, said he hoped to possibly do some additional Cup races in a third Front Row car.

In 2008 Andretti made three Cup starts in 10 attempts, including the Daytona 500 for Bob Jenkins and two in the Truck Series for Billy Ballew. He left Jenkins in May to do five Indy Racing League events for Marty Roth, including the Indy 500. Andretti scored Roth Racing's best finish, 11th, at Iowa Speedway.

Travis Kvapil, the 2003 Truck Series champion, last week said on Sirius Speedway that he had a full-time Cup Series ride in 2010 with Front Row. The show's Web site also reported, according to unnamed sources, that Kevin Conway would drive owner Jenkins' second car. Conway has never started a Cup race but has 25 starts in the Nationwide Series and one in the Truck Series.

Last month NASCAR announced a new qualifying format for the season-opening Budweiser Shootout event that kicks off Speedweeks at Daytona. Andretti is eligible, as the winner of Daytona's 1997 mid-summer Cup race, and hopes to use it as a bargaining chip.

"It may or may not be with the same team," Andretti said. "Obviously, I'd like to do both, and on paper and as we're talking it probably makes more sense if you did it with the same team. Though if you're doing a Daytona-only program, sometimes that's more than one organization wants to bite off.

"It's on the table and it's cool. The fact that I'm eligible, I'd like to take advantage of."

Andretti, who started 34 of 36 races last season in Jenkins' No. 34 Chevrolet and locked it into the top 35 in the owners' standings -- guaranteeing the car a starting position in at least this season's first five races -- took off two races in May 2009 to compete in his 10th Indy 500.

"Because the month of May is a long way off, believe it or not it's in the same process as Daytona," Andretti said. "Even though Daytona is closer, Cup teams are more flexible than the IndyCar teams in running extra cars or doing another program in those races, because they've typically got more staff, more depth and more cars.

"So we're working on that and looking at all the possibilities and trying to get something nailed down, which I'd like to do even earlier than last year, which was the first of April. So I'd like to shoot for the first of March."

Andretti, who in 1994 became the first driver to complete a same-day "double" in the Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600 Cup race at Charlotte, said he hoped to possibly do some additional Cup races for Jenkins in a third Front Row car.

"It would have to be, because the other two guys are going to do all the races -- though I don't know all the details because I don't need to know and I don't like to talk out of school," Andretti said. "I'd like to do a variety of races, because that keeps me happy, too. We'll probably do some racing together at Front Row this year because Bob and I have talked about that, and he knows there are certain events I really want to run in.

"It's not going to be a whole bunch of them because it's not fair to do them cherry-picking through the whole year while someone else has to do all the legwork. It's in the discussion stages and it's got to work for them as well as me, but obviously the door is wide open."