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Welcome to the NASCAR DFS Pit Stop for the Xfinity series for the 2021 season! If you’ve been with us before then, you know the drill, but welcome if you are new to WinDaily Sports or my NASCAR content! I break down the field each week and give you my favorite plays for each race in three different price categories.
Make sure to 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/). You will notice that all pricing is for DraftKings in these articles since they are the only site with contests for all three series (Trucks, Xfinity, Cup) and the site I mainly play on. All plays in the Cup Series article will translate to FanDuel if that is where you play.
Stop me if you heard this before, this week the Xfinity Series is at a road course. This is the sixth time the Xfinity Series will be at a road course this season. Ty Gibbs ($10,300) is the only driver in this field with more than one victory at a road course this season (Kyle Busch has 2 as well). Austin Cindric ($10,500) has yet to win at a road course, so some would say he is due. Cindric has three top 5’s in the previous five road courses in 2021. Cindric and AJ Allmendinger ($10,400) are both pulling double duty and running both Xfinity and Cup Series races. Allmendinger has a victory at Mid-Ohio this season, and earlier this week AJ said that this track runs similar to Road America where he finished 4th and led 12 laps.
All three of these drivers are in play on Saturday, but they also will most likely be very popular so I am not looking to stack them together. After we see the qualifying results I will decide who I want to focus on building around and post that in discord. Since I think the strategy for most will be to jam in as many of Cindric/AJ/Gibbs as they can and get stuck with bad value drivers I want to go a different path.
NASCAR DFS: Dominators
Justin Haley ($9,400)
Single Lap Practice Rank: 3rd
Haley is a driver who tends to run well at road courses but gets overlooked for the “bigger” names. Since 2020, Haley has two top 5’s and six top 10’s in nine road course races. At this track, last season Haley finished 2nd after starting 11th and this season at Road America he finished 10th. Haley was at the top of the leaderboard for a good portion of Friday’s practice session and depending on where he qualifies could present some great value on Saturday.
Kevin Harvick ($10,100)
Single Lap Practice Rank: 4th
Harvick has run two races this season in the Xfinity Series (both road courses) and has finished 4th and 6th respectively. At Road America, Harvick came home 6th after starting 20th. In Friday’s practice, Harvick ran only 12 laps but did have the 4th fastest lap which came at the end of his session which bodes well for the long-run ability of this car. We should see a lot of long runs in this race based on last year where there were only three cautions outside of the stage breaks.
Sam Mayer ($9,000)
Single Lap Practice Rank: 2nd
Mayer was really happy with his car after practice and I am not surprised seeing as he was less than two tenths off the top practice lap. Mayer has run two road courses (both in 2021) in the Xfinity Series and has one top ten (last week). At Road America, Mayer was running well at the start, but got caught up in a wreck on lap 12 and was done. If Mayer’s car is as good as it looked in practice we should easily see a second straight top 10 this week.
NASCAR DFS: Mid Tier
Alex Labbe ($7,200)
Single Lap Practice Rank: 10th
Labbe is someone we regularly turn to for road courses and he rarely disappoints. Last season at Indianapolis RC, Labbe finished 8th after starting 20th. Labbe did not have a good week last week (39th), but if you take that finish out he has an average finish of 18.5 in the other four road course races this season. If Labbe’s car can live up to the top 10 practice speed he could find himself in the optimal lineup.
Jeb Burton ($7,700)
Single Lap Practice Rank: 8th
Before this season Jeb Burton has never had a top 10 in the Xfinity Series at a road course, this season he has three in five races. Kaulig Racing has one of the best road course programs in the series and it shows how good they are with Burton’s finishes this season. Last week Burton drove himself to an 8th place finish at Watkins Glen and with the speed he showed on practice on Friday I expect a fourth top 10 this week.
Andy Lally ($8,300)
Single Lap Practice Rank: 20th
Lally is a road course ringer and has run four races this season with an average finish of 16.8. That number is skewed a little by his 31st place finish at the Daytona Road Course. If you take out that poor finish Lally has an average finish of 12th. Lally did not look great in practice, but depending on where he qualifies he could be a solid play.
Other Options: JJ Yeley ($7,400), Austin Dillon ($8,700), Michael Annett ($8,100)
NASCAR DFS: Value Tier Rankings
- Sage Karam ($6,800)
- Brandon Brown ($5,200)
- Will Rodgers ($5,500)
- Jeremy Clements ($6,300)
- Kyle Weatherman ($4,500)
- Matt Jaskol ($5,400)
- Josh Williams ($4,900)
- Josh Bilicki ($6,900)
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