Richard Masana 
Welcome to the NASCAR DFS Pit Stop weekend preview for Kansas! This week the Cup and Trucks Series head to Kansas Speedway for the first time in 2022. This is the first true 1.5-mile tri-oval since the March 4-6th races at Las Vegas. Kansas is one of the NASCAR-owned tracks built-in 2001 during the track building boom in the late ’90s.
The Truck Series will be racing Saturday night this weekend while the cup Series will take to the track on Sunday afternoon. Qualifying and practice for the Truck Series will be early in the afternoon on Saturday, followed but the Cup Series P&Q at 5 pm eastern. My article for the truck race will be out after qualifying on Saturday and the Cup article will be out Sunday morning.
NASCAR DFS: Truck Series
Laps: 134 (93.8 dominator points)
Previous Winner: Kyle Busch
DraftKings did well with the Trucks Series pricing this week, at least with the top tier. Nemechek, Zane Smith, and Rhodes are the highest-priced drivers and are the best in the series. Riley Herbst ($9,000) will be in the #17 for DGR and in my opinion, is underpriced. Herbst drove this truck to a 12th place finish at Daytona and Ryan Preece has three top 10’s in the truck in 2022.
We also have six drivers at or under $5K so that will be key to getting exposure to 2 of the top three drivers into your lineups. With only 93.8 dominator points it will not be necessary to get 3 top tier drivers, but that doesn’t mean we can’t. I believe that we will be looking at a more balanced build this week as opposed to the stars and scrubs approach we used last weekend.
NASCAR DFS: Cup Series
Laps: 267 (186.9 Dominator Points)
Previous Winner: Kyle Larson
Last fall at Kansas, Kyle Larson dominated this race on his way to victory. This week, Larson is the highest priced driver on DraftKings, but there is a good chance he is a complete fade. This team has not been good this season, at all. I feel that paying down in the top tier may be the best course of action on Sunday. Another thing to look at this weekend is the potential payback coming from Byron to Logano. This is probably unlikely to happen and we will need to look at what is said during the weekend leading up to the race.
Looking over the salaries again, there are a few drivers in the low $8K to mid $7K range that appear underpriced, again. One of those being Aric Almirola. Before last season where he finished mid 20’s, Almirola has six finishes of 13th or better in the previous 7 races. Almirola is having a great season in his final full-time Cup season and should be a good low end mid tier play on Sunday.
Check out my NASCAR DFS Tutorial to make sure you are ready and understand how I break down the races and build lineups (https://windailysports.com/nascar-dfs-pit-stop-2021-introduction-to-nascar-dfs/).
There were a lot of changes in the cars and what driver is in what car/truck in 2022. Check out my What’s new in 2022 article (https://windailysports.com/nascar-dfs-whats-new-in-2022/)
