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Welcome to the NASCAR DFS Pit Stop for Saturday night’s Truck Series race from Texas Motor Speedway! Like with the Xfinity Series earlier in the day on Saturday we have another race with Kyle Busch “invading” this race. Busch is priced high, as usual, at $16,000 Saturday night and should dominate this race.
Saturday night’s race has 147 laps meaning we have 110 dominator points try and earn in this race. Kyle Busch should lead the majority of the laps in this race starting from P4. I want to focus on finding good place differential plays to pair with Kyle to try and maximize our point totals for this race.
This race was an unmitigated disaster last year, to say the least. We had 13 cautions with 14 drivers scoring DNF’s. Because of this, we had drivers like Jennifer Jo Cobb ($5,600) and Norm Benning ($5,700) finish inside the top 20. There are a few punts I will be using in my lineups in hopes we get a similar race this year and these drivers find their way up to the middle of the pack.
NASCAR DFS: Dominators
Kyle Busch: $16,000
Starting Position: 4th
Like with the Xfinity Series earlier in the day, Kyle Busch is the top overall play. While we are using Busch as a place differential/dominator play in the NXS, we are using Busch here as a pure dominator. Greg Biffle took this truck to victory lane in 2019 and its a pretty safe bet that Kyle Busch will do the same and potentially lead 100 laps in this race.
Ross Chastain: $11,500
Starting Position: 24th
Here is the first place differential play of the night with Ross Chastain. We know Chastain is great in the Truck Series and I do not see him sitting back in the back for too long. Like we did with Busch in the Xfinity Series, we are using a Chastain as a potential dominator/place differential play. Chastain has back to back top 10’s at Texas and almost certainly add a 3rd straight on Saturday night.
Justin Haley: $10,500
Starting Position: 13th
Justin Haley is the 3rd driver of 3 I’ve written up pulling the double on Saturday and he may be a low owned play. Haley has raced here at Texas 4 times in the Truck Series never finishing lower than 6th, including a win his last time here in 2018. Justin Haley has also led 61 laps in his 4 races here as well. This is the same Truck that Chase Elliott driver to victory back in Charlotte earlier this season and Haley will attempt to push Kyle Busch for the victory Saturday night.
Other Options: Johnny Sauter ($10,900 – P21), Brett Moffitt ($9,700 – P8)
NASCAR DFS: Mid Tier
Spencer Davis: $9,100
Starting Position: 19th
Davis is not one of the top overall plays, and if you are playing cash games I wouldn’t put him in your lineup, but he is a good GPP play with some decent upside. In his only race at Texas Motor Speedway, Davis did finish 9th while leading 7 laps. In his last 3 races, Davis has finishes of 13th, 18th, and 14th but he is starting higher than he has in of those races.
Stewart Friesen: $8,900
Starting Position: 18th
Coming into this race last year Friesen had a string of 3 straight top 10 finishes at Texas, but he had suspension issues and ended up 20th. Friesen is a truck that I can see finishing in the top 5 if everything breaks his way, and a top 10 is almost a certainty in my eyes.
Christian Eckes: $8,300
Starting Position: 7th
I expect to see Christian Eckes running up front with car owner/teammate Kyle Busch most of the night on Saturday. With the exception of him wrecking out in Pocono, Eckes has three top 10’s in his last 4 races (3rd,6th, and 8th). While the 19-year-old has not driven a Truck here at Texas he does have good finishes on similar tracks, like last week in Kentucky when he came home 6th.
Other Options: Ben Rhodes ($8,700 P10), Tyler Ankrum ($8,500 P9)
NASCAR DFS: Value Tier Rankings
Tate Fogleman ($6,100) is my favorite of the value play in this race. On the season Fogleman has two top 20 finishes and four top 25 finishes with a season average of 25.1. Fogleman is starting this race at the lowest he has started any race this season and has the most upside in my opinion of any value driver in this race.
Value Tier Rankings:
- Tate Folgeman ($6,100 – P31)
- Tanner Gray ($7,300 – P20)
- Cory Roper ($5,500 – P30)
- Norm Benning ($5,700 – P36)
- Derek Kraus ($6,300 – P17)
- Brennan Poole ($6,800 – P29)
- Jennifer Jo Cobb ($5,600 – P35)
- Jordan Anderson ($6,600 – P28)
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