Daily Fantasy NASCAR Race Preview - FireKeepers Casino 400 DFSR is proud to bring you Chris Durell. He'll be bringing weekly NASCAR picks, analysis and breakdowns to help you cash on DraftKings. Playing other DFS sports? Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA optimizer, NBA Player Lab and our basic NHL projections! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! Want to learn some about NBA? Be sure to read our free NBA Ebook on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered.   FireKeepers Casino 400 Michigan International Speedway - Brooklyn, MI Track - 2 Mile D Shaped Oval Intermediate 18° of Banking in the Corner Another race, another first-time winner. It was a huge weekend in Pocono last Sunday as Ryan Blaney picked up his first career victory in the Cup series and 99th for Wood Brothers Racing and their first since the Daytona 500 in 2011. Blaney didn't just cruise to victory either as he had to make a tough pass on Kyle Busch who was blocking hard and then he had to hold off Kevin Harvick(the closer) for five laps. I would say he has more than earned his stripes! That now marks the 10th different driver to make it victory lane this season in just 14 races That is now 10 different drivers to record a win in 14 races and the most shocking thing is that there are some big names that have yet to reach Victory Lane in 2017. Names like Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Matt Kenseth, Chase Elliott, and Jamie McMurray to name a few. With Joey Logano's encumbered win at Richmond, he actually sits in the last spot above the cutline just a few points ahead of Kenseth with some other big names behind him. No need for any of these teams to panic yet as we now have 12 races remaining in the regular season before the Playoffs begin but expect the drivers without that win to push a little harder at the end of each stage to gain as many points as possible. We are in for some good racing. This week the Monster Energy Cup series travels to Michigan International Speedway for the FireKeepers 400. Michigan is two-mile D-Shaped Oval much like Auto Club Speedway but much faster as there is right around four degrees more banking here at MIS. Looking at the cheatsheet and the last six races here, we quickly see that qualifying and starting up front is the key. Three times in the last six races the winner came from the pole position and only Kyle Larson last...

Daily Fantasy NASCAR Race Preview - Pocono 400 DFSR is proud to bring you Chris Durell. He'll be bringing weekly NASCAR picks, analysis and breakdowns to help you cash on DraftKings. Playing other DFS sports? Now’s your chance to get DFSR PRO, which will give you access to our NBA optimizer, NBA Player Lab and our basic NHL projections! Get started for free by clicking the button below. START YOUR FREE TRIAL NOW! Want to learn some about NBA? Be sure to read our free NBA Ebook on building lineups, general strategy and more. We've got you completely covered.   Pocono 400 Pocono Raceway - Long Pond, PA Track - 2.5 Mile Tri-Oval Superspeedway 6°-14° of Banking in the Corner Welcome back for another week of daily fantasy NASCAR. Let's recap last week before moving on to Pocono. Last week's win was the 83rd of Jimmie Johnson's Hall of Fame career, tying him with Cale Yarborough for sixth on the all-time list. That puts him just one win behind Darrell Waltrip and Bobby Allison and just 10 back of Jeff Gordon for third. Last week's win was the 83rd of Jimmie Johnson's Hall of Fame career, tying him with Cale Yarborough for sixth on the all-time list. That puts him just one win behind Darrell Waltrip and Bobby Allison and just 10 back of Jeff Gordon for third. Enjoy it up there in third while you can Jeff, Jimmie is coming. This week the Monster Energy Cup series travels to Pocono Raceway, better known as the "Tricky Triangle" for its unique setup. As you probably already guessed by the nickname Pocono is made up of three corners and the unique part is that each corner is different from one another. The biggest challenge for the crew chief is working on a setup for the car that balances out and works well in all corners. It is definitely a week to pay close attention to all practices. For fantasy purposes, it is going to be to balancing act between place differential and dominator points. First of all, there are only 160 laps available to lead and with the new stages and pit strategies, we are most likely going to see multiple drivers lead 20+ laps. Place differential isn't going to be as easy as it appears either. Looking at the cheatsheet and the last three years results, we see that no more than two drivers have finished inside the top 10 who started outside of the top 20. Also, all but once in those six races, at least five drivers who started inside the top 10 finished there. This puts even more emphasis on practice and qualifying so stay tuned for my post practice/qualifying video...