Daily Fantasy NASCAR Preview & Picks for DraftKings and FanDuel - EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix @ Circuit of the Americas Chris Durell will be bringing you his weekly race breakdown, top trends, and top targets to help you cash on DraftKings and FanDuel. He also provides a comprehensive cheatsheet looking at current and career track history, current form, fantasy averages, trends, practice/qualifying information, and then puts it all together with a customizable model. Get your copy by visiting our "Chris's DFS Sheets" page. Premium DFSR members get access to my expert sheets as a part of their membership. That's a $10 value every single month, just for signing up for a DFSR membership! Want my sheets on their own? Head on over to my Patreon Page. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA, NHL, PGA, NFL, & MLB optimizers and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix Track name - Circuit of the Americas  Track - 3.140 Mile Road Course Total Turns - 20 2021 Road Course Winners: Charlotte Road - Kyle Larson(started 10th) Indy Road - A.J. Allmendinger(started 8th) Watkins Glen - Kyle Larson(started 4th) Road America - Chase Elliott(started 34th) Sonoma - Kyle Larson(started 1st)  Circuit of the Americas - Chase Elliott(started 8th) Daytona Road - Christopher Bell(started 12th) If I was a betting man(*giggles), I would say NASCAR is very pleased with the start of the 2022 season as a brand new hybrid Atlanta produced a fifth different winner on the season. The series now heads to Circuit of the Americas as the NextGen car will be debuted at its first road course race of the season. Last year was COTA's debut in NASCAR and it saw the series' top road course racer, Chase Elliott, take home the checkered flag and the race produced almost double the passing of any of the six road courses used last season. For fantasy, while track position is always important at a road course, we can't ignore the possibility of multiple drivers tallying double-digit place differential and thus pushing into the optimal lineups. At the end of the day, however, it comes down to qualifying which comes right after the 50-minute practice session. Stay tuned to the cheatsheet for updates along with my final targets and rankings in my player pool. Then join me on YouTube channel Sunday morning for my raceday live show at 12:30 pm ET. With all that said, let's now take a look at some early targets based on early-season success, track history, and road course history. Targets Chase Elliott/Kyle Larson It would...

Daily Fantasy NASCAR Preview & Picks for DraftKings and FanDuel - Ruoff Mortgage 500 @ Phoenix Raceway Chris Durell will be bringing you his weekly race breakdown, top trends, and top targets to help you cash on DraftKings and FanDuel. He also provides a comprehensive cheatsheet looking at current and career track history, current form, fantasy averages, trends, practice/qualifying information, and then puts it all together with a customizable model. Get your copy by visiting our "Chris's DFS Sheets" page. Premium DFSR members get access to my expert sheets as a part of their membership. That's a $10 value every single month, just for signing up for a DFSR membership! Want my sheets on their own? Head on over to my Patreon Page. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA, NHL, PGA, NFL, & MLB optimizers and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! Track Information Phoenix Raceway  Track - 1.022 Mile Tri-Oval Short Track 11° of Banking in Turns 1 & 2 9° of Banking in Turn 3 & 4 Last Six Winners at Phoenix 2021 Championship Race - Kyle Larson(started 1st) 2021 Spring Race - Martin Truex Jr(started 5th) 2020 Championship Race - Chase Elliott(started 1st) 2020 Spring Race - Joey Logano(started 13th) 2019 Playoff Race - Denny Hamlin(started 3rd) 2019 Spring Race - Kyle Busch(started 4th) This week NASCAR heads to Phoenix Raceway for the fourth race of the season and fifth different track type for the new car(counting the Clash @ the Coliseum). This is also a huge week for teams and their notebooks as this will be the third straight season with Phoenix raceway hosting the Championship Race. The track is a 1.022-mile Tri-Oval short track with 11 degrees of banking in turns 1 & 2 and 9 degrees of banking in turns 3 & 4. Also of note, when breaking down track history, is that the track was reconstructed after the spring race in 2018 with the start/finish line being moved from the backstretch to the entry of the dogleg(old turn 2). One thing that hasn't changed over the years at Phoenix is the importance of track position as it ranks 1st, 1st, 4th in my model looking at the correlation of qualifying positon and finishing position over the last 2, 5, and 10 races at all tracks. The only race that has seen a correlation under .500 since the reconfiguration was the first race after which was the playoff race in 2018 and it was insane with six accidents including nine cars. When looking at dominator points, there have been multiple drivers to...

Daily Fantasy NASCAR Preview & Picks for DraftKings and FanDuel - Pennzoil 400 Chris Durell will be bringing you his weekly race breakdown, top trends, and top targets to help you cash on DraftKings and FanDuel. He also provides a comprehensive cheatsheet looking at current and career track history, current form, fantasy averages, trends, practice/qualifying information, and then puts it all together with a customizable model. Get your copy by visiting our "Chris's DFS Sheets" page. Premium DFSR members get access to my expert sheets as a part of their membership. That's a $10 value every single month, just for signing up for a DFSR membership! Want my sheets on their own? Head on over to my Patreon Page. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA, NHL, PGA, NFL, & MLB optimizers and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! Pennzoil 400 Las Vegas Motor Speedway Track Type - 1.5 Mile D-Shaped Oval Intermediate 20° of Banking Last 10 Winners at Las Vegas 2021(2) - Denny Hamlin(started 6th) 2021(1) - Kyle Larson(started 3rd) 2020(2) - Kurt Busch(started 9th) 2020(1) - Joey Logano(started 5th) 2019(2) - Martin Truex Jr(started 24th) 2019(1) - Joey Logano(started 10th) 2018(2) - Brad Keselowski(started 13th) 2018(1) - Kevin Harvick(started 2nd) 2017 - Martin Truex Jr(started 2nd) 2016 - Brad Keselowski(started 4th) We are now into week three of the season and as anticipated, we are already seeing changes and that is where we will start this week. NASCAR is now headed to it's fourth different track(including the Coliseum) and as they figure things out track time is going to be key. This is where the biggest change comes in as instead of the 15-minute group practices this week in Las Vegas, teams will all practice together in a 35-minute session before then breaking into two groups for single-car qualifying. Las Vegas Motor Speedway has been on the schedule since 1998 and adopted a second race back in 2018. The track is a 1.5-mile D-shaped oval with 20 degrees of progressive banking and 1st in my quality pass metric when looking at mile and a half tracks. Whether that continues with the new car remains to be seen but Fontana saw its second-most quality passes over the last 10 races there so I am positive we see a good race in Sin City. I have also put together a track position importance research tool for 2022 which pretty much looks at the correlation from starting position to finishing position. Las Vegas ranks #1 when looking at mile and a half tracks and #2 overall in terms of...

Daily Fantasy NASCAR Preview & Picks for DraftKings and FanDuel - Wise Power 400 @ Auto Club Speedway Chris Durell will be bringing you his weekly race breakdown, top trends, and top targets to help you cash on DraftKings and FanDuel. He also provides a comprehensive cheatsheet looking at current and career track history, current form, fantasy averages, trends, practice/qualifying information, and then puts it all together with a customizable model. Get your copy by visiting our "Chris's DFS Sheets" page. Premium DFSR members get access to my expert sheets as a part of their membership. That's a $10 value every single month, just for signing up for a DFSR membership! Want my sheets on their own? Head on over to my Patreon Page. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA, NHL, PGA, NFL, & MLB optimizers and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! Track Information Auto Club Speedway  Track Type - Two-Mile Oval 14° of Banking Last Six Winners at Auto Club Speedway 2020 - Alex Bowman(started 3rd) 2019 - Kyle Busch(started 4th) 2018 - Martin Truex Jr.(started 1st) 2017 - Kyle Larson(started 1st) 2016 - Jimmie Johnson(started 19th) After a jam-packed week in Daytona, the NASCAR Cup Series heads back West for a three-week stretch that starts at Auto Club Speedway for the Wise Power 400. The track is a two-mile D-shaped oval that I categorize with Michigan in my track type database with the only real difference between the two being the banking as Michigan is slightly steeper at 18 degrees. Both tracks are high on the driver's list and it comes down to speed and the fact there are multiple lanes to try and generate speed. Combine all that with the new NextGen car and we should get another exciting race on Sunday. While we were blessed with four practices for the Daytona 500 last week, things are somewhat rushed and shortened here in Cali this week. This will mark the start of the new practice and qualifying structure in place for the 2022 season. Before we go any further let's have a look at how it will play out. Qualifying position has proven to be very important here at Fontana as displayed above with the winner coming from a Top 5 starting position in four straight years including from the pole twice. Looking at it from an entire field perspective, Auto Club Speedway has also posted one of the highest correlations from start to finish of all tracks in the series(can find this data on my NASCAR sheet). Despite needing qualifying data to finalize...

Daily Fantasy NASCAR Preview & Picks for DraftKings and FanDuel - Daytona 500 Chris Durell will be bringing you his weekly race breakdown, top trends, and top targets to help you cash on DraftKings and FanDuel. He also provides a comprehensive cheatsheet looking at current and career track history, current form, fantasy averages, trends, practice/qualifying information, and then puts it all together with a customizable model. Get your copy by visiting our "Chris's DFS Sheets" page. Premium DFSR members get access to my expert sheets as a part of their membership. That's a $10 value every single month, just for signing up for a DFSR membership! Want my sheets on their own? Head on over to my Patreon Page. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA, NHL, PGA, NFL, & MLB optimizers and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! Daytona 500 Track → Daytona International Speedway Track Type → 2.5 Mile Superspeedway Banking → 31º in all turns Last 10 Winners at Daytona 2021 Summer → Ryan Blaney 2021 Daytona 500 → Michael McDowell 2020 Summer → William Byron 2020 Daytona 500 → Denny Hamlin 2019 Summer → Justin Haley 2019 Daytona 500 → Denny Hamlin 2018 Summer → Erik Jones 2018 Daytona 500 → Austin Dillon 2017 Summer → Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 2017 Daytona 500 → Kurt Busch Welcome back race fans. While the 2022 season gets underway at Daytona this upcoming week, we got a glimpse into the new NextGen car last week at the Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum. There will definitely be some tweaks throughout the season and the race was on a unique one-off track but man I was impressed with what I saw in the racing. Now, with points on the line, we will find out how the new cars perform on one of the most famous tracks in the world, Daytona International Speedway. With the rolling out of the NextGen car this season, that also brings back weekly practice and qualifying. Before we go any further, let's take a look at how that plays out at different tracks. While having practice and qualifying back for the entire season is very exciting, the Daytona 500 continues to have its own unique setup. It starts with two practice sessions on Tuesday, February 15 followed by single-car qualifying on Wednesday, February 16. That qualifying session will only set the front row for the big race with the remainder of the starting positions being set by the two Duel races on Thursday evening. All qualified drivers and teams will then get two more practice sessions(Friday...