Daily Fantasy NASCAR Race Preview & Picks for DraftKings - Quaker State 400 DFSR is proud to bring you Chris Durell. He'll be bringing weekly NASCAR picks, analysis, a FREE cheatsheet and weekly video to help you cash on DraftKings. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB optimizer and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with MLB? Be sure to read our free MLB Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered.   Quaker State 400 Kentucky Speedway - Sparta, KY Track - 1.5 Mile D-Shaped Oval Intermediate(14° of Banking) It was a wild and crazy race at Daytona that saw half the field hit the garage early due to crashes. That included a ton of big names like the Busch brothers, Keselowski, Larson, Johnson, Harvick, Elliott, Almirola, Hamlin, Logano, and Blaney to name a few. The highlight of the race, at least for me, was seeing Erik Jones pass and hold off Martin Truex Jr. for his first career win. I had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing him at the Daytona 500 media day and he is not only a great driver but a great person as well. For fantasy, if you played it contrarian last week and I mean "contrarian" you likely came out way ahead. Looking at the winning lineup from the $3 Slingshot on DraftKings, Erik Jones($8,100) was the highest priced driver in that lineup and there was $14,300 left over in salary. Whoa!! Let this be a lesson for the next plate race at Talladega. This week the Monster Energy Cup Series head to Kentucky Speedway for the Quaker State 400 and for the second straight week the race will be under the lights on Saturday night. The Cup series has only been racing here since 2011 and with just one race per season here, there is somewhat limited data which has me leaning on the track type data a little more this week. It is the seventh 1.5-mile intermediate race of the season and as you will see below, they have been dominated by Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick who have split them with three wins apiece. For fantasy, we are back concentrating on dominator points as there has been at least one driver lead 100 or more laps in each of the seven races here and two or more drivers to lead 50 or more laps in all but two races here. With that let's jump in and take a look at the track trends and some pre-qualifying targets. Last Six Winners at Kentucky Speedway...

Daily Fantasy NASCAR Race Preview & Picks for DraftKings - Coke Zero Sugar 400 DFSR is proud to bring you Chris Durell. He'll be bringing weekly NASCAR picks, analysis, a FREE cheatsheet and weekly video to help you cash on DraftKings. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB optimizer and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with MLB? Be sure to read our free MLB Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered.   Coke Zero Sugar 400 Daytona International Speedway - Daytona Beach, FL Track - 2.5 Mile Superspeedway(Restrictor Plate) Welcome back races fans. It was a very exciting finish last week in Chicago where Kyle Larson and Kyle Busch played bumper tag on the final lap with Busch eventually coming out on top to pick up his fifth win of the season. Through six races on the mile and a half tracks, Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch have split the wins down the middle each with three on the season. This week the Monster Energy Cup Series heads back to Daytona International Speedway for the Coke Zero Sugar 400 this Saturday night. It is the third restrictor plate race of the season and first since Talladega back at the end of April. As we discussed in the past, the strategy is a little different at a plate race than others. With the race only having 160 laps plus the many lead changes due to drafting, the importance of dominator points is greatly reduced. The biggest thing we will be looking for this week is place differential as 10 or more drivers have tallied double-digit place differential in five of the last six races here at Daytona(nine in the other). The other thing we can look at from a strategy standpoint is stacking teammates or cars from the same manufacturer as they tend to work together in the draft. With all that said, let's jump in and take a look at some race trends and some pre-qualifying targets. Then stay tuned as my DFS NASCAR Cheatsheet will be updated through practices and qualifying and I will be posting my top picks for the race. Last Six Winners at Daytona 2018 Daytona 500 - Austin Dillon(started 14th) 2017 Coke Zero 400 - Ricky Stenhouse Jr.(started 6th) 2017 Daytona 500 - Kurt Busch(started 8th) 2016 Coke Zero 400 - Brad Keselowski(started 5th) 2016 Daytona 500 - Denny Hamlin(started 11th) 2015 Coke Zero 400 - Dale Earnhardt Jr.(started 1st) Top 5 Current Track History at Daytona Bubba Wallace has only raced here twice in...

Daily Fantasy NASCAR Race Preview & Picks for DraftKings - Overton's 400 DFSR is proud to bring you Chris Durell. He'll be bringing weekly NASCAR picks, analysis, a FREE cheatsheet and weekly video to help you cash on DraftKings. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB optimizer and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with MLB? Be sure to read our free MLB Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered.   Overton's 400 Chicagoland Speedway - Joliet, IL Track - 1.5 Mile D-Shaped Oval Intermediate It was an excellent road course race at Sonoma where Martin Truex Jr. and crew chief Cole Pearn faked out the competition with pit strategy and eventually picked up the win. It was the #78 team's third checkered flag of the season cementing the three-horse race in the standings as he, Kevin Harvick, and Kyle Busch have won 12 of the first 16 races of the season. This week the Monster Energy Cup Series heads to Chicagoland Speedway for the Overton's 400 this Sunday afternoon. After spending each of the last seven years as the first race of the playoffs, Chicago returns to a familiar July date where it spent the previous 10 years since it opened in 2001. The track is a 1.5-mile D-Shaped Oval Intermediate track which gives us lots of track type data to go on this week. Martin Truex Jr. has won back to back races here and track position has proved to be key in both those races as eight and six drivers who finished Top 10 started Top 10 with just three drivers in those two races combined picked up double-digit place differential. Even with 267 laps in the race, there have been just three drivers over the last six races to lead 100 or more laps so multiple dominators will be the target this week as two or more drivers have led 50 or laps in five of the last six races. Let's now jump in and take a look at some track trends and pre-qualifying targets and stay tuned for my final picks posted on my cheatsheet and in my weekly video. Last Six Winners at Chicagoland Speedway 2017 - Martin Truex Jr.(started 3rd, led 77 laps) 2016 - Martin Truex Jr.(started 6th, led 32 laps) 2015 - Denny Hamlin(started 29th, led 9 laps) 2014 - Brad Keselowski(started 25th, led 62 laps) 2013 - Matt Kenseth(started 10th, led 89 laps) 2012 - Brad Keselowski(started 13th, led 76 laps) Top 5 Current Track History at Chicagoland Speedway As I...

Daily Fantasy NASCAR Race Preview & Picks for DraftKings - Toyota/Save Mart 350 DFSR is proud to bring you Chris Durell. He'll be bringing weekly NASCAR picks, analysis, a FREE cheatsheet and weekly video to help you cash on DraftKings. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB optimizer and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with MLB? Be sure to read our free MLB Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered.   Toyota/Save Mart 350 Sonoma Raceway - Sonoma, CA Track - 1.99 Mile Road Course After a week off, the Monster Energy Cup Series returns to the track this week for the first road course race of the season at Sonoma Raceway. There are now three road courses in the series but all have their differences as Watkins Glen is more of a speedway with higher speeds while Sonoma is the more technical of the two and as they haven't raced the "Roval" at Charlotte yet, we are unsure how it will race yet. For the most part, experienced drivers are the ones who do best on these tracks and the days of the "road course ringers" have come and gone. From a fantasy perspective, there are only 110 laps in this race and with different strategies, especially with the new stage racing, dominator points are downgraded this week. No driver has led 50 or more laps in any of the last four races here with anywhere between two and four drivers leading 20 or more laps in those races. Place differential is the going to be something we will concentrate highly for building our core this week as there were seven drivers last year to record double-digit place differential and as many as 14 to do so in the 2015 race. Track position is key as there have been five or more drivers who have started inside the Top 10 finish there in four of the last six races. Qualifying, as always, will play a big role so stay tuned for the updates on my cheatsheet and final picks video posted below when final practice is complete. Let's jump in and take a look at some race trends and pre-qualifying picks. Last Six Winners at Sonoma Raceway 2017 - Kevin Harvick(started 12th, led 24 laps) 2016 - Tony Stewart(started 10th, led 22 laps) 2015 - Kyle Busch(started 11th, led 17 laps) 2014 - Carl Edwards(started 4th, led 26 laps) 2013 - Martin Truex Jr.(started 14th, led 51 laps) 2012 - Clint Bowyer(started 6th, led 71 laps) Top 5 Current...

Daily Fantasy NASCAR Race Preview & Picks for DraftKings - Iowa 250 Chris Durell will be bringing you weekly NASCAR Xfinity picks, analysis, a FREE cheatsheet to help you cash on DraftKings. Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our MLB optimizer and our new player lab! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! First time with MLB? Be sure to read our free MLB Ebooks on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered.   Iowa 250 Iowa Speedway - Newton, IA Track - .875 Mile Short Track Hello race fans and welcome back for another week of daily fantasy NASCAR. The Monster Energy Cup Series takes a week off this week before heading to Sonoma Raceway next weekend but don't worry as we have some exciting Xfinity series racing to keep us going. Adding to the excitement is the fact there will be no Cup drivers in this week's race which keeps the salaries tighter together at the top and creates a much better lineup construction process. This week the Xfinity Series heads to Iowa Speedway for the Iowa 250 which will take place on Sunday evening starting at 5:00 p.m. ET. The track is a .875-mile short track and the series visits here twice a year which is nice when looking for statistics as we have a nice sample size of data to go through on the sheet. Looking at that data, the first thing that stood out to me is that each of the last six winners have come from a starting position of 6th or better and three times from the front row. Dominator points will be key as there has been at least one(two in the last race) driver to lead 100 or more laps and four times it was the winner of the race. Place differential is largely dependant on qualifying but for the most part, it has been irrelevant here as only once there has been more than five drivers to pick up double-digit place differential and only twice have more than three done it. The other thing to keep in mind is that in the Xfinity Series they run same day qualifying and this week we will get a window of about an hour and a half following qualifying before lineup lock. Before getting into the pre-qualifying picks for this week let's take a look at the weekend schedule. Practice #1 - Saturday, June 16 @3:05 p.m. ET Practice #2 - Saturday, June 16 @5:40 p.m. ET Qualifying - Sunday, June 17 @2:35 p.m. ET Race - Sunday, June 17 @5:00 p.m. ET Last Six Winners at Iowa Speedway Ryan Preece(started 1st,...