I really like Hendrick here minus Byron. Think I'm going JJ and Bowman in cash. Super bad idea but
Harvick/JJ/Bowman/Reddick/Ty/McDowell seems good. Much better for SE. Need another dom for cash. Preece is gonna pass all those back cars but I dunno. I don't trust him.
Pretty sure I just saw the tractor trailer that carries Austin Dillion's car on the 64 East. Not sure what value this provides other than I thought it was cool since I am a true NASCAR fan now.
Hardvick was like Mercedes in f1 last two races unbeatable unless they make a mistake or get caught up in something on track. Still won't back next time out as surely he can't outclass the field 3 races in a row. Klye Bush if he priced over 10/1. Car seems to be gett3 better race by race.
Harvick isn't a good road course driver IMO, so he should struggle here. Chase/Truex/Blaney/McDowell are the best IMO.
Here's my XFin/Trucks notes
Daytona Road Course XFinity and Trucks preview
Both series have never raced on this course before and they're not allowed to practice for some reason so this will be a cluster****. Daytona is one of the easier road courses, so hopefully it won't be too hard for them to figure out. The hard thing is how you use your tires. I can see a lot of the less experienced drivers burning their tires up too quick. With stages pit strategy is always in effect.
For XFinity model I didn't have any Daytona history so I used road course history in general and gave some drivers boosts if they have experience in the track outside of this series. AJ Allmendinger has raced here a lot. I'm going to go back to the well with Haley. He was great last week and not pitting ended up screwing him. The normal pit rules are in effect this week so he should be okay. I'm also just gonna take a chance on some of the road course guys with big odds. Lally has 8 wins at this course. Pardus races here almost every week in a Miata.
Haley +2200 to win
Pardus +11000 to win
Lally + 4500 to win
Earl Bamber +4500
H2H:
Clements -115 over Annett [-139]
Haley -115 over Hemric [-144]
Haley -115 over Chastain [-122]
Allgaier -115 over Gragson [-129]
Trucks is a bigger concern. Most of the trucks racers are younger (18-19) with little to no road course experience. Even the veteran truck drivers only race on a road course once a year (Canada's mosport). People like Zane Smith, Tyler Ankrum, and Christian Eckes have simulators and iRacing rigs to work on, but I'm not going to trust it. My models won't even work for this race because of all the missing data, so these bets are more feel type bets.
Some notes:
- Ankrum finished 9th at Mosport last year and won the pole at Watkins Glen for a K&N Pro Series event. He switched truck chassis to one that finished fourth at mosport last year.
- Kris Wright is one of those road course ringers, but he has never raced in trucks. He finished 2nd here in the Rolex 24 LMP2 class and has a lot of experience on the Daytona Road Course. I personally have no idea how hard it is to race trucks, but his experience could be an advantage.
- Alex Tagliani is the other ringer. He's in a KMB truck and has 2 top 5s in 5 starts. He only races the road course in trucks and xfinity.
- Brett Moffitt, Todd Gililiand, and Sheldon Creed are good road course truck racers. Moffit has 1 win and 2 top 5's and he's running the same chassis as his 2019 win. Creed is using the 2018 winning chassis. Gililand has run good but has had some bad luck. In 2018 he was leading going into the final turn until his teammate, Gragson, crashed him.
- Derek Kraus has some trucks road course experience in the K&N Pro Series West at Sonoma. He also won the Trans Am Series there in 2019.
I'm going to take
To Win:
Kris Wright +1750
Todd Gililand +2700
Matt Crafton +2200
and one H2H: Todd Gililand over Tyler Ankrum -115.
Model likes Busch brothers- both traditionally crush here, maybe Kenseth as a value play depending how salaries stack up. Mixing in some Truex, Harvick, and Hamlin accordingly. Considering Bell and Custer for value and also going to see any price fluctuations on the #3 car.
Between baseball, football and US open this week don't think I'll be on Nascar but GL in the big contest. I'm sure TheChart + tout-fade knowledge is still the right way to play it.
I've been using the chart on twitter and we went on some crazy 55-20 run over a couple of weeks. Also nailed 4 winners at huge odds. Almost undoes all the horrible stuff that went on early in this thread lol
Gotta have Brad too.
Chase is the toss up. Do we trust Kyle? Blaney is great here until he hits a wall.
PReece should be good too but worried he's starting so far forward (22nd).
Nemechek should be good too starting 31st. Newman 25th, but him and Buescher are really struggling recently. The team sucks.
We won our seat at Bristol with Bubba and he's done nothing since.
JJ 24th should be a lock but maybe fade him for leverage? I know I'm going to overanalyze this **** and end up in last leveling myself
was going logano/kyle/bowyer/jimmie/buescher/nemechek
all week
about 10 mins before the race i switched to team leverage
with stenhouse, truex, jj yeley
it was such a horrible decision. stenhouse crashes on lap 20. truex is horrible like he always is at bristol. i didn't want to win apparently. i literally have no idea why i did it. was just sitting there waiting for it to start and i clicked it and started changing. not even looking at my notes or projections. just clicking random names
original lineup would have gotten top 3. think we got dead last lol